How do you spend the New Year in America? tradition

New Year's Day is one of the major festivals celebrated in American states. But in America, the New Year is far less lively than Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Americans celebrate the New Year. The most lively thing is New Year's Eve. That night, churches all over the country held grand worship activities. People gather in churches, streets or squares, singing poems, praying, wishing and regretting, and welcoming the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. At midnight, 12, church bells rang all over the country. The band played the famous nostalgic song bon voyage. In music, excited people hug and even strangers can kiss each other. In this way, people greet the New Year with farewell sadness and longing for a new life.

Indians in North America and their unique customs. Every year on New Year's Eve, they hold a unique "Spring Fire Party", where the whole family is shortlisted by the bonfire, singing and dancing, laughing and laughing. When the dawn came, they burned their worn-out clothes as a symbol of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

New Year's Eve activities often last until two or three o'clock the next morning. On New Year's Day, it is generally peaceful and idle. Many people get up late, then watch TV and have New Year's Eve dinner with family and friends.

Although New Year's Day is not the busiest day, there are still many states that hold celebrations with strong local colors. There is a rose club in California, which is the biggest New Year celebration in America. Seventy or eighty years ago, some club members in rural California decorated their wagons with flowers and held some small celebrations in the village during the citrus ripening season. Today, it has developed into a grand celebration of a ten-mile-long street covered with flowers. Fifty or sixty floats made entirely of flowers, especially roses, walked slowly for several miles, with models made of various flowers on them. This attracted not only men, women and children in California to fill the streets, but also millions of TV viewers.

In Philadelphia, there is a 10 hour costume parade. The origin of this activity can be traced back to the custom of Swedish and British immigrants who settled along the Delaware River in the middle of17th century. In those days, they always dressed up and held a New Year celebration parade in the countryside. Although today's costume parade in Philadelphia is more organized than in the past, it still retains its previous characteristics. People who took part in the parade, some dressed as clowns, some disguised as women (according to ancient customs, women were not allowed to take part in this kind of parade), accompanied by floats, singing and dancing, a sea of people, very lively. The number of participants is always around 1 10,000 to 20,000 every year.

In addition, many states hold football matches in the New Year. California, where flowers are in full bloom, has the Rose Cup football match; There is a cotton cup football match in Dallas, Texas, which is rich in cotton; There is a sugar cup football match in New Orleans, Louisiana, which produces sugar cane. Then came the Crocodile Cup in Jacksonville, Florida, and the Sun Cup in El Paso, Texas.

Another interesting habit of American students is to make new year's resolutions, which they call "New Year's resolutions". This resolution is usually not ambitious, but some simple and practical plans. For example, "I will definitely quit smoking" or "I will treat my neighbors well" and so on. They always tell everyone frankly in order to get supervision and encouragement.

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The origin of Thanksgiving:

Thanksgiving Day is an important holiday for Americans. Every year on the fourth Thursday of June 165438+ 10, American families hold a big Thanksgiving dinner. The most common traditional food is Indian pudding made of turkey, pumpkin pie and corn flour. On this day, some Americans take family trips or visit relatives and friends to enjoy family happiness. During Thanksgiving, American cities and towns will hold costume parades, theatrical performances, shooting, target shooting and other sports competitions. Some American families, religious organizations and charities also provide free turkey banquets for the poor, orphans and vagrants, so that those unfortunate people can also get a human warmth on Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving originated from early settlers in Plymouth, Massachusetts. These immigrants were called Puritans in England. Dissatisfied with the incomplete religious reform of the Church of England and the political repression and religious persecution of the king and the Church of England, these Puritans left the Church of England and went to Holland. Later, they decided to move to a desolate place on the other side of the Atlantic, hoping to live freely according to their own wishes.

1620 In September, the ship Mayflower left England with 102 Puritans and their families for North America. After more than two months of hard sailing, it landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and settled down from then on. In the first winter, more than half of these Puritans died at once because of lack of food, cold weather, epidemic disease and overwork. The following spring, Masasuode, the chief of the local Indian tribe, led the kind Indians, gave grain seeds to the Puritans and taught them to hunt, grow crops and fish. With the help of Indians, the Puritans had a bumper harvest that year. William bradford, the first governor, suggested setting up a festival to celebrate the harvest and thank God for his gift. At the same time, I also want to use this festival to strengthen the harmonious relationship between whites and Indians. 1621165438+1On a Thursday in late October, the Puritans brought by Massasod and 90 Indians got together to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in American history. Male Puritans go out hunting and catch turkeys, while women cook delicious food with corn, pumpkin, sweet potato and fruit at home. In this way, whites and Indians ate, chatted, sang and danced around the bonfire, and the whole celebration lasted for three days.

