Valentine’s Day 2021: History, Reason, Facts, Story, Week, How To Celebrate.
Why do we celebrate Valentine’s Day?
Valentine’s Day is a festival of sacrifice with love. Sacrifice with the love of Saint Valentine.
Saint Valentine wanted to express his love to the jailer’s blind daughter before he died.
He gave a letter in which he wrote, “Your Valentines,” from then till date people celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Valentine’s Day celebrates in a different style in different countries:
This festival celebrates on 14 February in different ways in all countries. In China, it celebrates under the name Knight of Sevens. While in Japan and Korea, it is known as a White Day.
In some countries, Valentine’s letters are gifted to their loved ones. In some countries, it celebrates by giving flowers to their love.
In the 19th century, America had abolished the holiday, but now it is accepted. According to U. S. Greeting Card, 1 billion people give Valentine’s cards to each other every year.
The story behind the celebration of Valentine’s Day:
It is the story of an encounter between a cruel king and a compassionate saint. It begins in the third century of Rome, where there was a tyrannical king named Claudius.
The King of Rome believed that a single soldier could be a better and more effective soldier for war than a married soldier because the married soldier always worried about his family after he died. What will happen is that he is unable to concentrate fully in the battle.
Thinking of this, Claudius king announced that no soldiers in his kingdom would marry and that anyone who violated his orders would get punished severely.
All the soldiers were unhappy with this decision of the king and knew that this decision is wrong. No one dared to violate it due to the fear of the king. They all had been helpless to follow the order of that cruel king.
This atrocity was not acceptable to Saint Valentine of Rome. He decided to help those young soldiers who want to marry with their love.
Saint Valentine used to help needed soldiers. This time Saint Valentine helped soldiers to get married secretly with their loved ones.
But the truth could not be able to hide for a long time. For some reason or the other, it comes out in the same way. In the same way, Claudius was aware of this act of Valentines that Valentine did not obey the orders of the king.
So the king gave the order to punish valentine to prison till death. After got punished, Valentine was waiting for the date of his death in prison. One day a jailer came to him named Asterius.
The Romans said that Saint Valentine had a divine power that he can make people free from diseases.
The jailer Asterius had a daughter who was blind, and that jailer also knew that Saint Valentine had has such divine power through which he can free the diseases of the people.
The jailer went to prison to meet Saint Valentine. He begged in front of him and told him that his daughter could not see him. So please, with the help of your divine power, return my daughter’s eyesight.
Saint Valentine was a very good-hearted person, and he also helped everyone so, he did not refuse the jailer. He decided to help him and healed his daughter’s eyes with his divine power.
Since that day, a deep friendship had formed between Valentine and Asterius’ daughter, and that friendship turned into love.
The news of Valentine is going to hang, was found out by the daughter of Asterius. Valentine will not live in this world because he has been sentenced to death and hanged soon.
She was in deep shock about thinking of finally, that ill-fated day has come, 14 February. The day on which Valentine was about to be hanged.
Saint Valentine asked for a pen and paper from that asteroid before being hanged. He wrote the last message on that jailer’s daughter, and Valentine wrote at the end of the page “your Valentine,” this word that the world today also remembers.
Because of this sacrifice of Valentines’, she was named after him on 14 February. On this day, all over the world, all people remember Valentine, and all the lovers share the love.
People express their love by giving flowers, gifts, and chocolates to their loved ones. Since the beginning of February is considered Valentine’s Week.
Week of Valentine:
The celebration begins from 7 to 14 February.
1) 7 February celebrates as Rose Day.
2) 8 February celebrates as Propose Day.
3) 9 February celebrates as Chocolate Day.
4) 10 February celebrates as Teddy Day.
5) 11 February celebrates as Promise Day.
6) 12 February celebrates as Hug Day.
7) 13 February celebrates as Kiss Day.
8) 14 February celebrates as Valentine’s Day.
You must know the four facts about Valentine’s Day:
‣ It is an annual day of expression of love and romance.
‣ This day is celebrated in the memory of Saint Valentin.
‣ However, it is not an official day off.
‣ But due to commercial reasons, its promotion is considerable.
How to celebrate Valentine’s Day:
Everyone has their different way of celebrating Valentines. Loving girlfriend wishes to celebrate this day very beautifully. In such a situation, today I will give you some small tips with the help of that you can make your love day beautiful.
1) Spend a little time alone with your partner, go out with your loved one somewhere.
2) If you want, you can also plan to have dinner outside.
3) Go to a romantic movie or take to a favorite place of your loved ones.
4) If you have time, you can also take your partner on a long drive; this is also a way to make your partner happy.
5) Give them a special gift, which they either like very much or which you think can make them happy easily.
6) The wives especially like to cook food for their husbands.
7) Besides, Valentine’s Day is incomplete without roses. So you can give them a rose.
8) Write them a short letter of love later.
9) Dress for them girls like these things very much.
10) Express your love in front of them. Even if you speak them every day, but on that day it is different.
