Mother’s Day
Mother's Day is officially celebrated in over 140 countries around the world on differing days throughout the year. In Australia, people celebrate it on the second Sunday in May every year.
The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honour of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 1600's, the early Christians in England celebrated a day to honour Mary, the mother of Christ. By a religious order the holiday was later expanded to include all mothers, and named as the Mothering Sunday. Now, Mother’s day has become a very popular holiday in the World.
People of Australia take Mother’s Day as an opportunity to express gratitude to their mother. Children show love to their moms by gifting flowers and cards to them. There is a tradition to buy carnations for their mothers on Mother’s Day. A colored carnation signifies that a person's mother is living while a white carnation is used to honor a deceased mother. Besides their own mothers, children give presents to their grand mothers and other women who love and care for them .
Mother's Day in China is similar to how and other countries celebrate the day. Husbands and children make mothers feel special by bringing gifts, making greeting cards. Flowers, particularly carnations, are represented as the flower of mothers. Besides flowers and gifts, adults usually take the whole family to a restaurant to celebrate Mother’s Day. In Beijing, 10 distinguished mothers are awarded every year on the eve of Mother’s Day.
So, if you have the chance, take your mother out to celebrate Mother’s Day. Give her a nice bouquet of fresh carnations, make her day special and let her know how much you love her by treating her as the most important person in the world.
