Valentine's day ๐Ÿ’˜๐Ÿ’Œ

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Valentine's day

Hi friends, I hope you're fine?

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Today is my birthday, 36 years old ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ !!! And Wednesday is Valentine's Day, it's lovers' day.

Personally, I'm not a fan of this festival because I find it a little comical to see all those lovers huddled together in restaurants that night holding hands and looking in the whites of their eyes. I'm a little rebellious and when it comes to doing like everyone else at the same time, it cuts me all desire. A little like for Christmas Eve on 31/12/2018, just knowing that everyone is obliged to party at the same time that day, I would like to celebrate another day ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Let's go back to Valentine's Day, it's lovers' day. Couples take the opportunity to exchange sweet words and gifts as proof of love as well as red roses that are the emblem of passion.

History

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The origin of this festival is attested in the 14th century in Britain, still Catholic, where Valentine's Day on February 14th was celebrated as a lovers' holiday because it was thought that the birds chose this day to mate.

This holiday then spread across the continent.
Valentin de Terni, celebrated on February 14th, is designated by the Catholic Church as patron saint of lovers with Pope Alexander VI who gives him the title of "patron of lovers" in 1496.

The documents are quite numerous until the mid-nineteenth century to see the extension of the custom in the European aristocracy and its dissemination in the popular milieu in the eighteenth century.

Valentine's Day as a commercial festival developed in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, with the sale of cards reminiscent of small notes that were exchanged Valentine's and Valentine.

Valentine's Day has become a secular festival in the twentieth century.

It is a commercial party for some and an opportunity to celebrate love for others.

The holiday is now associated with the mutual exchange of sweet words or gifts illustrated with symbols such as a winged heart or cupid.

Valentines

At least three different saints named Valentin, all three martyrs, are celebrated on February 14th. Their feast was fixed on this date by decree of Pope Gelase I, in 495. They are mentioned since in the first martyrologies :

โ€ข Valentin of Rome, a priest who suffered martyrdom in Rome in the second half of the third century and who was buried on Via Flaminia.

โ€ข Valentin de Terni, a bishop of Terni who also suffered martyrdom in the second half of the third century and who was also buried on Via Flaminia.

โ€ข Valentine of Rhetia, monk wrestling and preacher of the fifth century.

According to the Roman Martyrology of 1705, the first two Valentin (dead at the same time and buried in the same place), would in fact be the same person, presented under its two successive functions. His cult has spread along the Via Flaminia, from Terni to Rome and to Bavaria which receives his relics, which explains that we venerate under the name of Valentine's Day three different characters who do not reality only one.

Origin

The first mention of Valentine's Day with a romantic connotation goes back to the 14th century in England, where it was believed that February 14th was the day when birds mated. It was common during this period that lovers exchange tickets and call each other their valentine. It is likely that several legends about Valentine's Day were invented during this period.

These legends include :

โ€ข The day before the martyrdom of St. Valentine, he slipped a "valentine" to the girl of the jailer who read "on behalf of your Valentine".

โ€ข During a period when Roman Emperors were not allowed to marry by Emperor Claudius II, St. Valentine secretly arranged marriages. In most versions of this legend, February 14 is the date of his martyrdom.

It was Otto de Grandson, during the second half of the 14th century, poet and Vaudois captain at the English court, who made this custom known in the Latin world through his poems dedicated to this tradition.

Valentine's Day in the world

In France, florists make the day of Valentine's Day the turnover they would usually make in a week. Rose represents 80% of sales.

In China, there already existed a medieval festival dedicated to lovers, the Qixi, "Chinese Valentine's Day" held on the seventh day of the seventh moon. Since the 1980s, Valentine's Day on February 14 has enjoyed significant popularity, especially among young people, which generates various commercial activities.

In Japan, Valentine's Day was introduced by chocolate makers in the late 1950s. It is a commercial party where women offer chocolates to men.
They offer it to the loved one but also as a courtesy to their male work colleagues, their boss, or their family. Then, the men who received chocolates can offer a gift to women in return for the white day celebrated on March 14th. As a present, women receive white chocolate, jewelry or white lingerie. The absence of a gift in return must be considered as a sign of a one-sided love. This concept launched in Japan extended to South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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In Taiwan, men offer heavy bouquets of meaning: a unique red rose for "my only love", 99 roses for "eternal love" and 108 roses for a marriage proposal.

In Algeria, Valentine's Day, celebrated on February 14th, is more popular among young people. Couples offer themselves that day roses and chocolate and more rarely other gifts. In schools, we also speak of students who offer roses to their mistresses.

