母亲节的由来 英文

Mother'挢旗扦渌;s Day, as a holiday to thank mothers, first appeared in ancient Greece on January 8, while in China, the United States, Canada and some other countries, it is the second Sunday in May.

Other countries have different dates. Mothers usually receive gifts on this day. Carnations are considered flowers for mothers. And our mother's flower is Hemerocallis fulva, also called Forget Sadness Grass.

Historians claim that it was probably in ancient Greece that people celebrated the Festival of the Goddess of Ria. The goddess was the mother of Zeus, from whom almost all the Greek gods came.

On this day, the ancient Greeks paid tribute to the mother of the Greek gods, Cybele (the mother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hera and Hestia, hence the mother of the gods).

By the time of ancient Rome, the scale of these activities became larger, and celebrations often lasted for three days. Of course, the worship of goddess in ancient times was just a superstition, which is quite different from the respect of motherhood today.

In the mid-17th century, Mother's Day spread to England. The fourth Sunday of Lent was regarded as Mother's Day by the British. On this day, young people who go out will return home and bring small gifts to their mothers.

母亲节（Mother'sDay），作为一个感谢母亲的节日，最早出现在古希腊，时间是每年的一月八日，而在中国、美国、加拿大和一些其他国家，则是每年5月的第二个星期天。

其他一些国家的日期也并不一样。母亲们在这一天通常会收到礼物。康乃馨被视为献给母亲的花。而我国的母亲花是萱草花，又叫忘忧草。

历史学家声称最早可能是在古希腊，人们庆祝莉雅女神的节日。这女神就是宙斯的母亲，几乎希腊所有的神都从她而出。在这一天，古希腊人向希腊众神之母希布莉（Cybele，宙斯、波塞冬、哈德斯、得墨忒耳、赫拉和赫斯提亚的母亲，故称众神之母）致敬。

到古罗马时，这些活动的规模就变得更大，庆祝盛况往往持续达三天之久。当然，古时人们对女神的崇拜只不过是一种迷信，它同今天人们对母性的尊敬是大不相同的。

在17世纪中叶，母亲节流传到英国，英国人把封斋期的第四个星期天作为母亲节。在这一天里，出门在外的年轻人将回到家中，给他们的母亲带上一些小礼物。