February 14 is "Valentine's Day".
Valentine's Day is also called St. Valentine's Day or St. Valentine's Day. Now
it is celebrated by people as a couple's holiday, this is a holiday about love,
romance and flowers, chocolate, greeting cards. Love each other to give candy,
flowers or other gifts. Has become Europe and the United States young people
favorite festivals, other countries have begun to pop. On the "Valentine's
Day" origin, there are many different legends experienced a long time, has
been circulating so far.
Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's
Day, is Europe and the United States and Oceania, a number of national
festivals. The source of this holiday is very much, but generally the Holy
Spirit of the Roman Catholics was executed, after being designated as
"Valentine's Day" is more common.
ONE: In the third century AD, the emperor
of the Roman Empire, Claudius II, proclaimed the abandonment of all marriages
in the capital, when it was out of war, so that more men without care could go
to the battlefield. A priest named Sanctus Valentinus did not follow this will
and continued to hold a church wedding for young people in love. After the
incident was sent, Valentine priest was first whipped, and then beaten by the
stone, and finally in the year on February 14, 270, was sent to the gallows
were hanged. After the 14th century, people began to commemorate this day. Now,
the Chinese translation of "Valentine's Day" in this day, in the
Western countries known as Valentine's Day, to commemorate the priest who
sacrificed for the lover.
TWO: It is said that Valentine was one of
the earliest Christians who made a Christian mean danger and death. In order to
cover other martyrs, Waban was caught and put into prison. Where he cured the
warden's daughter's blind eyes. When the tyrant heard this miracle, he was very
afraid, so the bearded beheaded public. According to legend, in the day of
execution, Wadu Ding wrote a love farewell letter to the warden's daughter,
inscribed by: From your Valentine. On the same day, the blind woman in his tomb
to plant a flower of the red flowers, to sustenance of their own emotions, this
day is February 14. Since then, Christian put February 14 as Valentine's Day.
THREE: In the ancient Roman period,
February 14 was a holiday for respect for Jonah. Jonah is the queen of the
Roman gods, and the Romans also respects her as a god of women and marriage.
The next February 15 is known as the "Lupa Sala Festival", is used to
the rest of the gods of Jonah expressed respect for the festival. In ancient
Rome, the lives of young people and girls are strictly separated. However, at
the Lupa Sala Festival, the boys could choose the name of a beloved girl on the
vase. In this way, when the holidays, the young man can dance with their choice
of girls to celebrate the festival. If the selected girl is also interested in
the young man, they can always match, and eventually they will fall in love and
go into church together. Descendants for this will be the year on February 14
as Valentine's Day.
Different times, the custom of Valentine's
Day is different. Which from 1837 to 1901 British Queen Victoria Valentine's
Day custom is the most unique: February 14 this day, the lover, will have two
flowers born with buds buds transplanted in a special pot. The first letter of
the name must match the first letter of the name of the lover. A few days
later, if the spring buds on the double buds in full bloom, each other, it
indicates that the pair of love white first old; if the two buds sub-East,
contrary spit Rui, the lover will eventually Luoyan fly; if the flowers open
huge, Bright, that after the children and grandchildren, family fun; if a
flower withered, one of the lovers have early risk.
In Buckinghamshire also popular in the
Valentine's Day prayer of the wind habit: lit a candle, insert two fine needle,
from the candle at the end of the candle into the heart, meditation of their
lover's name, praying love always, until the candle burning To the tip, it is
said that the loved one will be in time to knock around. There is also a
Valentine's Day custom: in Valentine's Day before the week, for 7 nights, the
left foot socks off to wear on the right foot, repeated wish: "I wish my
wife can enter this night dream." It is said, At this time the old will
leave a lucky red silk thread. As well as the socks off the neck wrapped in
love.
After the Victorian era, Valentine's Day
custom gradually faded, the twentieth century, thirty or forty years, with the
prevalence of greeting cards, Valentine's Day re-heat rekindle. In some
countries, Valentine's Day has evolved into a trend of women's expression of
friendship to men, so on March 14 and become "the plot", that is, the
man gift to the woman to show "still love".
United States: the male on this day to his
female friend said "Valentine's Day happy" has no special emotional
relationship, and gradually evolved into a public like a greeting form. But men
are less open to another man in public. "
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