Mother's Day

The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. Ancient Romans, too, celebrated a spring festival by the name of Hilaria in honor of Cybele, a mother goddess.

During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called “Mothering Sunday”. Celebrated on the 4th Sunday  of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter),

this holiday was expanded to include all mothers.
Children of poor families who were send to work as apprentice and domestic servants with the rich were allowed to visit their “Mother Church” or the Cathedral of their home town annually in the middle of Lent. Children met their mothers after visiting the church and presented them with flowers and special“Mothering Cakes”. The custom received a set back with the advent of Industrial Revolution when the lifestyles changes. 

In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meeting in Boston, Mass ever year. 

In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day.Ms.Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.

Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother’s Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.

In China, Mother's Day is becoming more popular, and carnations are a very popular gift and the most sold type of flower. In 1997 it was set as the day to help poor mothers, especially to remind people 

of the poor mothers in rural areas such as China's western region. In the People's Daily, the Chinese 

government's official newspaper, an article explained that “despite originating in the United States, people in China take the holiday with no hesitance because it goes in line with the country's traditional ethics- respect to the elderly and filial piety to parents.” 

In recent years the Communist Party member Li Hanqiu began to advocate for the official adoption of Mother's Day in memory of Meng Mu, the mother of Mencius and formed a nongovernmental organization called Chinese Mothers’ Festival Promotion Society, with the support of 100 Confucian scholars and lecturers of ethics. They also ask to replace the Western gift of carnations with lilies, which, in ancient times, were planted by Chinese mothers when children left home. It remains an unofficial festival, except in a small number of cities.

Mothers Day is a perfect time to thank your Mother and what better way to express your feelings than to say it with flowers. Delight your mother on her special day with Mothers Day Flower Bouquet and show her how much you love her.

Here is a list of the Most Popular Mothers Day Flower Arrangements:
Mixed bouquets
Carnations
Daffodils
Roses
Tulips
Freesia
Pot chrysanthemums
Iris
Lily
Foliage plants

You are the best mom that a son ever had.
您是儿子心中最好的妈妈。

Here's a little token of my appreciation for all that you have done for me over the years.
这是我一点小小的心意，感谢您这么多年来所付出的一切。

Sometimes it may not seem like it, but I really do love you.
有时候可能您看不出，但是我真的爱您。

I want to wish you a happy Mother’s Day.
母亲节快乐！

Thank you for everything over the years, mom.
妈妈，谢谢您这些年来所做的一切。

We would love to fix breakfast for you mom, but we think it would be safer for us all if 

妈妈，我们很想为您准备早餐，不过我们想，如果带您上馆子，会比较保险一点。

This is the day that we appreciate all the things that moms do for us. Thank you!
在这个日子里，我们感谢妈妈为我们所做的一切。谢谢您！