Thanksgiving 2020:  Know about the History and Significance of the Festival

Thanksgiving Day is a traditional festival celebrated in North America, it is also a kind of harvest festival. In the US, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated as a festival. This day is a national holiday. On this day people thank each other and pray to God for the coming year. 

Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and many countries across the world with various traditions and rituals.

Thanksgiving has a deep significance in the history of America and its cultural traditions. Americans believe that their thanksgiving started after the 1621 harvest feast shared by the English Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Native American Wampanoag people.

This was acknowledged as the first Thanksgiving and for the following two centuries many individual colonies and states celebrated this festival on various days.

In 1863, during the American civil war, then President Abraham Lincoln declared a national Thanksgiving Day that was to be celebrated on each November.

The turkey is central to the celebration of Thanksgiving Day. This tradition is even carried out by the President of the United States of America who pardons the turkey on the morning of the Thanksgiving celebration.

Thanksgiving 2020: Know about the History and Significance of the Festival