The origin of Mother's Day and related customs

The holiday originated in ancient Greece. On this day, the ancient Greeks honored Hera, the mother of the Greek gods. In ancient Rome, the scale of these activities became larger, and the celebration often lasted up to three days. Of course, the worship of the goddess in ancient times was little more than a superstition, and it was very different from the honoring of motherhood today. In the mid-17th century, Mother's Day spread to England, where the fourth Sunday of Lent was celebrated as Mother's Day. On this day, young people who had been away from home would return home and bring small gifts to their mothers.

And the modern Mother's Day originated in the United States. A great woman in Philadelphia, the United States, Anna Jarvis's mother was kind-hearted and compassionate, she proposed that a memorial day should be set up to commemorate the silent dedication of mothers, but this wish has not yet been realized she died. 1906, May 9, Anna's mother died, she was y saddened.

On the anniversary of her mother's death the following year, Anna organized a memorial service for her mother (a traditional one-year memorial service for deceased relatives), but she realized that she missed her mother even more than she did when she was alive, and so she preached this idea and called on more people around her to love their mothers. Since then, she has lobbied everywhere and appealed to the community to call for a Mother's Day.

Many people give carnations to their mothers on Mother's Day, which originated in May 1934 when the United States issued its first commemorative Mother's Day stamp.