When are Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Chung Yeung Festival? What is the meaning of each?

Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of May in the Gregorian calendar. Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November every year. Chung Yeung Festival is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

Mother's Day is a holiday to thank mothers. Mothers usually receive gifts on this day. Carnations are regarded as flowers dedicated to mothers, while the Chinese mother flower is the daylily, also known as the forget-me-not.

Father's Day, as the name suggests, is a holiday to give thanks to fathers. The world's first Father's Day, born in the United States in 1910, was advocated by Mrs. Bruce Dodd, who lived in Spokane, Washington, U.S.A. Mrs. Dodd's mother died in childbirth during the birth of her sixth child.

Thanksgiving Day, a traditional Western holiday, is a holiday created uniquely by the people of the United States, and is also a holiday for Americans to get together as a family. In addition to the United States and Canada, there are Egypt, Greece and other countries in the world that have their own unique Thanksgiving Day, but the United Kingdom, France and other European countries are insulated from Thanksgiving Day. Some scholars have also advocated the establishment of a "Chinese Thanksgiving Day" to promote traditional culture.

The Chongyang Festival, nine nine suns to honor the elderly, in addition to the must go home, of course, there is filial piety to Mom and Dad, in the country's vigorously promote the Chongyang Festival is more and more by the attention of society as a whole.