As a holiday thanks for the mothers, the Mother's Day was first appeared in ancient Greece, the date is on annual January 8, while in the United States, Canada and some other countries, it is on the second Sunday in May each year, while in some other countries, the date of Mother's Day is also different. On such a special day Mothers will received gifts usually.
Generally, people considered carnations as a special flower that suited for devoted to mothers, and in China, the mother's flower is Hemerocallis, which also known as Wang-You-Cao.
The Mother's Day is popular firstly in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, and then been accepted in the mainland later. Expensive jewelry, carnations flowers that represents motherly love, love desserts made specially, exquisite handmade greeting cards and so on, all have become popular mother's day gifts that used to presents love to mothers…
As of 80s, 20th century, Mother's Day in Mainland China is gradually accepted by the people widely, and since 1988, there are some cities such as Guangzhou in southern China and some other cities started to organize celebration activities for Mother's Day, one of important parts of which is to judged the "good mother". At the end of the 20th century, this holiday was spread increasingly in many areas in mainland China. Today, on the second Sunday in May each year, together with people in other countries in the world, the Chinese people are accustomed to express love and thanks to mothers…
Of course, Mother's Day in China has more Chinese flavor, Chinese people used their special way to express their deep love and thanks to mothers. On the Mother's Day annually, people will give away fresh flowers, sweet cakes and hand-prepared meals and so on to mothers, children used to dutiful from their childhood will try to prepared dinners for mother, as well as washing face, make up and painting pictures for mother, and try best to give their mothers a happy and joyful holiday…
Aside from expressing love to mothers on this day, people will also do charitable donations and volunteer services, via which and other type of actions to express love and thanks to more mothers in the society…
On this day of Mother's Day, Chinese mothers will held cooking competitions, fashion shows as well as other type of activities such as mothers tourism, "excellent mothers" selection and so on in different areas, thus to celebrate their own festival.
Respect for mother, the Mother's Day to promote mother's love, has become a conventional festival in China.
* * Original address of this China gift post: China Gift and Fine Arts & Crafts in China
