Thanksgiving is one of America's most treasured holidays and traditions.This is a national holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It's celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in USA and on the second Monday of October in Canada.
Thanksgiving Day started in New England. It was for thanksgiving God for the abundant harvest of crops. This is usually somewhere in late fall when the crops have been harvested. People from many parts of the world have been holding some kind of harvest festivals for thousand years.
Today,Thanksgiving dinner almost always includes some of the foods served at the first feast: turkey, cranberry sauce, potatoes, pumpkin pie. Before the meal begins, families or friends usually pause to give thanks for their blesangs, including the joy of being united for the occasion.
All in all, if you want to know more about differents cultures you can go abroad to USA or Canada by this time. You can learn how the tradition is and if you are religious you will enjoy more. It's a fantastic tradition because all the family is reunited for one night to thanks God.
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