有圖有真相（二）：美國的三月文化和曆史（組圖）

三月份美國的主要節日是：Mardi Gras，St Patrick’s Day，和春天的正式到來。

Mardi Gras 是在基督教的 Shrove Tuesday (懺悔星期二) 舉行的狂歡節，即在 Lent (大齋節) 開始的前一天。

St Patrick's Day 一般在3月17日，是愛爾蘭的法定假日，中文官方翻譯為聖帕特裏克節，是為了紀念把基督教帶入愛爾蘭的聖人並由他的名字命名的最具愛爾蘭特色的節日。

春天到來，大地回春，萬物更新，一派生氣。。。








































In like a lion, out like a lamb.


For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

Algernon Charles Swinburne(1837–1909)

Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

[JoshuaChow]

Yes, March is also the National Nutrition Month（http://www.eatright.org/nnm/）and Kidney Month（http://www.kidney.org/kidneydisease/kidneymonth/）。

[jnr]

March is also women's history month in USA.