字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 hi everyone I'm Gina in September we harvest the crops that have grown throughout the year and the harvest festival is a celebration of the food that we have cultivated in the land in this lesson you're going to learn about what the harvest festival means to the UK the word harvest comes from the old english word hair first what does hair fest mean we'll show you the answer at the end of this video traditionally the harvest festival is held on or near the sunday of the Harvest Moon the Harvest Moon is a full moon that is closest to the autumn all equinox two times out of three this falls within September but on those rare occasions it occurs in October in the UK the main places that celebrate the Harvest Festival are churches and schools churches decorate with baskets of fruit and other produce and say prayers and sing hymns to give thanks for previous successful harvests and hope for continued success in the future it is not a public holiday but it's still an important date in the calendar in the UK schools may hold assemblies such as similar to the church services but they also asked students to bring food to the school the food is then parceled up so that it can be distributed to those less fortunate as a harvest festival is also about helping those in need as much as possible although harvest celebrations can be traced back to pagan festivals the modern harvest festival began in 1843 when parishioners in Cornwall were invited to a Thanksgiving service by the Reverend at that time and now I'll give you the answer to the earlier quiz the word harvest comes from the old english word hair fest what does half-assed mean hair fest is the old english word for autumn the meaning evolved however and it came to mean the season for reaping and gathering grain how is this lesson did you learn something interesting do you have any harvest festivals in your country leave us a comment at English class 101.com and we'll see you in the next lesson you
B1 中級 英式英語假期 - 豐收節 (British English Holidays - Harvest Festival) 23 0 林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日 更多分享 分享 收藏 回報 影片單字