农历九月九日，为传统的重阳节。重阳节又称为"双九节""老人节"因为古老的《易经》中把“六”定为阴数，把“九”定为阳数，九月九日，日月并阳，两九相重，故而叫重阳，也叫重九，古人认为是个值得庆贺的吉利日子，并且从很早就开始过此节日。庆祝重阳节的活动多彩浪漫，一般包括出游赏景、登高远眺、观赏菊花、遍插茱萸、吃重阳糕、饮菊花酒等活动。九九重阳，因为与“久久”同音，九在数字中又是最大数，有长久长寿的含义，况且秋季也是一年收获的黄金季节，重阳佳节，寓意深远，人们对此节历来有着特殊的感情，唐诗宋词中有不少贺重阳，咏菊花的诗词佳作。
　　重阳节是杂糅多种民俗为一体而形成的传统节日，同时它也不像春节、端午、中秋等是多民族共同节日，而为汉族所独有。
　　重阳节是一个岁时节日。在中国岁时节令中

Memorial Day（美国阵亡将士纪念日）It was 1866 and the United States was recovering from the long and bloody Civil War between the North and the South. Surviving soldiers came home, some with missing limbs, and all with stories to tell. Henry Welles, a drugstore owner in Waterloo, New York, heard the stories and had an idea. He suggested that all the

Shavuot（息汪月）]Shavuot, the Feast of the Weeks, is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest season in Israel. Shavuot, which means "weeks", refers to the timing of the festival which is held exactly 7 weeks after Passover. Shavuot is known also as Yom Habikkurim, or "the Day of the First Fruits", ause it is the time the farmers of Israel w

World Environment Day（世界环境日）]World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of UNEP（联合国环境规划署United Nations Environment Programme）.
World En

Flag Day（美国国旗日）]National flags are not merely symbols of a country. Their colors and designs convey past history and future goals. Flags have powerful connotations（内涵）. They speak to the people and politicians. People of one country will burn the flag of another with whose politics they do not ae. To show their anger, students display thei

Deaf-Blind Awareness Week（海伦•凯勒周）June 27, 2000, is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Helen Keller, and each year the week in which her birthday falls is recognized as Deaf-Blind Awareness Week. In honor of Helen Keller -- and other members of the deaf-blind community, this week is dedicated to the deaf-blind.
Every year t

Phi Ta Khon Festival（佛诞节）Everyone loves a good ghost story. The gruesome, the spiritual and the supernatural arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. In the west, ghostly fervor reaches a peak with Halloween on October 31. In Thailand, the spirit-world comes closest to us in June with the Phi Ta Khon festival, an event filled with fun

Spring Festival（春节）The New Moon on the first day of the new year-- the full moon 15 days later
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon（新月）on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon（满月）15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, which is celebrated at night with lanter

Coming-of-Age Day （日本成人节)The second Monday of January is Coming-of-Age Day, a national holiday to encourage those who have newly entered adulthood to ome self-reliant members of society. The holiday used to be on January 15, but in 2000 it was moved to the second Monday of the month.
Municipal governments host special coming-of-age cere

Dr. Martin Luther King Day（马丁•路德̶
It was December, 1955, and Martin Luther King, Jr. had just received his doctorate dee in theology（神学）. He had moved to Montgomery（ 蒙哥马利）, Alabama to preach at a Baptist church. He saw there, as in many other southern states, that African-Americans had to ride in the back of

Mardi Gras（四旬斋前的狂欢节）]Mardi Gras is a traditional holiday celebrated in many of the southern states of the USA. The most famous celebration takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. The people there enjoy this celebration by going to parades where they catch "beads, doubloons, cups, and trinkets" that are all thrown from floats.
They have

Arbor Day（植树节）In many countries it has long been the tradition to hold an annual tree or forest festival. The origin of such celebrations dates back to antiquity and is in the dawn of religious feeling and awe for what trees represented. However, Arbor Day, as it is commonly known today, is of American origin and evolved from conditions pe

Earth Day（世界地球日）Earth Day was first observed in Spring of 1970. An estimated 20 million people nationwide attended festivities out of which came the largest grassroots environmental movement in U.S. history, and the impetus for national legislation like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. By the twentieth anniversary of that event, April 2

World Aids Day（世界艾滋病日）]According to UNAIDS（联合国艾滋病规划署）estimates there were 38.6 million adults and 3.2 million children living with HIV at the end of 2002, and during the year 5 million new people ame infected with the virus. Around half of all people who ome infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are

爸爸不论何时你都是我的拐杖，给我支持，给我方向，给我力量，让我可以走好今后的每一段路。也许有一天，你老到无法再给我支持，但在我心里那份浓浓的父爱仍然会帮助我直到永远！
　　当我遇到挫折和困难时，我第一个想起的就是您，当我遇到快乐大转盘时，我第一个告诉也是您----我的爸爸.我爱您！
　　爸爸，您是我们这个家庭的支柱，您的快乐就是全家人的快乐，祝您节日愉快！
　　爸爸，你生我育我，我能到今天，离不开您的支持，可我有时说话不知轻重，冒犯了您，请您别放在心上，今天是父亲节，祝您节日快乐！
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