Happy Valentine's Day readers!! To celebrate it properly, I will be explaining what Valentine's Day is, its origin, why it is celebrated, and what SHOULD REALLY be celebrated on this day.
Valentine's Day is celebrated annually on February 14th. Where did it come from, you may ask? There are actually several Christian theories that name a religious man called Valentine. A martyr is a person who is killed because of their beliefs. Based on information taken from Britannica,“ According to legend, a priest signed a letter “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended… Another common legend states that St. Valentine defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war. It is for this reason that his feast day is associated with love.”
Some rather believe that Valentine's Day began due to the fact that February 14 was the beginning of the bird's mating season. As you can see, there are many beliefs about Valentines’s Day’s origin.
Valentine’s Day is a holiday in which lovers, friends, family, etc. express their affection through gifts and greetings to one another. However, some argue that Valentine’s Day is just a commercial holiday. In fact, the first commercial valentines in the United States were printed in the mid-1800s.
Here I will give some examples of really romantic activities you could do instead of just buying gifts:
Go stargazing, stargazing is a very fun activity, where you can identify and observe the constellations in the sky.
Bake together. Baking together can create beautiful memories.
Write letters to the ones you love.
Cupid, the Roman god of love, is the main symbol, along with hearts. Cupid is a baby who possesses a bow, of which the arrow shoots falls in love.
The other symbols include candy, flowers, chocolates. In which flowers symbolize beauty. Candy and chocolate can symbolize sweet love. Back to the fact that this is the day that the bird’s mating season begins, birds can also be a symbol of love.
In conclusion, Valentine’s Day is a very interesting holiday. A day to celebrate love in all its forms (of course, depending on your beliefs and concepts of it) Hopefully, this short article will have explained any misconceptions and misunderstandings.
Written by Noris Espinosa
7th Grader
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