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
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