February 10, 2022

About Mother's Day

on February 9, 2022

Mother's Day is a day to thank mothers. How much do you know about this holiday?

origin

The tradition of Mother's Day originated in ancient Greece. On January 8, the ancient Greeks paid tribute to Rhea (English: Rhea, Cybele, Greek: Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia), the mother of the Greek gods. Ya's mother, so called the mother of the gods) tribute. By the time of ancient Rome, these events had grown on a larger scale, with festivities often lasting up to three days. Of course, the worship of the goddess in ancient times was just a superstition, which is very different from the respect for motherhood today.

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In the middle of the 17th century, Mother's Day spread to England, and the British regarded the fourth Sunday of Lent as Mother's Day. On this day, young people who are away from home will come home and bring some small gifts to their mothers. In 1876, America was still mourning the dead of the Civil War. Anna Jarvis, who taught a Memorial Day lesson in the chapel, said in her prayer, after telling stories of heroes who died in battle, "I hope that somewhere, sometime, someone will create a Mother's Day honors and honors mothers in America and around the world." Mrs. Chavez served her house of worship for more than 25 years, and when she passed away at age 72, her daughter Anna, 41, aspired to create a Mother's Day to honor motherhood Wish I prayed for many years ago.

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Anna wrote letters to many famous people, asking them to support the establishment of Mother's Day to promote filial piety. The response was cold at first, but she was not discouraged and continued to appeal to all walks of life. On May 12, 1907, the Andrew Methodist Church responded Anna's invitation to hold a liturgy for the mothers. The following year, the ceremony was held in Philadelphia, and the response was overwhelming, and it finally won the support of the Governor of Victoria, and in 1910, the establishment of Mother's Day in the state was announced. In 1911, the celebration of Mother's Day was very widespread, sweeping not only every state in the United States of America, but also Canada, Mexico and some countries in South America began to celebrate the holiday. The United States of America has also distributed Mother's Day flyers in ten different languages to countries in order to increase their impact.

In the years since, the movement to celebrate Mother's Day has grown unabated. In 1912, the United States of America established the Mother's Day International Association specifically. In May 1913, the House of Representatives of the United States of America unanimously passed a resolution calling on the President and all officials of the Cabinet, Senate and House of Representatives and the federal government to wear white dianthus flowers on Mother's Day. In 1914, the Congress of the United States of America officially named the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day and asked the President to issue a proclamation calling on government officials to fly the national flag on all public buildings.

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President Wilson told the nation's citizens to also hang the flag on their homes to show their love and respect for all the mothers of the United States of America. Since then, the President of the United States of America has issued a declaration with the same content every year. Since then, Mother's Day has been carried out in various countries.