Harvest and Gratitude · World Questions

If you were picking when to mark 'thanks for the harvest,' when would make the most sense?

Which of these harvest festivals was established in 2018 by State Council approval and fixed on the autumn equinox, rather than growing gradually out of folk custom?

Which image comes closest to what 'giving thanks for the harvest' means to you?

Which of these places sets its Farmers' Day before spring planting begins, rather than after the harvest is in?

In your part of the world, if there's a day set aside to give thanks for the harvest or for hard work, how do you usually mark it?

Among the places here, one 'Farmers' Day' is not placed after the harvest but before spring farming begins. Which one?

If your family marks a harvest or work-thanksgiving day, which of these comes closest?

Which place puts its Farmers' Day at the start of spring, before the work begins rather than after the harvest?

Among these four places, which one's harvest festival was only created by the government in 2018, and is not a day off for everyone?

If your family marks a harvest or thanks-giving kind of day, where does it usually center?

If you had to define your own 'harvest day,' what would matter to you most?

This harvest festival was only created in 2018 by State Council approval, made specifically for farmers, and set on the lunar calendar's autumn equinox — yet it isn't a day off for everyone, its theme is set anew each year by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and how it's marked differs from province to province. Where is this?

Which place sets its Farmers' Day at the start of spring, rather than after the harvest is in?

Is there a day each year when your family tries hard to get everyone to the same table?

In your culture or family, which of these is closest to how thanks after harvest actually happens?

Among the five places described, which one had its farmers' festival approved by the State Council in 2018, fixed on the autumn equinox, as the first national-level festival created specifically for farmers?

Where you grew up, which of these comes closest to how harvest or gratitude gets marked?

Which country had its government approve a brand-new festival in 2018, deliberately timed to a solar term rather than the lunar calendar or the week?

Among these four places, in which one was the harvest festival created only in 2018 by approval from the national government, rather than growing out of folk custom or a religious calendar?

When you think of a harvest or a bountiful year, which image feels closest to your own experience?

One harvest rite is not a national holiday: its date comes from a local calendar, it runs seven days straight, and the sequence includes a 'thousand lamps' and pounding grain together. Which place?

Which of these comes closest to how you personally mark a harvest?

If you got to decide when a 'harvest thanks' day falls, which way would you lean?

A prewar imperial new-grain rite was rewritten after the war into a day when the whole population thanks one another for their work — the date didn't move by a day. Which country?

One country's national holiday has a date far older than its name — the day was originally an imperial rite in which the emperor offered new grain to the gods, and only after the war was it rewritten into a national day of thanks for labour. Which country?

Where you live, what does a harvest or thanksgiving day usually center on?

If your family has an annual day when everyone tries to be together, how is that date usually fixed?

Which place fixes its "Farmers' Day" on the first day of spring, marking work about to begin rather than a harvest already in hand?

If you had to pick one scene that best captures what harvest and gratitude mean to you, which would it be?

Thanksgiving, the farmers' harvest festival, and Labour Thanksgiving Day all fall after the harvest is in — which place puts its Farmers' Day before the fieldwork even starts?

In your own life, which of these comes closest to a 'harvest' or 'thanksgiving' moment?

Which place's harvest/farmers' day comes before the planting season starts, not after the crop is in?

If where you live has a day tied to harvest or giving thanks, what matters to you most about it?

One place's 'Farmers' Day' doesn't celebrate a harvest already in — it's set on the day spring begins, just before the fields are worked again; the date is fixed by astronomy, so each year you have to check the calendar to know if it falls on 3, 4 or 5 February, and it isn't a day off. Where is this?

If you got to design a harvest festival, when would you want it to fall?

Which place's harvest festival is not a day off for everyone, but one approved by the government with a theme set annually by a ministry?

Where you live, if there's a holiday tied to the harvest, when does it usually fall?

Among the places mentioned above, whose farmers'/harvest holiday falls before the work of planting begins, rather than after the harvest is in?

If you had to set a day for giving thanks for the harvest, how would you pick it?

Which place puts its Farmers' Day not in autumn but at the start of spring — and doesn't give the day off?

If where you live has a harvest or thanksgiving-related day, what matters most to you about it?

Which place's farmers' day is fixed by astronomy rather than a set date, so the exact day has to be looked up each year in the weather authority's tables — and it isn't a day off?

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For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

Does anyone in your family still farm or grow food?

Guess: in which community is Thanksgiving a nationally recognised day fixed **by law** — yet an ordinary working day?

Guess: whose Thanksgiving falls in October, not November?

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For the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

Which meal of the year tastes most like harvest to you?

Guess: whose harvest rite runs seven days straight — carrying the rice, a thousand lamps, the whole village pounding grain together, and closing with residents of different faiths praying side by side?

Asked by the 🇯🇵 日本語 community

For the 🇮🇩 Bahasa Indonesia community

In which season does your harvest celebration fall?

Asked by the 🇨🇳 中文(简体) community

For the 🇧🇷 Português community

Do you have a day for giving thanks for the harvest? In which season?

Guess: in which community does Farmers' Day fall not after the harvest but on the first day of spring — that is, before the work has even begun?