三八婦女節International Women’s Day

On March 8th, 1975, the United Nation started to celebrate the International Women’s Day. In China, the women’s day also called “March 8th”day. Why we celebrate women’s day? There is a long story. 

在1975年的3月8日，聯合國開始慶祝國際婦女節。在中國，這個節日又被稱之爲“三八婦女節”。爲什麼我們要慶祝婦女節呢？這裏有個故事要說： On March 8th, 1909, the Women’s Union of Chicago demonstrated against the inequality between men and women. They demanded that they should have the same payments, the same working hours as men had, and they should have the rights to vote. They even put forward a slogan: Bread and Rose, which stood for equal payment and a better living standard. This demonstrated had caused international attention to the women’s rights. A year later, a critical meeting was held in Demark, in order to promote the women’s liberation and equal rights, the council members decided to establish the Women’s Day on March 8th. Then March 8th, 1911 just became the first Women’s day. 

在1090年3月8日，芝加哥婦女公會爲了反對男女之間的不平等而舉行了遊行示威。在遊行示威中，她們要求男女應該同工同酬，並擁有選舉權。她們還提出了“麪包和玫瑰”口號。其中，“麪包”代表平等的報酬，“玫瑰”則表示更好的生活品質。一年之後，在丹麥召開了至關重要的會議，會議宣佈爲了促進婦女的解放運動和推進平等權利，理事會成員把每年的3月8日定爲婦女節。隨後，在1911年的3月8日，第一屆婦女節就這樣誕生了。

In our country, during the women’s day, the women usually have a day-off holiday. The communities or companies will organize the recreational activities such as a spring outing, a nice dinner and some extra welfare. On this special day, the women can really realize that a woman’s value is not only giving birth to a child, doing endless housework, but also find her own status in the modern society. That is she can make a different. She can do everything that a man can do. When you look around, you will find that more and more women are acting as scientists, doctors, lawyers, even leaders. Just try to remember, women rule half of this world. The life could quite different without their wisdom and beauty. 

在我國，在婦女節這天，女人們通常不用上班。婦女所在的社區或者是公司會組織娛樂活動。比如春遊、節日聚餐和發放額外的獎金。在這特別的一天裏，女人會意識到：作爲一個女人，不僅僅是生孩子，做家務，而是在社會中找到自己的地位。女人也可以有所作爲。男人能做的事情，女人也能做。當你環顧四周，就會發現越來越多的女人從事着各類工作，如教授、醫生、律師、甚至領導。要記住這一點，這個世界的一半由女人來統治。少了女人的智慧和美麗，這個世界將大有不同。

 Happy International Women’s Day!

 國際婦女節快樂！