What are you going to do on Thanksgiving Day?

In terms of customs, the United States and Canada are basically the same. Dietary customs include: eating roast turkey, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, sweet potato and corn; Activities include: cranberry contest, corn game and pumpkin race.

In addition, there are mass activities such as masquerade parades, cultural performances or sports competitions, and there are corresponding holidays of 2 days. People far away will go home to reunite with their loved ones. Now it has also formed the habit of avoiding turkey and shopping on Black Friday.

Thanksgiving in the United States and Canada have many similarities, such as goat horns and pumpkin pie filled with flowers and fruits, which symbolize abundance.

The food on the Canadian Thanksgiving dinner table usually changes with the change of region and time, some are venison and waterfowl, some are wild ducks and geese, but at present it is mainly turkey and ham.

In addition to these activities, some families will drive to the countryside for an outing or travel by plane on Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Plymouth Port, where immigrants originally settled, is a place that tourists yearn for.

There, you can see the boat and Plymouth stone copied from may flower, and you can also visit the immigrant village built in imitation of that year.

Besides, Thanksgiving dinner is a very important meal for Americans in a year. The food in this meal is very rich, and both turkey and pumpkin pie are essential on the table.

Thanksgiving food in America is full of traditional characteristics. Turkey is the traditional main course of Thanksgiving. Usually, turkeys are stuffed with various spices and mixed foods, and then the whole turkey is cooked. The chicken skin was roasted to dark brown, and the owner sliced it with a knife and distributed it to everyone.

Extended data

The origin of Thanksgiving can be traced back to the beginning of American history, and it originated from early immigrants in Plymouth, Massachusetts. These immigrants are called Puritans in Britain because they are dissatisfied with the incomplete religious reform of the English church and the political repression and religious persecution of them by the British king and the English church.

So these Puritans left the Church of England and went to Holland. Later, they decided to move to a desolate place on the other side of the Atlantic, hoping to believe in religion and live freely according to their own wishes.

1620, the famous Mayflower arrived in America with 102 Puritans who could not bear the persecution of English religion. That winter, they met unimaginable difficulties and were hungry and cold.

At this time, Indians brought necessities to immigrants and taught them to hunt, fish and grow corn. With the help of Indians, the immigrants finally got a bumper harvest. On the day of celebrating the harvest, according to religious traditions and customs, immigrants set a day to thank God and decided to invite them to celebrate the festival together to thank the Indians for their sincere help.