In China, Children’s Day is celebrated on June 1 and is formally known as “the June 1 International Children’s Day”. Schools usually hold activities such as camping trips or free movies on Children’s Day to allow students to have fun, and children might also receive small gifts from the government. Entrance ceremonies of the Young Pioneers of China are usually held on June 1 as well. InChina, it is a big day for children. On June 1, except join some activities, their parents also take children to parks or fairground to have fun, and then have a big dinner. In general, McDonald’s and KFC are the most popular.
Our school will have a performance at the night of children’s day. And several classmates and I are going to perform a fairy tale------Snow White. I will perform the role snow white. I will wait for my prince to kiss me to wake me up. Then we will have a happy life. Although we have practice many times, I still feel nervous. But I believe in myself, and I also believe in my classmates. Wait for our wonderful performance!
The day before yesterday was the Children's Day. Our city held an interesting activity, in which children and their parents played the rich and the poor. In the dinner, the rich could have delicious food, but the poor could only have bread with porridge. Parents all hoped to have the dinner for the poor with the children. They hoped that their children could be taught a lesson from the dinner.
Now many people on earth don't have enough food or clothes. Every day only one half of the world could enjoy enough food. The activity was held to make the families understand the differences between the poor and the rich and also make the parents know that too much material life won't always do good to the children.
Children's Day is a holiday in many countries around the world; mainly the holiday's purpose is to simply honor children.
International Children's Day
The International Children's Day (ICD) is celebrated in numerous countries, usually (but not always) on June 1 each year.
The ICD had its origin in the World Conference for the Wellbeing of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925. It is not clear as to why June 1 was chosen as the ICD: one theory has it that the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco (USA) gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in 1925, which happened to be on June 1 that year, and also coincided with the conference in Geneva.
June 1 has since been observed as the ICD by numerous countries, especially by Communist countries; in the Western world the ICD is usually celebrated on other days of the year (if at all), and there is often little public awareness about these celebrations. (See the section on Germany below for further discussions.) Consequently there is sometimes a misperception that June 1 as the ICD was a Communist invention. Nonetheless, in recent years even some groups within the United States started observing the ICD on June 1.
Universal Children's Day
Since December 14, 1954, United Nations and UNESCO observes 20 November as the Universal Children's Day.