British English Holidays Harvest Festival

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
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