Cherish a happy life, learn to be grateful and write a handwritten newspaper.

Thanksgiving story: A single woman just moved, and she found a poor widow and two children living next door. One night, there was a sudden power failure in that area, so the woman had to light the candles herself. After a while, I suddenly heard someone knocking at the door.

It turned out to be the child next door, only to see him nervously ask, "Aunt, do you have candles at home?" The woman thought, "Are they so poor that they don't even have candles? Never lend it to them, lest you depend on them! 」

So he yelled at the child: "No! Just as she was about to close the door, the poor child showed a caring smile and said, "I knew there was no one at home!" " After that, I took out two candles from my arms and said, "My mother and I were afraid that you would live alone and there were no candles, so we brought two to send you. 」

At this moment, the woman blamed herself, moved to tears and held the child tightly in her arms.

② Origin of Thanksgiving Day: Thanksgiving Day originated from early immigrants in Plymouth, Massachusetts. These immigrants were called Puritans in England. Dissatisfied with the incomplete religious reform of the Church of England and the political repression and religious persecution of the king and the Church of England, 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 live freely according to their own wishes.

1620 In September, the ship Mayflower left England with 102 Puritans and their families for North America. After more than two months of hard sailing, it landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and settled down from then on. In the first winter, more than half of these Puritans died at once because of lack of food, cold weather, epidemic disease and overwork. The following spring, Masasuode, the chief of the local Indian tribe, led the kind Indians, gave grain seeds to the Puritans and taught them to hunt, grow crops and fish. With the help of Indians, the Puritans had a bumper harvest that year. William bradford, the first governor, suggested setting up a festival to celebrate the harvest and thank God for his gift. At the same time, I also want to use this festival to strengthen the harmonious relationship between whites and Indians. 1621165438+1On a Thursday in late October, the Puritans brought by Massasod and 90 Indians got together to celebrate the first Thanksgiving in American history. Male Puritans go out hunting and catch turkeys, while women cook delicious food with corn, pumpkin, sweet potato and fruit at home. In this way, whites and Indians ate, chatted, sang and danced around the bonfire, and the whole celebration lasted for three days.

Since then, Europeans who immigrated to the United States have basically followed the form of the first Thanksgiving celebration on the North American continent. 1789, Washington, the first president of the United States, officially stipulated that165438+1October 26th was the first Thanksgiving celebrated by the whole country. However, for a long time, each state has set a holiday date according to its own situation. 194 1 year, with the approval of President Roosevelt, the U.S. Congress passed a bill declaring the fourth Thursday of June as the national Thanksgiving Day every year.

The meaning of gratitude: the definition of "gratitude" is "willing to express gratitude for benefits and give back to others". In short, it is "the grace of dripping water, and the spring is rewarded." First of all, gratitude is a virtue. When a person's behavior is not an obligation to cope, but a dedication, his behavior not only has moral value, but also has virtue value. Gratitude is from the heart, which goes beyond the scope and degree of obligation, so gratitude is not a general moral norm, but a virtue. Secondly, gratitude is a kind of wisdom. Gratitude comes from understanding, and a person who can't know himself correctly and is conceited won't be grateful; A person who can't correctly understand the goodwill of others will not be grateful. In today's life, there is a saying called "Long live understanding". People who can't understand others correctly will not be grateful. In life, if you give a person with mental retardation benefits, he or she won't even say "thank you". Therefore, if ingratitude is immoral, then ingratitude is unwise and ingratitude is impolite. Some people don't say "thank you", and it's not that they don't understand. To some extent, it is his rudeness. From this perspective, gratitude is a kind of wisdom. It can be seen that people who know how to be grateful are not only moral people, but also wise people. Rousseau said: A person who doesn't know how to be moved and grateful is the most ignorant and failed person, and also the one who deserves the least respect from others. Third, gratitude is an "investment", which should be rewarded. Gratitude is sowing a good cause. Grateful people do not expect returns subjectively, but they will return objectively, because everything is dialectical. There is an old saying in China that "good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil". "Give someone roses, your hands are full of fragrance", which is the truth.

(A) Gratitude is conducive to promoting harmony between people. Living with a grateful heart, people will be humble and have a friendly sense of awe to the outside world. Gratitude can strengthen emotional communication between people and promote harmonious coexistence between people. Building a harmonious society requires individual harmony. The essence of individual harmony is psychological harmony, which is most beneficial to people's psychological harmony.

(2) Gratitude helps to ease the contradictions in work and life. At present, there are many contradictions between work and life. For example, the provincial bureau regulates the payment of subsidies for Tianjin, and the income of cadres is low, while prices are rising, and the hands and feet are a little tight, and the purchasing power is declining. If we look at the existence of these contradictions with gratitude, we will understand the good intentions of superior decision-making, feel satisfied, and will not affect our work enthusiasm because of the relative reduction of income.

(C) Thanksgiving is conducive to enhancing the sense of social responsibility of cadres. As an ordinary person, if he lives in gratitude, he will be grateful to his parents, exercise so as not to worry about his parents, exercise his own ability, get a job of his own, make his parents' hard work in his growth for decades get due rewards, and increase their motivation to move forward. If, as a leading cadre, he is trusted by the masses, recommended by the masses and entrusted by the organization, if he works with gratitude, then he can do his work well. As a local tax cadre, if you can work with gratitude, you will have a sense of responsibility of "gathering wealth for the country". Gratitude can enhance personality charm and increase strength, thus making people more responsible for society. It can be said that only those who are grateful can achieve great things.