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Thanksgiving Festival |
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Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival is a feast to thank God for the bounty of the crops that marks the success of the people. It began thousands of years ago but has its origin in the United States of America. It is a national holiday observed on the fourth Thursday of November. On this day, family, friends and relatives get together for a feast to celebrate their good fortune, relax, enjoy one another’s company and exchange Thanksgiving |
Gifts and Gift ideas. This day also marks the unofficial beginning of the winter holiday season.
God has given us so much----fruits and vegetables, flowers and trees, mountains and rivers, sun and moon and skies and stars. We all admire, relish and enjoy them but hardly take out time to thank God for every thing that he has given us. Hence, Thanksgiving Day is one such day to take out time from our hectic schedule and share the gifts that God has bestowed us with and thank Him for his benevolence and kindness. Thus, the origin of the Thanksgiving Festival in the US.
However, this Thanksgiving Festival dates back to the celebration of Ancient Hebrews and Greeks. Ancient Hebrews held a special eight-day feast to celebrate their harvest season; and people in ancient Greece dedicated a nine-day harvest festival to Demeter—the Goddess of Agriculture. In the same manner, pre-Christian also marked a good harvest with a large feast before the crops were gathered and stored for the winter season.
Dgreetings.com offers you a condensed summary of the Thanksgiving Festival and provides you with the Thanksgiving gift ideas.
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