Mother's Day is the second Sunday in May every year.

The meaning of Mother's Day:

The Chinese nation has a long and splendid ethical civilization. It is a nation that attaches great importance to parent-child love and benevolence, and has given birth to many great and influential mothers. mother figure.

We should have our own Chinese Mother’s Day, a Chinese Mother’s Day that is full of the excellent cultural connotation and national spirit of the Chinese nation, rather than an external Mother’s Day. This is the need for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Looking back at the history of the Chinese nation, Mencius's mother, Shen, is the most prominent image of a wise mother in China. After Mencius lost his father when he was three years old, she took on all the responsibilities for educating him.

The story of "Meng Meng's mother moved three times" and "cut off the opportunity to teach her son" has been passed down for more than two thousand years. She noticed everything from the external environment of the child's growth to the internal laws of learning, and finally made the child a She has become a model mother in educating her children, and is known as "a mother who educates her children."

Still passed down as a model in modern times, Meng Mu can be used as the image representative of Chinese Mother's Day to highlight the greatness of mothers and great maternal love, inspire generations of mothers, and inspire the love and love of the sons of man. Filial piety. Giving birth to children is the beginning of motherhood. Chinese Mother's Day, with Mencius as its banner, is chosen on the day Mencius was born, because it was on this day that Meng became Meng's mother.

Nowadays, some children only think about their own happiness when celebrating their birthdays. In traditional virtues, birthdays should be grateful to the mother for their kindness, so birthdays are called "Mother's Day" or simply "Mother's Day". Designating Mencius’ birthday as Mother’s Day, represented by Mencius’ mother, means that when celebrating one’s birthday, one should be grateful for his mother’s kindness and love.

Frequently given Mother’s Day gifts:

Carnations

In May 1934, the United States issued Mother’s Day commemorative stamps for the first time. On the stamps, a kind mother, Putting her hands on her knees, she looked with joy at the bright and beautiful bouquet of carnations in the vase in front of her. With the spread of stamps, many people associate Mother's Day with carnations. Carnations have become a flower that symbolizes maternal love and are respected by people.

The international flower dedicated to mothers is carnation. It has bright and beautiful flowers on slender green stems. The petals are compact and not easy to fall. The leaves are slender and not easy to curl. The flowers are graceful and gorgeous. Elegant and chic.

The red carnation symbolizes passion, justice, beauty and never giving up, wishing the mother a long and healthy life; the pink carnation wishes the mother to be young and beautiful forever; the white carnation symbolizes the pure love and sincerity of the children towards the mother. of gratitude; the yellow flowers symbolize gratitude and thank the mother for her hard work.

Hemerocallis fulva

Hemerocallis fulva has always been known as the "mother flower" in China. It is recorded in "The Book of Songs, Wei Feng, and Bo Xi": "How can I get the Hemerocallis, the back of the tree?" The meaning of this sentence is: Where can I get a daylily and plant it in front of my mother's hall, so that my mother will be happy and forget her worries?

The house where the mother lives is also called the Daylily Hall, and daylilies are used to replace maternal love, as in Meng Jiao's poem of a wanderer: "Hemerocallis grow on the steps of the hall, and the wanderer travels to the end of the world; the loving mother is in front of the hall, but no daylily flowers are seen." Poems by Ye Mengde There is a saying: "In the hall with white hair, children are more pregnant." Hemerocallis fulva became the synonym for mother, and Hemerocallis fulva naturally became the mother's flower in China.

Famous quotes about maternal love:

1. Everything I am, everything I am, I owe to my angelic mother.

——Lincoln

2. How similar mothers are all over the world! Their hearts are always the same. Every mother has a very pure heart.

——Whitman

3. When you are successful, everyone is a friend. But only the mother - she is the companion in failure.

——Zheng Zhenduo

4. My life began when I opened my eyes and fell in love with my mother’s face.

——George Eliot

5. What I get from my mother is happiness and the joy of telling stories.

——Goethe