What are the customs and traditions of Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving customs include: family reunion, collective celebration and food delivery.

1, family reunion

Thanksgiving Day, like the Spring Festival in China, is a grand festival. Like China, this is a reunion festival. On this day, relatives who are away from home will get together and enjoy a "turkey" meal. After eating the turkey, you should say "thank you" to your family. This is also an important Thanksgiving custom.

Step 2 celebrate collectively

Thanksgiving Day is a traditional big holiday in America, and excitement is essential. In the United States, collective celebration is one of the customs of Thanksgiving. On Thanksgiving Day, the United States is full of joy and excitement, with costume parades, theatrical performances or sports competitions.

Lively and lovely children will also put on strange costumes, paint their faces with masks to imitate Indians, put on strange costumes, paint their faces with masks or sing and play the trumpet in the street.

Step 3 deliver food

Giving away food is also the custom of Thanksgiving. Since18th century, the United States has had the custom of sending a basket of food to poor families. At that time, a group of young women wanted to choose a certain day of the year to do good deeds and thought Thanksgiving was the most suitable day.

So as soon as Thanksgiving comes, they put a basket full of food and send it to the poor families. It was widely known, and soon many people followed their example.

social meaning

As far as its significance and celebration methods are concerned, Thanksgiving Day has hardly changed since 162 1. On this day, churches of all denominations open their doors to thank God for his generosity.

Thanksgiving is a family holiday. All over the country, couples, children and the elderly, from cities to towns, from towns to towns, from towns to villages, all go back to their hometowns for the holidays. People who can't go home also make long-distance calls with their parents and family to share their gratitude.

Thanksgiving dinner is actually the same throughout the country. The dining table is always filled with all kinds of delicious food. Naturally, it is mainly Turkey. Eating pumpkin pie is to remind everyone that Indians gave such gifts to the first settlers.

In most families, some traditional games are played after meals. Thanksgiving is a happy celebration, a day for family reunion and a time to renew friendship. On that day, even bachelors are always invited to other people's homes to share the joy of gratitude and thank God for his grace. This is also the meaning of Thanksgiving.