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今天是母亲节。大家都知道母亲节是向母亲表达爱意的日子，但你知道母亲节的起源吗？关于母亲节你了解多少呢？ Photo by ekrem osmanoglu on Unsplash 1. THE DAY WAS FIRST SUGGESTED BY A FAMOUS POET. 母亲节最初是一位著名诗人提议的。 The woman who first proposed Mother's Day in 1870 was the same woman who wrote the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." After the Civil War, writer Julia Ward Howe suggested a Mother's Day to recognize peace and protest war. She organized annual events in Boston to honor mothers, but despite her work, nothing official came of her efforts. 1870年最先提议设立母亲节的女性就是为《共和国战歌》写词的人。在美国内战结束后，作家朱莉娅·沃德·豪伊建议设立母亲节来赞颂和平、抗议战争。她在波斯顿组织了几场向母亲致敬的年度活动，但尽管她付出了努力，这些活动都没有被官方保留下来。 2. THE FOUNDER FOUGHT BACK. 母亲节的创立者反过来要废除这一节日。 Although Julia Ward Howe first suggested a day for mothers, Anna Jarvis (who had no children of her own) campaigned for a national day of observance for moms, in remembrance of her own mother, Ann Jarvis, who had spent years working to provide resources for poor mothers in West Virginia. Mother's Day became a designated holiday in 1914, but within a few years, Jarvis became disgusted with how commercial the day had become and started a petition to rescind the holiday. (That clearly didn't come to pass.) | 
