Thanksgiving Day
First of all, Happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone enjoyed their day, ate a lot of food, and had fun. But how many of us actually know why we celebrate Thanksgiving day? For those of you who just celebrate to eat food, I decided to write about the origin of Thanksgiving day to actually understand why we eat all these food that we eat on Thnaksgiving day.On September 6, 1620, a boat filled with 102 Pilgrims, left England because they were persecuted. They arrived on Massachusetts in late November, with many passengers who died along the way. Arriving too late to grow crops, half of them died due to starvation and disease. The following spring, the Iroquois Indians taught them how to grow corn, other crops to grow in the soil, and how to hunt and fish.
By autumn, their crops were harvested. They planned a feast to show their aprreciation to the Indians and to God, so they invited the Indian chief and 90 Indians. The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys, and the colonists offered different kinds of games to enjoy. The colonists had learned how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn and squashdishes from the Indians during the feast.
The following years, many of the colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks. After the United States became an independent country, Congress recommended one day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day, but in 1863, at the end of the civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday in November.
posted by Yoshimi Nomura @ 12:57 PM
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