Talk:Harvest festival

Victorian Hymns

I'd like to suggest an edit for this section: The current revision reads: "Victorian hymns such as "We plough the fields and scatter", "Come ye thankful people, come" and "All things bright and beautiful" but also Dutch and German harvest hymns in translation helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service. Another early adopter of the custom as an organised part of the Church of England calendar was Rev. Piers Claughton at Elton, Huntingdonshire in or about 1854.[3]"

Since, "We Plough the Fields and Scatter" is a German hymn in translation can we look into finding one more hymn that is documented to have been sung in mid 19th century English Harvest festival services. Then edit so the sentence reads: Victorian hymns such as "X", "Come ye thankful people, come" and "All things bright and beautiful" but also Dutch and German harvest hymns, in translation such as "We Plow the Fields and Scatter" helped popularise his idea of harvest festival and spread the annual custom of decorating churches with home-grown produce for the Harvest Festival service. Another early adopter of the custom as an organised part of the Church of England calendar was Rev. Piers Claughton at Elton, Huntingdonshire in or about 1854.[3]

I'll try to remember to come back in a few weeks, and if no one has already done so, or if there is no discussion on the page, I will make an edit that tries to incorporate this suggestion and see how that works. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.242.63.166 (talk) 05:44, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

World view

I placed {{worldview}} on this article, as it seem to focus primarly on Britain and ignore the many cultures around the world that also have harvest festivals. Jeepday (talk) 12:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harvest_Festivals —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.141.179 (talk) 11:15, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

When is it? there needs to be a "Date" title in big bold easy to find letters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.203.21 (talk) 15:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

World view and why???

just wondering if you started the article?. because the person who started it probably meant it as something specific. Its not a general harvest festival"...its specifically called harvest or harvest festival and is from the UK. In some parts of the Caribbean its called Harvest!!, because they were U.K colonies.

A section should be added or another page created called harvest festivals around the world.

In some places, Harvest/ Harvest Festival is associated with a church, and giving thanks in the church and the village for the harvest crop or harvesting bounty. This was an endeavor by the Christian churches to get more converts away from the Pagan community who celebrated the end of harvest for two thousand years or more. (Added note: 'pagan' comes from 'pagani' which meant 'commoner'. ie.-the religion of the common people. )

It is not the same thing as thanksgiving in the US (on the 4th thursday in November) or Canada (on October 10th) which (at least in urban areas)is associated with a big family dinner and general day to give thanks for family, community and other things. While the U.S./ Canadian thanksgivings probably originated from Harvest it is not quite the same thing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starbwoy (talk • contribs) 21:47, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

References

Should be two articles

There needs to be an article called Harvest Festival (UK) describing traditional Church and school harvest celebrations in the UK, and then this article should have a truly international perspective, and be fairly short. I'm not the person to do this, since I'm not familiar with UK traditions. Mark Foskey (talk) 02:37, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

HoliDAZE

Resolved

Australians and Irish people don't celebrate Thanksgiving or anything remotely close to it. And most countries don't celebrate Thanksgiving (it's just a fact bro). Just google 'we don't celebrate thanksgiving in (put in county name)' and you'll see i think people who live in those countries would know. The 'harvest festival' is not thanksgiving they are as different from Thanksgiving as Halloween is from Easter. It is not their equivelent of Thanksgiving.It is totally different. Stop pretending other countries do every single thing us Americans/Canadians do. 80 percent of Australian adults don't celebrate Halloween. Veteran's Day is not celebrated in Canada (nor is Martin Luther King Day except in Toronto). Most polish people don't celebrate Halloween. NOt everybody alive does the same exact things. DUH countries are differnet from America and that is a fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.84.240.18 (talk) 23:40, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

The article doesn't claim otherwise. - SummerPhD (talk) 12:59, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

My cuts

The following material was removed from the intro as it was rather poorly integrated into the text and duplicated several points. If there is anything here that needs to be covered, please work it into the prose and do not just stick it anywhere on the page. --Khajidha (talk) 15:18, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Customs and traditions section

Much of the customs and traditions section has little indication of where these customs are followed. Looking over the page as a whole, the history of the page, and the talk page, I think that much of it is supposed to be about customs in England. This should really be clarified. Also, the intro needs to be trimmed to be about harvest festivals in general and have the material on specific festivals moved to sections about those festivals. Only the first paragraph of the intro seems to really belong in the intro.--Khajidha (talk) 14:12, 1 October 2018 (UTC)