英语作文父亲节的由来
father‘s day is a fairly new celebration in the british calendar pared with mother‘s day, which has been a very popular and well celebrated festival in the uk for a very long time.
the origins of the celebrati on are american and it was inspired by the actions of a man named william smart. he was a veteran of the us civil war and his wife died giving birth to their sixth child. he raised six children alone without remarrying, which was undoubtedly unusual back in those days.
his daughter, sonora dodd, realised when she was an adult what her father had sacrificed for his children. it was in the early 1900s and she was actually at church one day, listening to a sermon on mother‘s day. she thought there should also be a father‘s day celebration.
and so the tradition was born, on the third sunday every june, close to the anniversary of so
nora‘s father‘s death. britain took the idea of father‘s day from the american celebration and it has been celebrated officially since the 1970s。
in 1909, living in the united states, washington spokane (spokane) of ms. du de (mrs. dodd, sonora louise smart dodd), when she was attending the main church on mother‘s day, held weeks later, ms. du de mind a the deep feelings, and she thought about: "why in this world do not have a festival to memorate his father do?"
ms. du de‘s mother died when she was 13-year-old year, left six children; ms. du de‘s, mr. william smart (mr. william smart), in the united states, a country in eastern washington state farms, alone, the father and mother raising six children grown up level. mr. smart participated in the american civil war, feats advertised, after the death of his wife, determined to no longer xu xian and devote herself brought up six children.
ms. du de eldest, is the only girl at home. characteristics of women carefully, so that she could better understand the father‘s hard work; mr. smart to work hard during the day, go home at night but also take care of home with each child‘s lives. after decades of hard work
has finally grown up sons and daughters, when their children look forward to a good old age make the oasion, mr. smart, mr. smart, but because of the long years of over-exertion and the sick died.
1909 that year, exactly, mr. smarr‘s death, when ms. du de attending church, mother‘s day thanksgiving weeks later, she missed particular father; until then, du defu people understand that her father in the upbringing
The first Father's Day was observed on June 19， 1910 in Spokane Washington. At about the same time in various towns and cities across American other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day.
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