A little knowledge about Thanksgiving Day

Tips on Thanksgiving are summarized as follows.

1. The origin of Thanksgiving

When the first immigrants first arrived in America, they were down and out, and with the help of Indians, their lives became better. In order to thank the local Indians for their help, the immigrants celebrated the first Thanksgiving in American history on Thursday in late 162 1 1 year1October.

2. Become a legal holiday

1863, then US President abraham lincoln announced that Thanksgiving Day would be a national holiday, which was largely attributed to an editor named Hale, who wrote in 17 calling for Thanksgiving Day to be a national holiday.

Turkey has almost become a national bird.

Ben Franklin, the father of the United States, once wrote to his daughter, saying, "The eagle is inferior in quality, but the turkey is a more decent bird." And hope to make turkey a national bird.

4. Turkey Turkey

The most famous food on Thanksgiving Day is turkey, and Turkish English is also "turkey". Not only that, there are four cities in the United States named after "Turkey". It can be seen that the American people love turkeys.

Forgive the turkey

There is an American tradition that the president pardons a turkey every Thanksgiving. This "pardoned" turkey will not only get rid of the fate of being sent to the table, but also be sent to the exhibition and finally retire in the playground or the country.

6. Turkey can fly

Although the turkey looks big and bloated. But wild turkeys can fly short distances at a speed of 55 miles per hour, while domestic turkeys can't fly.

7. Not just turkeys

On Thanksgiving Day, people not only eat turkey, but also pumpkin pie, corn bread, foreign chestnuts, cranberry jelly, sour jam and so on are very popular and will appear on the Thanksgiving table.