感恩節就要到了，第一次感恩節的時間是1621年的十二月，一共持續了3天，移民們藉此機會感謝上天給予他們的豐賜。下面就來看看小編給大家提供的感恩節的資料吧!
【感恩節的來源介紹】
Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated in much of North America, generally observed as an expression of gratitude, usually to God. The most common view of its origin is that it was to give thanks to God for the bounty of the autumn harvest.
In the United States, the holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.
In Canada, where the harvest generally ends earlier in the year, the holiday is celebrated on the second Monday in October, which is observed as Columbus Day or protested as Indigenous Peoples Day in the United States.
Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with a feast shared among friends and family.
In the United States, it is an important family holiday, and people often travel across the country to be with family members for the holiday.
The Thanksgiving holiday is generally a "four-day" weekend in the United States, in which Americans are given the relevant Thursday and Friday off.
Thanksgiving is almost entirely celebrated at home, unlike the Fourth of July or Christmas, which are associated with a variety of shared public experiences (fireworks, caroling, etc.)
Thanksgiving began with the first European settlers in America. They gathered their crops, celebrated and gave thanks for the food.
Tradition says Pilgrim settlers from England celebrated the first thanksgiving in sixteen twenty-one. There is evidence that settlers in other parts of America held earlier thanksgiving celebrations. But the Pilgrims' thanksgiving story is the most popular.
The Pilgrims were religious dissidents who fled oppression in England. They went first to the Netherlands. Then they left that country to establish a colony in North America. The Pilgrims landed in sixteen twenty in what later became known as Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Their voyage across the Atlantic Ocean was difficult. Their first months in America were difficult, too. About one hundred Pilgrims landed just as autumn was turning to winter. During the cold months that followed, about half of them died.
【感恩節火雞的由來】
為什麼要在感恩節食用火雞呢。這要從感恩節的由來說起。1620年，英國一批主張改革的清教徒，因理想和抱負不能實現而退出國教，自立新教，此舉激起了英國當政者的仇恨。
這些清教徒們不堪承受統治者的迫害和歧視，先逃到荷蘭，9月初，乘船遠渡重洋，準備流亡美國。
船在波濤洶湧的大海中漂泊了65天，於11月終於到達了美國東海岸，在羅得島州的普羅維斯敦港登陸。當時，此處還是一片荒涼未開墾的處女地，火雞和其他野生動物隨處可見。
時值寒冬，來到陌生的地方，缺衣少食，惡劣的環境正在威脅著他們的生命。在這生死攸關的時刻，當地的印第安人為他們帶去了食物、生活用品和生產工具，並幫助他們建立了自己的`新家園。
這些英國人在安頓好新家以後，為感謝在危難之時幫助、支援過他們的印第安人，同時也感謝上帝對他們的“恩賜”，這年11月第四個星期四，將獵獲的火雞製成美味佳餚，盛情款待印第安人，並與他們進行聯歡，慶祝活動持續了三天。
此後，每年11月第四個星期四都要舉行這樣的慶祝活動，除招待印第安人食烤火雞外，並在一起瘵辦射箭、跑步、摔跤等體育競賽，夜晚還圍著篝火盡情歌舞，共享歡樂。
另外有一種說法是這樣的，在16世紀某一年的收穫節上，英國的伊麗莎白女王正在吃烤鵝。這時傳來訊息說，西班牙的無敵艦隊(SpanishArmada)在前往攻擊她心愛的英國途中沉沒了，女王高興不已，於是又要了一隻鵝來慶祝這一捷報。因此鵝也就成了英國豐收季節的愛鳥。
當清教徒們從英國來到美國時，烤火雞代替烤鵝成了主要菜餚，因為北美大陸火雞數量更為豐富，比鵝更容易找到。
