Historical Origins of Valentine's Day
Version 1: Valentine's Day is what Valentine's Day is called in English. Literally, it is hard to see any connection between the Chinese and Western names. There is a moving story hidden inside.
It was around the third century A.D. in Rome, when Julius Caesar had been dead for almost 300 years and the tyrant Claudius was in power. At that time, there were many wars inside and outside of Rome, and the people were suffering. In order to replenish the soldiers and carry the war to the end, Claudius ordered that all men within a certain age range must enter the Roman army and serve the country with their lives. Since then, husbands left their wives, and teenagers left their lovers. The whole of Rome was then enveloped in a long period of lovesickness. The tyrant was furious at this. In order to achieve his goal, he went so far as to forbid the people of the country to hold marriage ceremonies, and even asked those who were already married to break their marriage contracts.
However, love cannot be banned by tyranny. In the capital city of the tyrant lived a highly respected monk, Valentine, our hero. He could not bear to see a pair of couples living and dying in this way, so he secretly officiated at God's marriage ceremony for the couples who came to ask for help. In time, this exciting news spread throughout the land, and more couples secretly came to ask for the monk's help.
But the matter soon became known to the tyrant anyway, and once again he showed his brutal face - beating the friar into a large prison and eventually torturing him to death. The day of the friar's death was February 14th, in the year 270 AD.
February 14th gradually became a holiday in honor of the man who dared to fight the tyrant. Many centuries have passed since then, and people no longer remember Claudius' name or his scepter and sword, but they still honor Friar Valentine's Day because it is Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day.
Version 2: In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday set aside to honor Yona. Yona was the queen of the Roman gods, and the Romans honored her as the god of both women and marriage. The next day, February 15, was known as "Lupusala," a festival to honor the other gods under the rule of Jona.
In ancient Rome, the lives of young men and young women were strictly separated. However, on the festival of Lupasara, lads were allowed to choose the name of a girl of their choice to be engraved on a vase. This way, when the festival was over, the lad could dance with the girl of his choice and celebrate the festival. If the chosen girl was also interested in the boy, they would be paired up and eventually they would fall in love and walk into the church together to get married. For this reason, the 14th of February is celebrated as Valentine's Day every year.
Version 3: An English dictionary explains that February 14th, the Feast of Van Valentine's Day, comes from the ancient Roman festival of the Shepherd God. Birds were said to start mating on this day. The custom was that during the festival, each young man drew lots from a box containing strips with the names of young women. Whoever was drawn became the young man's sweetheart. The festival was later changed to honor a Christian saint named Valentine.
St. Valentine, a young Christian missionary in ancient Rome, risked his life to spread Christianity, was arrested and imprisoned, and touched the old jailer and his blind daughter, who took good care of him. Before his execution St. Valentine wrote a letter to the girl, showing his deep love for her. On the day of his execution, the blind girl planted an apricot tree with red flowers in front of his tomb to send her love. That day is February 14th. Nowadays, on Valentine's Day, many young men still make beautiful crafts of courting St. Valentine's postcards, cutting them into butterflies and flowers to show the sincerity of their hearts. Girls place laurel leaves on their pillows at night in the hope of dreaming of their lovers. It is common to express a lover's feelings for each other by giving a red rose on Valentine's Day. A half-opened red rose is given as the perfect gift for a girl on Valentine's Day, while the girl is given a box of heart-shaped chocolates as a gift in return.
It is said that phenylamine, one of the ingredients of chocolate, causes hormonal changes in the body, similar to the feeling of being in hot love.
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Legend has it that in the third century A.D., there was a tyrant in ancient Rome named Claudius. Not far from the tyrant's palace, there was a temple. The monk Valentine lived here. The Romans revered him, and men and women, young and old, rich and poor, would gather around him to hear Valentine's prayers in front of the altar's blazing fire.
The wars of ancient Rome had been raging for a long time, and the tyrant Claudius had conscripted a large number of citizens to go to war, and the people had complained bitterly. As the men did not want to leave their families and the boys could not bear to be separated from their lovers, Claudius was so furious that he ordered his citizens not to perform marriages, and even all those who were already engaged to be married had to break off their engagements immediately. Many young men had no choice but to say goodbye to their lovers and go to the battlefield in grief. And the young girls were depressed and saddened by the loss of their loved ones.
