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What is Girls' Day? What is the origin?

Girls' Day, which originated in the late 1980s, was firstly initiated by Shandong University in China and later spread to all Chinese universities, is a festival that cares for female students and shows the style of female students in colleges and universities, and it is an event that guides female students to pay attention to their ideological quality, moral cultivation, cultural connotation, business ability and mental health by carrying out humanistic activities in high grade and style, and it is one of the interesting cultures in colleges and universities campuses. representative of one.

The Women's Day is scheduled for the day before the Women's Day, first of all, because many college girls are not willing to call themselves "women", but do not want to give up this unique holiday privileges of women. Coupled with the widely spread "girls and women are only one day apart", so now there is a March 7 Girls' Day.

Girls' Day is derived from March 8 Women's Day, so the significance of Girls' Day is also related to Women's Day. 3.8 Women's Day is a women's holiday, and girls don't want to call themselves women, but they don't want to give up this privilege, so there is Girls' Day. In addition, Girls' Day is actually a big derivative of Valentine's Day, the most important thing that colleges and universities can't do without is love, whether it's the Western Valentine's Day or Tanabata, on Girls' Day, many boys will confess their love to the girls they've loved for a long time, so the derivation of Girls' Day can be said to be a watertight one.

The significance of Girls' Day

Girls' Day provides a platform for female college students to learn and exercise. Many college students believe that the holding of Girls' Day has far-reaching significance. It not only enriches campus life, reflects the school's respect and care for girls, promotes sincere exchanges between male and female students, and shows the youthful style of students. In the 1990s, the China Women's Federation called for women to be "self-respecting, self-confident, self-reliant and self-improving", and some colleges and universities across the country responded to the call of the Women's Federation by organizing the "Women's Day" to provide a stage for college students to show off their image. Through a series of activities of the Women's Day, a lot of talents of girls have been explored, and the activities are not only lively and interesting, but also have certain inspirational significance, which is welcomed by the girls unanimously.

The more important significance of the Girls' Day is to guide the majority of girls to pay more attention to their own moral cultivation, cultural connotation, mental health, calm and self-confidence and other comprehensive qualities of the improvement, to help girls correctly look at and examine themselves, to help girls to take the road of growth, success, success, in the future road overflowing with self-confidence and enthusiasm, I hope that this activity to bring them some innovative, valuable harvest, so that the campus because of the presence of girls become the campus of the world's largest and most important. I hope that this activity will bring them some innovative and valuable gains, and make the campus more beautiful because of the existence of girls.

In foreign countries, in addition to the March 8 Women's Day, some countries also have girls' festivals, such as: Japan Girls' Day.

1, Japan Girl's Day

In Japan, every year on March 3 is the happiest day for girls, because this day is the traditional Japanese "Girl's Day". It is also called "Peach Blossom Festival". It is so called because it used to be celebrated on the third day of the third month of the old calendar (about a month later than the third day of the third month of the Gregorian calendar), when the peach blossoms were in full bloom.

2, Sweden Girl's Day

European countries, Sweden, also divided into children's day is more subtle, December 13 every year is Sweden's "Girl's Day", also known as "Lucia Goddess Day". Lucia is the goddess of Swedish legend to protect the girls, every this holiday, the girls have to dress up as the goddess look, for other children to do good things.

August 7 of each year is "Boys' Day," also known as "Lobster Day," which is meant to encourage young boys across the country to learn from the courageous spirit of the lobster. On this day, children dress up as lobsters and put on some very lively shows.

3, the German Girls Day

April 22 every year is the German "Girls Day. The main purpose of the establishment of the German "Girls' Day" is to call on society and business leaders to pay attention to the study, employment and survival of young women workers, as far as possible, to provide them with suitable jobs.