西方节日英文简介

1. Valentine's Day is a saints day commemorating Saint Valentine on February 14. It is the traditional

day on which lovers express their love for each other.The holiday is named after two men, both Christian martyrs among the numerous Early Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

2. Easter, Pascha, or Resurrection Day, is an important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year.

It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion some time in the period AD 27 to 33.

3. In the United States, Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day is an annual one-day holiday to give

thanks to God,for the things one has at the end of the harvest season. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November ( The period from Thanksgiving Day to New Year's Day is often collectively referred to as the "holiday season," and the holiday itself is often nicknamed Turkey Day.

Thanksgiving is generally considered a secular holiday, and is not directly based in religious canon or dogma.

4. Christmas, also referred to as Christmas Day or Christmastide, is an annual holiday falling on

December 25 or January 6.[1] that honors and celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. His birth, which is the basis for the transcultural Western calendar, has been determined by modern historians as having occurred between 8–4 BC, and is traditionally told to have taken place in a stable within the city of Bethlehem.

5. Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Traditional activities

include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day",[1] which is now also known as All Saints' Day.

Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several parts of the Western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom and occasionally in parts of Australia and New Zealand.

6. Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on various days in many places around the

world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day.

7. Father's Day is a secular celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement

Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and parenting by males, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving to fathers and family-oriented activities.

8. April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated

in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, enemies and neighbors, or sending them on fools' errands,