What are the western festivals?

Christmas is the day when Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, and the recognized date is 65438+February 25th. Originally a religious festival, Christmas has gradually evolved into a national festival with national style, which is very popular in the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia and other western countries, and even some countries in Africa and Southeast Asia.

2. Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a festival set up by Britain, America and other countries to show their respect for their mothers. The date is the second Sunday in May every year.

In 1980s, Mother's Day was gradually accepted by China people. Starting from 1988, some southern cities such as Guangzhou began to hold mother's day celebrations, and "good mother" was selected as one of the contents.

3. Father's Day

Father's Day is the third Sunday in June every year. Mainly in the United States and Canada. Father's Day originated in America in the early 20th century. It is said that there was a man named Wang in Washington state at that time. She lost her mother when she was young, and all six brothers and sisters were raised by her father.

4. Easter

Easter is a grand religious festival in western countries. On Easter morning, as soon as a sketch of the morning light was placed on the edge of the sky, melodious and deep music began to resound through the morning sky. Inspired by music, Christians flocked to churches, parks or public squares from all directions to welcome the dawn of Easter and commemorate the resurrection of Christ Jesus.

During the festival, according to the traditional custom, people cooked eggs and painted them red, representing the tears of swans and the happiness of the goddess of life after birth. Adults and children get together in groups to play egg games. They roll the eggs on the ground or on the slope, and the winner is king. The winner will get all the players' eggs.

5. April Fool's Day. Also known as ALL FOOLS' DAY

April Fool's Day (April Fool's Day or April Fool's Day) is also called April Fool's Day and Humor Day. April Fool's Day 1 April Fool's Day is a popular folk festival in the West since the 9th century, and it has not been recognized as a legal holiday by any country. On this day, people cheat and play tricks on each other in various ways, and often at the end of the joke, they will expose and announce that the object of the joke is a "fool".

The nature of jokes rarely contains substantial malice, but individual jokes are too big to cause people's panic and have a large-scale response, which is derived into (media) rumors and urban legends, so people generally avoid making jokes about disasters.