敬重母亲、弘扬母爱的母亲节，至今已成为一个约定俗成的国际性节日。一起来了解一下母亲节的由来吧。

　　Respect for the mother, the mother's Day promotion of maternal love, has become a customary international festival. A look at the history of mother's day.

　　历史学家声称最早可能是在古希腊，人们庆祝莉雅女神的节日。这女神就是宙斯的母亲，几乎希腊所有的神都从她而出。在这一天，古希腊人向希腊众神之母希布莉，宙斯、波塞冬、哈德斯、得墨忒耳、赫拉和赫斯提亚的母亲，故称众神之母)致敬。到古罗马时，这些活动的规模就变得更大，庆祝盛况往往持续达三天之久。当然，古时人们对女神的崇拜只不过是一种迷信，它同今天人们对母性的尊敬是大不相同的。

　　Historians claim that the earliest possible in ancient Greece, people celebrate the festival of the goddess liya. This is the goddess Jose's mother, almost all of the Greek gods are out from her. On this day, the ancient Greeks to the mother of Greek gods Zeus, Poseidon, Sibley, Hades, Demeter, Hera and Hess said, mother, the mother of the gods). In ancient Rome, the scale of these activities becomes bigger, to celebrate the grand often lasted for three days. Of course, the ancient people of the goddess worship is only a superstition, it is with people today respect of motherhood is not the same.

　　在17世纪中叶，母亲节流传到英国，英国人把封斋期的第四个星期天作为母亲节。在这一天里，出门在外的年轻人将回到家中，给他们的母亲带上一些小礼物。

　　In the middle of the seventeenth Century, mother's day spread to Britain, the British on the fourth Sunday of Lent as a mother's day. On this day, the young people away from home, to their mother to bring some small gifts.

　　第一个母亲节于1908年5月10 日在西弗吉尼亚和宾夕法尼亚州举行，在这次节日里，康乃被选中为献给母亲的花，并以此流传下来。

　　The first mother's day on May 10, 1908 in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, during the festival, Kang was selected for the flowers to my mother, and then handed down.

　　1913年，美国国会通过了一份议案，将每年5 月的第二个星期天作为法定的母亲节。母亲节从此流传开来!

　　In 1913, the United States Congress passed a bill, the second Sunday of May each year as national Mother "s day. Since then spread to mother's Day!