这第一次的丰收庆祝盛宴据说从三天一直延长到一个星期。对于清教徒们来说，这的确是一段享受高兴、愉悦、友谊的时间。他们和善良的当地印第安人一起准备了庆祝盛宴，在荒野中盖了房子，并为即将来临的漫长冬天储存了充足的食物。于是，在这块充满希望、憧憬和向往的新大陆上，清教徒们便成了第一代移民定居者。
Fromthen on，Thanksgiving became a holiday for celebrating the harvest in the New World，dates varied from October to November each year over the next 150 years.
从那以后的150多年里，感恩节便成为一个庆祝新大陆丰收的固定节日，在每年的10月或11月举行庆祝活动。
The National Holiday 全国性的节日
The first National Thanksgiving was declared by the Continental Congress in 1777. On October 3，1789，President George Washington declared that the people of the United States should observe “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer”on Thursday，26November.In 1941，a Congressional Joint Resolution set the fourth Thursday of November as a national holiday for Thanksgiving.
