听说大洋彼岸今天是感恩节，别处怎么没这节日？究竟怎么回事嘛？
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莺莺 于 1999/11/24 18:23:56 发表在 汉英
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严格说来美国时间是明天(星期四)，还有4个多小时呢！请进！
作者：on-line nanny - 1999/11/24 18:30:06
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Thanksgiving Day, an annual national holiday in the United States, celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. It originated in the autumn of 1621 when Plymouth governor William Bradford invited neighbouring Indians to join the Pilgrims for a three-day festival of recreation and feasting in gratitude for the bounty of the season. By the end of the 19th century, Thanksgiving Day had become an institution throughout New England and was officially proclaimed as a national holiday by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The traditional feast of turkey and pumpkin pie has since become an indigenous part of the national culture. Traditionally celebrated on the last Thursday in November, it was changed by act of Congress in 1941 to the fourth Thursday of that month. Canada first adopted Thanksgiving as a national holiday in November 1879, and it is now celebrated annually on the second Monday in October.
Source: Encyclopeadia Britannica
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Sorry to see this time you are mis-leading.
作者：Hard to believe! - 1999/11/24 22:47:17
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Are you telling us that the Natives American should thank European colonist for their "giving". A big joke!!!
There are other stories about this holiday that are far more apealing and credible than the one you quoted from that particular book. By the way, a book is only a book.
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Nowhere can I get the same conclusion as you did?
作者：observor - 1999/11/24 22:59:02
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They only invited the Indians to join in a three-day festival of recreation and feasting in "gratitude for the bounty of the season." Instead of accusing the other of misleading, I would have copied and pasted another more interesting story for everybody to share.
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Is that the whole story how Thanksgiving is from?
作者：Sensitively asking - 1999/11/25 21:24:43
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Of course not. But at least it's an authoritative account from the English-speaking world.
作者：Oberservor - 1999/11/25 23:01:44
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Should I believe what Japanese authority says about Nanjing Massacre?
作者：Indian Chief - 1999/11/26 21:49:27
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No, you don't have to. Maybe the whole Thanksgiving stuff is a hoax, but...
作者：Observer - 1999/11/27 01:53:57
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u gotta know the other's account in order to refute it. On-line nanny only cited from the white authority. Maybe the whole thing is a white hoax, but it has nothing to do with her own position. If white Americans observe the Thanksgiving out of reasons as cited from the EB, you may choose to reject this holiday. If she should come up with a more deceptive story to coax people into embracing this holiday, that would be quite another story. I still think there's nothing wrong on the part of the on-line nanny to present the real thinking behind this Thanksgiving stuff. The choice is yours.
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Fran, I'd like you to take "American History" class soon.
作者：On-line Shefield - 1999/11/26 21:28:36
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Yes, I agree. Encyclopaedia Britannica will soon rewrite this piece of Amercian history. Thx!
作者：on-line nanny - 1999/11/27 01:59:23
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THE SPIRIT OF THE CORN AN IROQUOIS LEGEND
作者：on-line nanny - 1999/11/24 18:33:47
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BY HARRIET MAXWELL CONVERSE [ADAPTED]
THERE was a time, says the Iroquois grandmother, when it was not needful to plant the corn- seed nor to hoe the fields, for the corn sprang up of itself, and filled the broad meadows. Its stalks grew strong and tall, and were covered with leaves like waving banners, and filled with ears of pearly grain wrapped in silken green husks.
In those days Onatah, the Spirit of the Corn, walked upon the earth. The sun lovingly touched her dusky face with the blush of the morning, and her eyes grew soft as the gleam of the stars on dark streams. Her night-black hair was spread before the breeze like a wind-driven cloud.
As she walked through the fields, the corn, the Indian maize, sprang up of itself from the earth and filled the air with its fringed tassels and whispering leaves. With Onatah walked her two sisters, the Spirits of the Squash and the Bean. As they passed by, squash-vines and bean-plants grew from the corn-hills.
One day Onatah wandered away alone in search
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of early dew. Then the Evil One of the earth, Hahgwehdaetgah, followed swiftly after. He grasped her by the hair and dragged her beneath the ground down to his gloomy cave. Then, sending out his fire-breathing monsters, he blighted Onatah's grain. And when her sisters, the Spirits of the Squash and the Bean, saw the flame- monsters raging through the fields, they flew far away in terror.
As for poor Onatah, she lay a trembling captive in the dark prison-cave of the Evil One. She mourned the blight of her cornfields, and sorrowed over her runaway sisters.
"O warm, bright sun!" she cried, "if I may walk once more upon the earth, never again will I leave my corn!"
And the little birds of the air heard her cry, and winging their way upward they carried her vow and gave it to the sun as he wandered through the blue heavens.
The sun, who loved Onatah, sent out many searching beams of light. They pierced through the damp earth, and entering the prison-cave, guided her back again to her fields.
And ever after that she watched her fields alone, for no more did her sisters, the Spirits of the Squash and Bean, watch with her. If her fields thirsted, no longer could she seek the early dew. If the flame-monsters burned her corn, she could
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not search the skies for cooling winds. And when the great rains fell and injured her harvest, her voice grew so faint that the friendly sun could not hear it.
But ever Onatah tenderly watched her fields and the little birds of the air flocked to her service. They followed her through the rows of corn, and made war on the tiny enemies that gnawed at the roots of the grain.
And at harvest-time the grateful Onatah scattered the first gathered corn over her broad lands, and the little birds, fluttering and singing, joyfully partook of the feast spread for them on the meadow-ground.
Source: Encyclopeadia Britannica
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多谢在线奶妈！Happy Holiday Season! (which begins with the Thanksgiving in US, I presume?)
作者：莺莺 - 1999/11/24 18:47:41
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Well, traditionally yes! The annual holiday season begins with the Thanksgiving & lasts till NYD.
作者：on-line nanny - 1999/11/24 19:03:32
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For the Chinese here, the season lasts even longer as the Lunar New Year is usually just a month away from the Solar New Year. Happy holidays to you, too!
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THANKSGIVING
作者：张生 - 1999/11/25 01:30:19
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THANKSGIVING
Those who walk on the path of pride,
crushing the lowly life under their tread, covering
the tender green of the earth with their footprints
in blood,
Let them rejoice and thank You, God, for the
day is theirs.
But I am thankful that my lot lies with the
humble who suffer and bear the burden of power
and hide their faces and stifle their sobs in the
dark.
For every throb of their pain has pulsed in the
secret depth of Your night, and every insult has
been gathered into Your great silence;
And the morrow is theirs.
by Rabindranath Tagore
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That's very good! Thanks!
作者：莺莺 - 1999/11/25 01:40:48
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