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标 题: Sao Mang: thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United
States and Canada. Traditionally, it has been a time to give thanks for a
bountiful harvest. While it may have been religious in origin, Thanksgiving
is now primarily identified as a secular holiday.[1] It is sometimes
casually referred to as Turkey Day.
above from wiki
below from holiday net
The Pilgrims and America's First Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims, who celebrated the first thanksgiving in America, were fleeing
religious persecution in their native England. In 1609 a group of Pilgrims
left England for the religious freedom in Holland where they lived and
prospered. After a few years their children were speaking Dutch and had
become attached to the dutch way of life. This worried the Pilgrims. They
considered the Dutch frivolous and their ideas a threat to their children's
education and morality.
So they decided to leave Holland and travel to the New World. Their trip was
financed by a group of English investors, the Merchant Adventurers. It was
agreed that the Pilgrims would be given passage and supplies in exchange for
their working for their backers for 7 years.
On Sept. 6, 1620 the Pilgrims set sail for the New World on a ship called
the Mayflower. They sailed from Plymouth, England and aboard were 44
Pilgrims, who called themselves the "Saints", and 66 others ,whom the
Pilgrims called the "Strangers."
The long trip was cold and damp and took 65 days. Since there was the danger
of fire on the wooden ship, the food had to be eaten cold. Many passengers
became sick and one person died by the time land was sighted on November
10th. |
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