In Lebanon, on this day, lovers are offered chocolates, cakes, roses and other gifts symbolizing love. High schools and colleges organize, for Valentine's Day, the Red Day, where students come dressed in red without wearing the school uniform and where there is sale of cakes, chocolate, and exchanges of hugs and gifts.

In Tunisia, Valentine's Day is very popular; couples are taking advantage of this day to give themselves gifts and organize romantic outings or one-on-one meals.

In Germany, they offer themselves little pigs adorned with Cupid's wings, which symbolize desire and luck, but also big heart-shaped cookies carrying messages like "Kiss me".

In Italy, they hang locks on bridges, screens and poles and throw the key to declare their love.

In Denmark, they send each other "lover's cards" enhanced with rhymes or a funny little message, by signing by points, at the rate of one point per letter of the name of the anonymous sender. And when a woman manages to guess who her secret admirer is, she gets an Easter egg.

In Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico, people are doing something to show their appreciation, rather than giving gifts.

In Argentina, during the Sweet Week, in July, people offer sweets in exchange for a kiss.

In Malaysia, single women write their phone number on an orange that they throw into the river. The fruit vendors fish them and resell them.

In South Africa, women wear their hearts on their sleeve, pinning the name of their secret love. This age-old tradition originated with Roman soldiers.

In Catalonia, there is the Sant Jordi on April 23, when men offer a rose to women and women a book to men.

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I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day and wish singles to find their half in 2018.

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Joyeux Anniversaire @lndesta120282!!!
Je te souhaite le meilleur dans ta vie et une belle rรฉussite sur steemit!

Ps: La Sant Jordi est une fรชte super chouette, je l'attends avec impatience ;)

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday :)

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

I hope you have a wonderful day and that the year ahead is filled with much love, many wonderful surprises and gives you lasting memories that you will cherish in all the days ahead.
Happy Birthday.
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HAVe a nice day

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Thank you ๐Ÿค—

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday & happy Valentine's day my friend. ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ†

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In Nigeria, we mostly take each other out to visit places: beaches, eateries, gardens, waterfalls, amusement parks... etc...

Some churches holds programs to educate and teach about true love, although the underlying motive is to shield the girls from ravenous guys that got plans for them for the day, i believe.

Then, while at College, they do say, although i have no reason to fully agree because of little or no proof, that most children born between November and December later in the year came as a result of valentine sex.

I love valentine. It reminds of the day I proposed to my fiancee. Last valentine was our first outing together!

Happy val to her, and to you all!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Cool day !

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Great post dear,,,, Yeah,, I am wishing you also Happy Valentine's Days to you. Hope you will enjoy your time with family and friends.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Advance Happy Valentines Day! God bless everyone...

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

@indesta120282 I love your idea about the Valentine, it's a time of love and yuletide. Thanks for reminding us about the reason for the season

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย (edited)

happy birthday and happy welenstine's day my friend. Wow..such a wonderful and interesting flowers by @lndesta120282

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

many happy returns of the day

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Hi @Indesta120282 ๐Ÿ™‹ Happy birthday to nice happy birthday๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽ‚ Let everything be as you wish...chocolate and flowers are very nice..not one day, every day treat your loved ones specially โ˜บ

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

In Korea, the people who did't receive chocolates meet and have black noodle(Jjajangmyeon) together to console each others for the black day celebrated on April 14th.
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Yes. It's true. I'm serious!!
Happy birthday~!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย (edited)

Colours may fade, the sun may not shine,
the moon may not be bright, heart-beats may stop,
lives may pass but our friendship,
I will treasure 'till the day my heart st
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many happy returns of the day
Stay happy with your valentine. Good luck and God bless you.

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday sir..you remind me that wednesday is valentine day .it's a love day .
I have a lover and i thought that in valentine day i will give her a beautiful rose.really in valentine day i wanna propose her and i wanna express my love .from now i am feeling very nervous .what will happen in that ?would she except my love or reject my love . I can't reject my love . I am praying for my love .
Thanks for sharing this love post.
Have a nice day .

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy valentine day
I wish you all the best

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Nice work..

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Birthday to you and happy val too, also thank you for this history sometimes a lot of us celebrate what we don't even know how it came about, we only celebrate because it's a Norm and we see there do it from to time so we just follow without asking questions.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy valentine day @Indesta120280 . Stay happy with your valentine. Good luck and God bless you.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

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just for you, my dear

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Bullet for the Valentine

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday and a good composition on the concept of valentine

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday and good post about valentine.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Birthday..dear...

