Mother's day in Vietnam 2009

This year 2009,Vietnamese people will celebrate 1st Mother's day.Biz
and many children in Vietnam hope our mothers will always be
healthy,beautiful, and know that WE LOVE YOU  FOREVER,and WE'RE PROUD
OF BEING YOUR CHILDREN

The modern Mother's Day holiday was
created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor its mother,[1]
and it's now celebrated on various days in many places around the
world. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

This
holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th
century, and should not be confused with the early pagan and Christian
traditions honoring mothers, or with the 16th century celebration of
Mothering Sunday, which is also known as Mother's Day in the UK.

In
most countries the Mother's Day celebration is a recent holiday derived
from the original US celebration. Exceptions are, for example, the
Mothering Sunday holiday in the UK.

Different
countries celebrate Mother's Day on various days of the year because
the day has a number of different origins.[citation needed]

One
school of thought[who?] claims this day emerged from a custom of mother
worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great
mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox
around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March
(15 March) to 18 March.

The
ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated
to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.

In addition to Mother's Day, International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries on March 8.

n
most countries, Mother's Day is a recent observance derived from the
holiday as it has evolved in North America and Europe. Many African
countries adopted the idea of one Mother's Day from the British
tradition, although there are many festivals and events celebrating
mothers within the many diverse cultures on the African continent that
long pre-date colonization.

 Japan

Mother's
Day in Japan was initially commemorated during the Shōwa period as the
birthday of Empress Kōjun (mother of Emperor Akihito). Nowadays - as in
the United States - the holiday is a heavily marketed concept, and
people typically give flowers such as carnations and roses as gifts.

China

InChina, Mother's Day is becoming more popular, and carnations are a very
popular gift and the most sold type of flower.[12] In 1997 it was set
as the day to help poor mothers, specially to remind people of the poor
mothers on rural areas such as China's west.In the People's Daily, the
Communist Party of China's journal, an article explained that "despite
originating in the United States, people in China take the holiday with
no hesitance because it goes in line with the country's traditional
ethics -- respect to the elderly and filial piety to parents."

In
recent years Communist Party of China's member Li Hanqiu began to
advocate for the official adoption of Mother's Day in memory of Meng
Mu, the mother of Mèng Zǐ, and formed a Non-governmental organization
called Chinese Mothers' Festival Promotion Society, with the support of
100 Confucian scholars and lecturers of ethics. They also ask to
replace the Western gift of carnations with lilies, which, on ancient
times, were planted by Chinese mothers when children left home.[14] It
remains an unofficial festival, except in a small number of cities.

 Greece

Mother's
Day in Greece corresponds to the Eastern Orthodox feast day of the
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Since the Theotokos (The Mother of
God) appears prominently in this feast as the one who brought Christ to
the Temple at Jerusalem, this feast is associated with
mothers.[citation needed]

 Iran

Celebrated
on 20 Jumada al-thani, the birthday anniversary of Fatima, Muhammad's
daughter. [7] It was changed after the Iranian revolution, the reason
having been theorized as trying to undercut feminist movements and
promoting role models for the traditional model of family. [15][16] It
was previously 25 Azar on Iranian calendar during the Shah era[citation
needed]

 United Kingdom and Ireland
Main article: Mothering Sunday

In
the United Kingdom and Ireland, Mothering Sunday falls on the fourth
Sunday of Lent, exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday (March 22 in
2009). It is believed to have originated from the 16th century
Christian practice of visiting one's mother's church annually, which
meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this
day. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in
servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit
their families.[17] As a result of secularization, it is now
principally used to show appreciation to one's mother, although it is
still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with
attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ as well as the
traditional concept 'Mother Church'.

Mothering
Sunday can fall at the earliest on 1 March (in years when Easter Day
falls on 22 March) and at the latest on 4 April (when Easter Day falls
on 25 April).

 United States / Canada
Main article: Mother's Day (North America)
A selection of handmade Mother's Day gifts.

North
America celebrates Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May (May 10 in
2009). In the United States, Mother's Day was inspired by the British
day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the
American Civil War. It was, however, intended as a call to unite women
against war. In 1870, she wrote the Mother's Day Proclamation as a call
for peace and disarmament. Howe failed in her attempt to get formal
recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace.

Her
idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who,
starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she
called Mother's Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War
to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she
began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.

Frank
E. Hering, President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, made the first
known public plea for "a national day to honor our mothers" in 1904.
[18][19]

When
Jarvis died in 1905, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the
crusade to found a memorial day for women. In 1907, she passed out 500
white carnations at her mother’s church, St. Andrew’s Methodist
Episcopal Church in Grafton, West Virginia—one for each mother in the
congregation. The first Mother's Day service was celebrated on 10 May
1908, in the same church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught Sunday
School. Anna chose Sunday to be Mother's Day because she intended the
day to be commemorated and treated as a Holy Day.

Originally
the Andrew's Methodist Episcopal Church, the site of the original
Mother's Day commemoration, where Anna handed out carnations, this
building is now the International Mother's Day Shrine (a National
Historic Landmark). From there, the custom caught on—spreading
eventually to 46 states. The holiday was declared officially by some
states beginning in 1912, beginning with West Virginia. On May 8, 1914,
the U.S. Congress passed a law designating the second Sunday in May as
Mother's Day and requesting a proclamation. [20][21] On May 9, 1914,
President Woodrow Wilson made that proclamation, declaring the first
national Mother's Day, [22][20] as a day for American citizens to show
the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war. [20]

Carnations
have come to represent Mother's Day, since they were delivered at one
of its first celebrations by its founder. [22] This also started the
custom of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. [18] The founder, Anna
Jarvis, delivered a single white carnation to every person, a symbol of
the purity of a mother's love. [23][1][24] She chose the carnation
because it was the favorite flower of her mother.[25] In part due to
the shortage of white carnations, and in part due to the efforts to
expand the sales of more types of flowers in Mother's Day, the florists
promoted wearing a red carnation if your mother was living, and a white
one if was dead; this was tirelessly promoted until it made its way
into the popular observations at churches.[23][18]

In
May 2008, the US House of Representatives voted twice on a resolution
commemorating Mother's Day, [3][4], the first one being unanimous so
that all congressmen would be on record showing support for Mother's
Day.[citation needed]

 Commercialization

Nine
years after the first official Mother's Day, commercialization of the
U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major
opponent of what the holiday had become and spent all her inheritance
and the rest of her life fighting what she saw as an abuse of the
celebration.[1]

Later
commercial and other exploitations of the use of Mother's Day
infuriated Anna and she made her criticisms explicitly known throughout
her time.[24][1] She criticized the practice of purchasing greeting
cards, which she saw as a sign of being too lazy to write a personal
letter. She was arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace while
protesting against the commercialization of Mother's Day, and she
finally said that she "wished she would have never started the day
because it became so out of control ...".[24]

Mother's
Day continues to this day to be one of the most commercially-successful
U.S. occasions. According to the National Restaurant Association,
Mother's Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a
restaurant in the United States.

For
example, according to IBISWorld, a publisher of business research,
Americans will spend approximately $2.6 billion on flowers, $1.53
billion on pampering gifts—like spa treatments—and another $68 million
on greeting cards.

Mother's
Day will generate about 7.8% of the U.S. jewelry industry's annual
revenue in 2008, with custom gifts like Mother's ring