In a modern sense, Mothers` Day originated from the United States and initiated by Anna Jarvis. She was unmarried all her life. She always accompanied her mother around. His mother died in 1905, and Anna was distraught . Two years later, Anna and her friend began to write letters to the influential ministers, businessmen, congressmen to seek support to make Mothers` Day become a statutory holiday .
Anna believed that children often ignore their mothers` feeling. She hoped Mothers` Day could remind people of what their mothers did for the family. The first Mothers` Day was celebrated in West Virginia and Pennsylvania on May 10, 1908. During the festival, Carnation was chosen for mothers and then passed on.
In 1913, the United States Congress passed a bill to make the second Sunday of May each year become statutory Mothers` Day. Since then, Mothers`Day.
