The fourteenth day of February is a each year holiday that celebrates love among house members, friends, and romantic partners since at least as early the Middle Ages. This holiday today is often linked with lovers sharing romantic symbols of their devotion such as flowers, chocolates and cards that are regularly known as valentines. Where did Valentine's Day and its traditions come from?
Most habitancy can tell you that Valentine's Day commemorates the Roman Catholic Saint Valentine, but looking back in history there were two or maybe three Saint Valentines of whom minute is known linked with a February date. Some will say that we have Geoffrey Chaucer to thank for first linking romantic love with Valentine's Day in the year 1382. He wrote a poem "For this was Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate" to commemorate the engagement of King Richard the Second of England to his bride. The only complication with this tradition is that February is a bit early for birds in England to be selecting their mates and the actual date of King Richard's engagement was in May. In any case, as the western cultural idea of romantic love grew in the late Middle Ages, so did the increase of Valentine's Day and romantic gift giving linked with the holiday.
Perhaps the oldest and most primary gift to give on the day is sentimental poetry or prose addressed to the object of affection. eventually out of this tradition grew the valentine card as we know it. It was in the 19th century when handwritten cards began to come to be a thing of the past and very construe greeting cards with perfect lace and ribbons became beloved for a time. Typical symbols for the valentine card are the ever beloved heart, romantic white doves and that cute and chubby winged Cupid just ready to attack the hearts of the unsuspecting. Nowadays the greeting cards you see at the store have come to be the way to go, but who could pass up a lovely handwritten love letter from someone they care about?
In the Us, Valentine's Day has come to be strongly a holiday for celebration by children, even though florists and retailers of jewelry and fine chocolates are trying to make a strong case to sell all adults on the idea of celebrating the day with a gift to someone special. Of the nearly 200 million valentine greeting cards purchased in the Us half are intended for child recipients and that shape does not count valentine cards that school children share with each other. Children in the youngest grades often have a class party for Valentine's and give out small store-bought cards to each other that annually tally to a billion. Teachers should have every surmise to love Valentine's Day because not only does it make a break in the winter doldrums between Christmas and Easter, but teachers are the amount one recipients of all valentines when school cards are counted in the statistics.
Even with its amazing popularity among children, Valentine's Day has also come to be a beloved day to get engaged or married. It is the third in every chocolate lover's quadrumvirate of chocolate holidays: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's and Easter. Even with all the change that has occurred in the traditions of this holiday, it is clear that it is a well-loved notice that will not be going away.
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