The history of Mother's Day is centuries old and goes back to the times of ancient Greeks, who held festivities to honor Rhea, the mother of the gods. The early Christians celebrated the Mother's festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent to honor Mary, the mother of Christ. Interestingly, later on a religious order stretched the holiday to include all mothers, and named it as the Mothering Sunday. The English colonists settled in America discontinued the tradition of Mothering Sunday because of lack of time. In 1872 Julia Ward Howe organized a day for mothers dedicated to peace. It is a landmark in the history of Mother's Day.

　　母親節(jié)的歷史可以追溯到幾百年前的古希臘，當時，人們都會舉行慶祝活動紀念Rhea(瑞亞)，(古希臘的眾神之母，她是主神宙斯和天后赫拉的母親)。早期的基督徒在大齋節(jié)的第四個星期日節(jié)日慶祝母親節(jié)來紀念榮Mary(基督的母親)。有趣的是，宗教秩序的改革使得這一節(jié)日包括了全體的母親，并將這一日命名為“母親節(jié)”。后來，在美國定居的英國殖民者由于缺少時間停止了這項傳統(tǒng)。1872年朱麗婭伍德霍夫以致力于和平為母親們設立一個節(jié)日。這是母親節(jié)在歷史上的里程碑。

　　In 1907, Anna M. Jarvis (1864-1948), a Philadelphia schoolteacher, began a movement to set up a national Mother's Day in honor of her mother, Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis. She solicited the help of hundreds of legislators and prominent businessmen to create a special day to honor mothers. The first Mother's Day observance was a church service honoring Anna's mother. Anna handed out her mother's favorite flowers, the white incarnations, on the occasion as they represent sweetness, purity, and patience. Anna's hard work finally paid off in the year 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday in May as a national holiday in honor of mothers.

　　1907年，一位費城教師，安娜米賈維斯(1864-1948)，開始了一項在全國范圍內(nèi)紀念母親的的節(jié)日，安娜米賈維斯榮譽日。她征求了數(shù)以百計的立法者和商界翹楚一起來創(chuàng)立一個特殊的日子來紀念母親。第一個母親節(jié)慶祝表彰是在一個教堂為安娜母親舉辦的。安娜在儀式上發(fā)放了她母親最喜愛的白色花朵，這是甜蜜，純潔，耐心的化身。安娜的努力終于在1914年得到了回報，時任總統(tǒng)伍德羅威爾遜宣布將五月的第二個星期天作為母親。

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