The United States important holiday "Thanksgiving" is coming, about october, the United States community, organization, institutions will set off a wave of charity, the most common and popular is the name of the turtle drive charity fundraising activities, Manster International in thanksgiving series of charity activities the theme is also turtle drive.
Today we're going to talk about the story of this turkey drive, which is rich in American cultural history.
Turkey drive, translated as Chinese, it is difficult to find the right word, here the turkey refers to a wild bird with great roots in the United States - turkey (although the English of "Turkey" is also turkey), we can translate this word group as "catching turkey", so why should drive translate the word "rush"? There are some Chinese media will translate as "trotting" or "slow walking" or "grasping", but if you know the relevant history of the Turkey drive in the West, then there is detailed historical data to support, Turkey drive translates as "catching turkey" is the most appropriate.
(Above, a farmer drives his flock of turkeys along Norfolk Road to the market; existing hulton archive/getty images)
In the 17th century, both refrigerated trucks and refrigerated train cars did not yet appear, and catching turkeys was the only way to transport poultry from farms to markets. Such a drive is similar to a man-made migration of large animals: thousands of birds and birds (turkeys or domestic geese) are sometimes driven hundreds of miles in a matter of days, and when the turkeys arrive at their destination, they are sold to merchants or individuals at the market. Usually this "migration" is regular, for example in the British writer Naomi. In his book The Agricultural Revolution in Norfolk, Riches writes: "About 150,000 turkeys are driven from norfolk farms to London livestock markets more than 100 miles away every year."
With the advent of the First Industrial Revolution, people chose to use more convenient and efficient modes of transport to transport turkeys. At the beginning of the 20th century, the pomp and circumstance of artificially driving turkeys gradually declined and evolved into a rare tourism project. In the small town of Cuero, Texas, for example, farmers in the United States retained the ancient method of manually driving turkeys before 1930, which attracted a large number of tourists to the town.
(Photograph of a turkey trotting in Cujero, Texas, circa 1913, now in the Texas Archives)
Meanwhile, a dance craze known as "Turkey Fast Step" is sweeping the country. The savvy citizens of Cuero decided to take advantage of this trend by hosting a celebration of turkeys exclusively for tourists called turkey trot (Turkey Brisk Walk or Turkey Jogging), which attracted 30,000 spectators. The event inspired imitators across the country and has become a traditional thanksgiving public program that brings the whole family together, with men, women and children (even their pet dogs) joining the turkey jogging team.
During Thanksgiving, in addition to eating turkey, Americans are also keen on donation activities, the original idea is to donate a "turkey" to poor families in need of help, the name of the donation activity was called turkey drive, after which the activity was popular with the public, and the donation program was also extended to food, gift cards and cash, etc., but the purpose of its charity has never changed.
Back to the turkey, the protagonist of the Thanksgiving feast of American families, according to statistics, Americans ate a total of 45 million turkeys on Thanksgiving in 2018! Although turkey has become an important part of American culture, more and more, especially a new generation of Americans, has forgotten this history of turkey drive, when the juicy turkey is served from the oven to the Table of Thanksgiving, steaming and mouth-watering, who would have thought that the army of turkeys once walked on dusty country roads and trekked thousands of miles to people's tables.
【About Turkey】
Turkeys are native to Canada, the United States and Mexico. He likes to live in groups, has a gentle temperament, and is slow to move. It feeds on the stems, leaves, seeds, and fruits of plants, as well as insects, and occasionally frogs and lizards. It usually inhabits the ground, makes a crunching sound, and feeds for insects, crustaceans, lizards, as well as cereals, vegetables, fruits, etc. Groups sleep in trees at night. When frightened, they quickly run to a hidden place. Wild turkeys can fly short distances at speeds of up to 55 miles per hour, at about 88.5/km/h. But domestic turkeys are no longer able to, and their wings can no longer carry their body weight.
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