感恩节就要到了，第一次感恩节的时间是1621年的十二月，一共持续了3天，移民们借此机会感谢上天给予他们的丰赐。下面就来看看小编给大家提供的感恩节的资料吧!
【感恩节的来源介绍】
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.
【感恩节火鸡的由来】
为什么要在感恩节食用火鸡呢。这要从感恩节的由来说起。1620年，英国一批主张改革的清教徒，因理想和抱负不能实现而退出国教，自立新教，此举激起了英国当政者的仇恨。
这些清教徒们不堪承受统治者的迫害和歧视，先逃到荷兰，9月初，乘船远渡重洋，准备流亡美国。
船在波涛汹涌的大海中漂泊了65天，于11月终于到达了美国东海岸，在罗得岛州的普罗维斯敦港登陆。当时，此处还是一片荒凉未开垦的处女地，火鸡和其他野生动物随处可见。
时值寒冬，来到陌生的地方，缺衣少食，恶劣的环境正在威胁着他们的生命。在这生死攸关的时刻，当地的印第安人为他们带去了食物、生活用品和生产工具，并帮助他们建立了自己的新家园。
这些英国人在安顿好新家以后，为感谢在危难之时帮助、支援过他们的印第安人，同时也感谢上帝对他们的“恩赐”，这年11月第四个星期四，将猎获的火鸡制成美味佳肴，盛情款待印第安人，并与他们进行联欢，庆祝活动持续了三天。
此后，每年11月第四个星期四都要举行这样的庆祝活动，除招待印第安人食烤火鸡外，并在一起瘵办射箭、跑步、摔跤等体育竞赛，夜晚还围着篝火尽情歌舞，共享欢乐。
另外有一种说法是这样的，在16世纪某一年的收获节上，英国的伊丽莎白女王正在吃烤鹅。这时传来消息说，西班牙的无敌舰队(SpanishArmada)在前往攻击她心爱的英国途中沉没了，女王高兴不已，于是又要了一只鹅来庆祝这一捷报。因此鹅也就成了英国丰收季节的爱鸟。
当清教徒们从英国来到美国时，烤火鸡代替烤鹅成了主要菜肴，因为北美大陆火鸡数量更为丰富，比鹅更容易找到。
