What day of the year is Mother's Day?

Mother's Day is the second Sunday of May every year.

Mother's Day (Mother's Day), is a holiday to thank mothers. Modern Mother's Day originated in the United States and is the second Sunday in May each year. Mothers usually receive gifts on this day; carnations are considered to be flowers dedicated to mothers, while the Chinese mother's flower is the daylily flower, also known as the forget-me-not.

Mother's Day originated in Greece, where the ancient Greeks honored Hera, the mother of the gods in Greek mythology. In the mid-17th century, Mother's Day spread to England, where the British celebrated the fourth Sunday of Lent as Mother's Day. On this day, sons and daughters who had been away from home would return home with small gifts for their mothers.

Mother's Day in the modern sense originated in the United States, the initiator is the United States of America Philadelphia, Anna Jarvis, the woman never married, no children in the knee. 1906, May 9, Anna Jarvis mother died, she was very sad. On the anniversary of her mother's death the following year, Jarvis organized a memorial for her mother and encouraged others to show their appreciation for their loving mothers in similar ways.

Historical Significance of Mother's Day

Festivals are the crystallization and carrier of national culture. A large part of cultural memory is the memory of the festival. After many years, many past events have been forgotten, but the scene of the festival is fresh in our minds. At the same time, festivals have a wide coverage, constant repetition, edutainment and fun characteristics, and have a deep impact on people, so the major human holidays are crucial to the cultivation of national spirit and cohesion. The real Mother's Day should be rooted in the heart to realize the love of mothers.

On one hand, our Chinese Mother's Day advocates motherly love and motherly education; on the other hand, it advocates motherly love and filial piety. On the other hand, parents give life to their children and have an instinctive selfless love for them. The establishment of the Chinese Mother's Day is to let the world's parents have a love to show, let people seriously recognize the holiday; let the world's children have a filial piety awakened, and exquisite expression of the holiday.

Chinese traditional festivals are generally comprehensive, lacking a single prominent human theme festivals, such as Mother's Day, Valentine's Day and so on. And modern society has the need to express human feelings. Chinese traditional culture step by step towards self-awareness, self-confidence and self-improvement, but the road is still far, the need for more insightful people *** with the promotion of continuous efforts.

The Chinese nation has a long and splendid ethical civilization, is very important to the love of parents and children and benevolence of the nation, gave birth to many great and very influential mother figure. We should have our own Chinese Mother's Day, a Chinese Mother's Day overflowing with excellent cultural connotations and national spirit of the Chinese nation, rather than foreign Mother's Day, which is the need for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

The birth of a child is the beginning of motherhood, with the mother of Mencius as the banner of the Chinese Mother's Day was selected on the day of the birth of Mencius, because this day of the Equuschick became the mother of Mencius. Nowadays, some children only think of their own happiness on their birthdays, but in the traditional virtues, they should be grateful to their mothers for their birthdays, so they call their birthdays "Mother's Difficulty Day" or "Mother's Difficulty". To designate Mengzi's birthday as Mother's Day, which is represented by the image of Meng's mother, means that when celebrating one's birthday, one should be grateful for one's mother's kindness and love.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Mother's Day