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Valentine day is a great day in our life ...
I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day ....

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Today is my birthday, 36 years old

Happy birthday dear! Wish you a many happy returns of the day. May you have success waiting ahead.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

very good writing,

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

I have deeper and more versed history about valentine. But thanks to you @indesta120282 for this piece. It's illuminating.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

happy birthday and being rebellious is definitely fun

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Yes I thing so ๐Ÿ™ƒ

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Valentine's Day and wishes to my wife

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

beautiful

Valuable information,thanks.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday..mine was on the 10th of February

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday too ๐ŸŽ‰๐ŸŽ

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy valentine day @Indesta120280

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

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Happy valentine day ...

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

What a great article this is.I particularly like the way you mentioned how Valentine's day is celebrated in major nations and cities of the world.There is also the history part,making me know where Valentine originated from and the different shades to the story.

For me,I do not celebrate Valentine because it looks pretensious.Why would you just single out a day for giving and showing love? Love should be a daily and continuous affair to everybody and not just romantic love between a man and woman.

Valentine's day connotes romance and sex for our young ones and they use this day as liberty to practice and form of sexual actions that is appaling. Even though there are people who rekindle their love on this day but why wait till Valentine's day to rekindle a dying love?
#upvoteforupvote

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

it's beautiful today. but he's still fine. of human nature he wants to live a wonderful childhood2018-02-12-11-04-29-299.jpg

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย (edited)

I wish you a lifetime of love
Happiness that never ends
Songs of laughter
Warmth of family and friends
I wish you days that are bright
and filled with dreams
A world of faith and hope
And joy thatโ€™s everlasting
I wish you constant peace
and good days ahead
you deserve this and more
My dear sweet friend...
happy valentines day :) happy birthday and stay blessed
happy valentines day :) happy birthday and stay blessed

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Birthday @lndesta120282. Always success for you. Greetings me from Aceh, Indonesia.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

happy velentine's day advanced

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

I congratulate you on such a good day - your birthday!
I wish you good health and long life!
The main thing is that you always surrounded by loving people :)
Here on steemit you have achieved certain successes therefore I wish that would become even more popular. We are your virtual family :)

St. Valentine's Day in my country is also a holiday.
But this holiday is more creative, because there is no definite algorithm to do. Lovers themselves think out how they will spend their leisure time.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Many more happy returns of the day:) and a good post.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Birthday @lndesta120282 I hope you enjoy your day!
happy Valentine's Day as well..

Love,
@micch

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

2 valentines ๐Ÿ˜Š

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย (edited)

Valentine mode activated

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

same here, I don't like to celebrate Valentine's day either. Makes the singles feel awkward, and why should we all buy roses that are twice the price as usual? Thanks for the information!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Birthday!! have a great day with many gitfs #love

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

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ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

There is no patience in love. There is anxiety, there is helplessness, there is chaos and also an indispensable need to find peace amidst all of it.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

I always dread Valentines day i'm from England and we're not very romantic. My Thai girlfriend expected the world but after 4 years together she now understands it's not my cup of tea, i did however take her for a romantic meal 3 years ago at a rooftop fancy restaurant overlooking the mountain. The fruit platter was rather expensive lol.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

๐Ÿ˜

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Ex-lovers are like calender dates - never try to get them back in your life because it's completely futile

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Nice updete

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย (edited)

Happy Valentine Day

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

A wonderful happy birthday. Thanks for all the history of valentine's day, am still wondering if we celebrate St. Valentines or ourselves nowadays.

Happy birthday

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Nice

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

happy birthday and may God bless you always

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy belated birthday and Happy Valentine's Day for today (even though you are not a fan of today)!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy birthday! Many more good returns for your on this special day. Just dropping by random posts to greet everyone a good day. Enjoy your day!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Happy Birthday!
It is forbidden for my husband to buy me flowers on this day :)I also think that It's really obliged flowers. Nevertheless it's a lovely day ! And for you it's speacial! Wish you love and happiness!

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

Good job, you know when it comes to love we humans are always carried away but fail to realize the true meaning of love. I hate the aspect of it where lovers, couple only go out, buy gifts and seem romantic only on this day, love is a thing of air and is supposed to be celebrated every day of our life's. I can't drop my pen without Wishing you a happy birthday, may the Lord bless your new age.

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

How many we did not talk life about emptiness, sometimes only enough one flower, to dissuade us.Your post pleased me.Successes to you and successes

ย  ยท ย 7 years agoย 

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