Since then, Europeans who immigrated to the United States have basically followed the form of the first Thanksgiving celebration on the North American continent. 1789, Washington, the first president of the United States, officially stipulated that165438+1October 26th was the first Thanksgiving celebrated by the whole country. However, for a long time, each state has set a holiday date according to its own situation. 194 1 year, with the approval of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Congress passed a bill declaring the fourth Thursday of June as the national Thanksgiving Day every year.

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A gift from "God"

On the fourth Thursday in June, the American people celebrate their most important traditional folk festival-Thanksgiving Day. The festival begins at 162 1. That autumn, British immigrants who came to the United States across the ocean held a three-day carnival, thanking God for giving them a bumper harvest. Since then, this custom has continued and gradually became popular in various places. 1863, American President Lincoln officially declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday. At that time, family reunion and national celebration will be as grand and warm as the Spring Festival in China.

Remember to eat roast turkey on Thanksgiving Day!

Why do you eat roast birds on Thanksgiving Day in the West? We want to read the Bible. There is a passage in the Exodus of the Old Testament: Moses took the Israelites into desert of sinai without eating or drinking. The Israelis are very dissatisfied. Start complaining. Moses said that God had heard their complaints. They will get food. As a result, a large number of quails flew in and landed in their camp the next day. Moses said, This is the flesh that God has given you to eat. So they ate a big meal happily. This may be the earliest Thanksgiving in Judaism. There is no record in the Bible of how the Israelites eat these quails. But when I think about it, I know it must be baked. Because they are in the desert, they are short of water and can't cook. It is impossible to steam. They can't steam. Only baking, no cooking utensils. They must not have escaped from Egypt with a heavy and expensive pot. There was no aluminum or iron at that time. The clay pots used by ordinary people are easily broken, so you can't take them with you on the road, so you must have roasted quail. This is also the best way to eat. Therefore, there is such a content in western culture: poultry is God's salvation and gift. People should bake and eat. And it's best to eat it on Thanksgiving Day.

Americans celebrate the Spring Festival.

194 1 year, the US Congress passed a decree to designate the fourth Thursday of 1 1 month as Thanksgiving Day. Americans celebrate Thanksgiving mainly by reuniting with their families, and then enjoying a big holiday dinner together. Everyone whose family doesn't live in the same city should go home before Thanksgiving. This is very similar to the Spring Festival in China.

News media reported that Thanksgiving holiday is also the most tense time for American airlines, with almost full flights and frequent flight delays. However, people are probably willing to reunite with their families and celebrate festivals.

Every Thanksgiving, every American family eats turkey. Turkey has become a symbol of Thanksgiving. In addition, they usually eat some traditional dishes, such as zucchini, cream onion, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and so on.

There is a special activity in new york, that is, Macy's Department Store holds a festival parade every Thanksgiving.

Jokes about "Eating Turkey on Thanksgiving Day"

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a bit like China people celebrate the Spring Festival, which is a day of family reunion. Usually, Americans don't pay attention to food, but Thanksgiving Day is an exception. People are used to munching on turkey. This is related to another legend of the origin of Thanksgiving: at that time, the ancestors of North Americans moved to the New World, and they suffered a poor agricultural harvest just after landing, which was hated by the local indigenous Indians. When winter comes, immigrants think they are doomed, so they leave it to fate; Unexpectedly, at this desperate moment, a large group of turkeys flew from a distance and let them live. People have always thought that God helped them through the difficulties with Enshi turkey, so they "felt" this "favor" and formed the custom of eating turkey to commemorate them.

Turkey, also known as "MeleagrisGallopavo", is tall. The cock weighs 12 to 18 kg, and the hen weighs 8 to 9 kg. It lays 60 to 70 eggs every year, and the eggs weigh 75 to 80 grams .. There are still savages in North America today, but not many.

It is worth mentioning that Mark Twain, a great American writer, is humorous about munching turkey on Thanksgiving Day. He wrote, "Let everyone donate humble, sincere and heartfelt thanks" instead of "slaughtering" turkeys. Isn't it "bite the hand that feeds you" to eat turkey on Thanksgiving?