China News Agency, Beijing, May 7th, Question: Hemerocallis and carnations, how do Chinese people express Mother's Day?

　　China News Agency reporter Wen Longjie

　　Hemerocallis grows in hall steps, and every inch of grass grows in three spring rays.

Mother's love is a consistent theme in ancient and modern times, a common discourse both at home and abroad. Many countries in the world have Mother's Day.

　　Due to different customs and cultures, Mother's Day in different countries is not the same day.

For example, Mother’s Day in the Arab region is March 21, in France it is the last Sunday in May, in the UK it is the fourth Sunday of Lent, in Thailand it is August 12, in Portugal Mother's Day is December 8th, and Mother's Day in Indonesia is December 22nd.

　　The most widely spread probably originated from the "Mother's Day" in the United States.

On May 10, 1913, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the relevant resolution.

President Wilson signed a proclamation declaring the second Sunday in May each year as Mother's Day.

For more than 100 years, Italy, Australia, Belgium and many other countries have also used to celebrate this point.

Data map: A child presents a greeting card made by himself to his mother.

Photo by Hu Gaolei issued by China News Agency

　　Due to the occasion of international exchanges, celebrating "Mother's Day" has also become a fashion in contemporary China.

Although "Mother's Day" is not a legal holiday in China, it is quite recognized by the people.

Some people were "inspired" by this and proposed that the day when Meng mother gave birth to Mencius should be positioned as "Chinese Mother's Day", that is, the second day of the fourth lunar month in the lunar calendar.

　　In fact, despite the time difference of "Mother's Day" in various countries, the connotation of "love" is the same.

　　"Before leaving, I am afraid of returning late." Mother's love is the greatest contribution a woman can make to human beings, transcending language, ethnicity and religion.

Correspondingly, maternal love and loving mother are both basic emotional needs, as evidenced by the highly similar pronunciation of the word "mother" all over the world, "it should be the mother's kindness, which makes you grief-stricken".

　　In China, maternal love has another meaning.

"A loving mother's line is in the hand, and a wandering child is wearing a shirt."

If love is an instinctive response to a mother's giving of life, then filial piety is an ethical sense of support and education for a mother.

Hu Shi once wrote in the article "My Mother": "If I can learn a little bit of good temper, if I can learn a little bit of kindness in dealing with others, if I can forgive and understand others - I have to thank my loving mother. ."

Red Carnation Source: IC photo

　　Love is born naturally, while filial piety depends on acquired culture.

　　Filial piety is one of the important concepts in Chinese culture.

In Confucianism, "benevolence" is considered to be the core, and "filial piety is the foundation of benevolence".

"Husband filial piety starts with serving relatives, middle serving monarch, and finally standing up."

　　The "Book of Filial Piety", which is listed as one of the 13 Confucian classics, points out that "filial piety is the foundation of virtue, and the source of teaching is born"; The scriptures of heaven and earth, and the people follow it, then the light of heaven and the benefit of the earth, in order to conform to the world, it is because of the lack of strict teaching, and the governance of it is not strict."

　　Filial piety is also valued in Western culture.

According to the records of the Bible, Jehovah God, whom Christians believe in, has issued ten commandments to human society that must be obeyed, the fifth of which requires "honor your parents."

Christian teaching requires Christians to "honor your father and mother so that you may be blessed and live a long life".

　　In Western culture, "filial piety" also often appears in the form of "thankfulness" to parents.

In the French expressionist writer Camus' "The Outsider" in the mid-20th century, Meursault, a small clerk, learned that his mother died in a nursing home, and he was indifferent when he saw his mother's body during the funeral, and was condemned as an "outsider" with distorted human nature and ignorance of gratitude.

　　"My father gave birth to me, and my mother judged me... The virtue that I want to repay, Haotian is extremely ignorant."

What flowers do you give your mother on Mother's Day?

——Whether it is the daylily flower in front of the hall, or a bouquet of carnations, it is all love and gratitude to mother.

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