| 词汇 | mother-s day |
| 词源 | Mother’s Day; Mothering Sunday Founded by Julia Ward Howe, the American poet who wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” shortly after she returned to Boston from Europe on a crusade for world peace in 1872. Howe called for June 2 to be set aside for “Mothers’ Peace Day” and beginning with Boston, many cities and states adopted the tradition before President Woodrow Wilson authorized Mother’s Day as a national holi- day in 1915. Today it is celebrated on the second Sunday in May. Father’s Day, the third Sunday in June, is set aside to honor fathers. The original Mother’s Day was what the British call Moth- ering Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent, also known as Laetare Sunday or Mid-Lent Sunday. Children since the 19th century have customarily given presents to their mothers on this day, hence its name. But the first Mother’s Day was celebrated in the U.S. in 1908, when Congress resolved that the second Sunday in May be recognized as the national day to honor mothers. Mother’s Day is widely accepted in Britain today, but the Brit- ish also celebrate Mothering Sunday. |
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