2023年父亲节和母亲节的由来.docx

2023年父亲节和母亲节的由来 ORIGIN OF MOTHER'S DAY The second Sunday in May has been set aside in honor of motherhood.Many churches have special services in which they honor Mothers of the congregation.They usually present the oldest Mom, youngest Mom, and Mom with the most children a corsage. There is a custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day.A colored carnation means that the person's Mother is living.A white carnation indicates that a person's mom is dead. Years ago, England observed what they called Mothering Sunday.It came in Mid-Lent. The first suggestion for a day set aside to honor Mothers was made by Julia Ward Howe.She suggested that it be observed on June 2, as a day dedicated to peace. Julia was born in 1819 in New York to a prominent family.She was an American writer, lecturer, and reformer.She was known as one of the most famous women of her time.She wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", which was inspired when she visited military camps in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War in 1861.It became the major war song of the Union forces. Julia became interested in the women's movement.She became the first president of the New England Woman Sufferage Aociation. Three years after Frank Hering of Indiana launched his campagin for observance of Mother's Day in 1904, Anna Jarvis began a campaign to a nationwide obervance of Mother's Day.She chose the second Sunday in May.She also began the custom of wearing the carnation. Jarvis' own Mother was honored on the first service at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton,West Virginia, on May 10, 1908.Later, at the general aembly in 1912, a delegate from Andrews Church introduced a resolution recognizing Jarvis as the founder of Mother's Day, and suggested that Mother's Day be observed on the second Sunday in May. President Woodrow Wilson signed a joint resolution in Congre on May 9, 1914, recommending that the federal government observe Mother's day.The next year, the president was authorized to proclaim an annual holiday. ORIGIN OF Father's Day The idea for an official Fathers Day celebration came to a married daughter, seated in a church in Spokane, Washington, attentive to a Sunday sermon on Mothers Day in 1910-two years after the first Mothers Day observance in West Virginia. The daughter was Mrs.Sonora Smart Dodd.During the sermon, which extolled maternal sacrifices made for children, Mrs.Dodd realized that in her own family it had been her father, William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran, who had sacrificed-raising herself and five sons alone, following the early death of his wife in childbirth.For Mrs.Dodd, the hardships her father had endured on their eastern Washington farm called to mind the unsung feats of fathers everywhere. Her proposed local Fathers Day celebration received strong support from the towns ministers and members of the Spokane YMCA.The date suggested for the festivities, June 5, Mrs.Dodds fathers birthdays were three weeks away-had to be moved back to the nineteenth when ministers claimed they need extra time to prepare sermons on such a new subject as Father. Newspapers acro the country, already endorsing the need for a national Mothers Day, carried stories about the unique Spokane observance.Interest in Fathers Day increased.Among the first notables to support Mrs.Dodds idea nationally was the orator and political leader William Jennings Bryan, who also backed Mothers Day.Believing that fathers must not be slighted, he wrote to Mrs.Dodd, "too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the relation between parent and child." Fathers Day, however, was not so quickly accepted as Mothers Day.Members of the all-male Congre felt that a move to proclaim the day official might be interpreted as a self-congratulatory pat on the back. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson and his family personally observed the day.And in 1924, President Calvin Coolidge recommended that states, if they wished, should hold their own Fathers Day observances.He wrote to the nations governors that "the widespread observance of this occasion is calculated to establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children, and also to impre upon fathers the full measure of their obligations." Many people attempted to secure official recognition for Fathers Day.One of the most notable efforts was made in 1957, by Senator Margaret Chase Smith, who wrote forcefully to Congre that "Either we honor both our parents, mother and father, or let us desist from honoring either one.But to single out just one of our two parents and omit the other is the most grievous insult imaginable." Eventually, in 1972-sixty-two years after it was proposed-Fathers Day was permanently established by President Richard Nixon.Historians seeking an ancient precedent for an official Fathers Day observance have come up with only one: The Romans, every February, honored fathers-but only those deceased. In America today, Fathers Day is the fifth-largest card-sending occasion, with about 85 million greeting cards exchanged. Panatis Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati / Paperback - 480 pages Reiue edition (September 1989) / HarperCollins Discover the fascinating stories behind the origins of over 500 everyday items, expreions and customs. 父亲节和母亲节的由来 父亲节和母亲节的由来 父亲节、母亲节 父亲节母亲节 母亲节,父亲节 母亲节和父亲节的来历 母亲节与父亲节 父亲节、母亲节通知 母亲节与父亲节 母亲节父亲节dinggao