Valentine was so saddened by the tyrant's abusive behavior that when a couple came to the temple to ask for his help, Valentini quietly married them in front of the sacred altar. As word spread, many people came quietly to be partnered with the help of Varundeen.
News finally reached the palace and reached the ears of the tyrant. Once again, Klaudos stormed out, and he ordered his soldiers to storm the temple and drag Valentine away from the couple in the middle of their wedding ceremony and throw him into the dungeon. The people begged in vain for the tyrant's impeachment. Valentine finally died in the dungeon after being tortured to death. Grieving friends buried him in the church of St. Prat. The day was February 14th, and the year was 270 AD.
The other version doesn't seem as exciting as this one. Legend has it that Valentine was one of the earliest Christians, a time when being a Christian meant danger and death. To cover other martyrs, Valentine was captured and thrown into a prison cell. There he healed the blind eyes of the warden's daughter. When the tyrant heard of this miracle, he was so horrified that he had Valentine beheaded.
According to legend, on the morning of his execution, Valentine wrote an affectionate farewell letter to the warden's daughter, addressed to her: From your Valentine
Historians explain Valentine's Day this way: As early as 270 A.D., when the foundations of the city of Rome were being laid, it was still a wilderness surrounded by wolves roaming around in packs. roaming around in packs of wolves. Among the gods worshipped by the Romans, Lupercus, the god of animal husbandry, was in charge of protecting the shepherds and their flocks. Every year in mid-February, the Romans celebrated Lupercus with great ceremony. The calendar was slightly later then than it is now, so the festival was actually a celebration of the coming spring.
Some people say the festival celebrates Faunus, a god who was similar to the ancient Greek god Pan, a goat-footed man with horns on his head, who was in charge of animal husbandry and agriculture. The origins of the festival are so ancient that even scholars of the first century B.C. could not confirm them. But the importance of the festival is undeniable. For example, it is recorded that Mark Antony conferred the crown on Julius Caesar in 44 BC on the occasion of the festival of the Patriarchs.
On February 15, monks gather at a cave on the Palantine Hill in Rome, where the founders of the city (Romilus and Remus) are said to have been raised by a she-wolf. Among the festivities of the festival was the running of the young nobles through the streets, carrying sheepskin whips. Young women would gather on the sides of the streets and pray for the whip to strike them on the head. It was believed that this would make it easier for them to have children. In Latin, the whip was called februa and the lash was called fabruatio, both of which actually mean 'purity'. This is how February got its name.
As Roman power spread across Europe, the custom of the festival of the shepherds was brought to what is now France and Britain. One of the most popular events of the festival was a lottery. The names of young women were placed in a box and young men came forward to draw them. The winning pair became lovers for a year or more.
The rise of Christianity caused the custom of honoring the gods to fade. Not wanting people to give up the joys of the festival, the clergy changed Lupercalia to Valentine's Day and moved it to February 14th. In this way, the legend of the Valentine friars and the ancient festival were naturally combined. The festival was most popular in medieval England.
After the names of unmarried men and women were drawn, they exchanged gifts, and the woman became the man's Valentine for the year. The woman's name was embroidered on the man's sleeve, and it became the man's sacred duty to take care of and protect her.
The modern Valentine lover is dated to the early fifteenth century. The young French Archduke of Orléans was captured by the British at the Battle of Agincourt and then imprisoned in the Tower of London for many years. He wrote many love poems to his wife, about 60 of which have survived to this day. The use of flowers as tokens of Vallendar appeared about two hundred years later. One of the daughters of King Henry IV of France had a big party at Vallée de Genève. All the ladies received a bouquet of flowers from the man who chose her to be Valentine.
In this way, continuing old Italian, French and English customs, we are able to send messages of love to our friends every year on February 14th. Flowers, heart-shaped candies, tokens with lace and tassels covering the name of the sender, not only represent a sincere love, but also the best way to honor the memory of Friar Valentine, who dared to fight against tyranny.