According to legend, the tyrant at that time forced young men to join the army, and men used marriage as an excuse to avoid military service. In a rage, the tyrant banned marriage, even love, and forced young men to join the army.
Valentai expressed deep sympathy for this and risked his life to secretly preside over the wedding for his lover. Later, the story leaked out and Valenti was arrested and executed. In order to commemorate Valenti's heroic behavior, the world regarded him as the patron saint of lovers, and designated his martyrdom day-February 14 as "Valentinus Day". After years of circulation, it has become today's Valentine's Day.
The Origin of Valentine's Day-Legend 2
There is also a legend that Valentine's Day evolved from the faun festival in ancient Rome.
This festival is dedicated to Juno, the protector of shepherds and villagers.
A note with a sexual name, as a lover, and this woman's name is Valenta. This custom has been circulating in Europe, and the ceremony of this festival has been preserved until the twentieth century.
The Origin of Valentine's Day-Legend 3
Another theory about the origin of Valentine's Day has something to do with nature.
Legend has it that in Britain, all birds used to mate in February 14, such as blackbirds and partridges, and they all courted in February. Therefore, human beings also think that February of 14 is a good day for all things to spring, which represents the beginning of youthful life, and also follows the example of bird mate selection in February of 14.
Some people say that it originated in the 3rd century. At that time, Christianity was brutally suppressed and persecuted by the imperial government because it held a negative attitude towards the rule of the Roman Empire and refused to admit its worship of the Roman emperor. A Christian named Valentine was arrested for publicly condemning Rome's repression of Christianity and calling on believers to rise up and resist. In prison, he suffered inhuman torture, but he still stuck to his beliefs. The warden's daughter, a beautiful and gentle girl, was impressed by his awe-inspiring righteousness and fell in love with him. Since then, the two have often been kept in the dark. In the damp dungeon, Valentine spent a special time in love with each other, pouring out their feelings and vowing to love each other forever.
However, in that dark age, all's well that ends well. Because Valentine would rather die than surrender, the Roman government sentenced him to death. Before his execution, he wrote a long letter to his lover, expressing his eternal love for her and the difficulty of not giving up his faith for love, and then went to the execution ground and died in awe. This day happened to be February 270 AD 14.
After Ding Lun's death, the girl was heartbroken and fell on her lover's body, crying, and everyone watching was sad and crying. In order to commemorate this unforgettable day and express the best wishes of all lovers in the world, Christians and young men and women designated February 14 as Valentine's Day, also known as "Love Election Day". Because Valentine is regarded as a "saint" by Christianity, it is also called "Saint Valentine's Day".
It is said that there is also a Christian saint named Valentine. During the Roman Empire, Christianity was considered illegal and could not be practiced openly. Despite the ban, this Valentine secretly married a lover who believed in Jesus Christ in the church. After the incident, he was arrested and died in prison. Believers say that he became the "patron saint" of love after his death, so they set up Valentine's Day to commemorate him.
However, more people believe that Valentine's Day has nothing to do with these two Christian saints named Valentine, but comes directly from the faun festival in ancient Rome.
In Roman mythology, Funus is the god of forest, and Yuan is also the protector of cattle and sheep. He can help shepherds wash away their sins, bless high yield and protect cattle from wolves. But he is also a dissolute god. At ordinary times, he lives freely in forests and Yuan Ye, and uses magic to lure every woman he meets to have sex with him, even with all animals he meets. Speaking of it, it's really funny to associate Valentine's Day with this primitive and vulgar sexual worship.
According to legend, the faun festival in memory of Funus was initiated by Romulus, a famous ancestor of Rome, who founded the city of Rome. On February 14 of his reign, he held the first sacrificial ceremony for Funus in a cave in the Palatini Mountain, the holy place of Roman gods (later called "the cave of faun"), praying for him to bless the Roman people. This is the first faun festival.
The sacrificial ceremony of faun festival is full of ancient religions and myths. On this day, people offer dogs and goats to Funus, because the legendary shepherd gave birth to the sheep's feet, and dogs mean taking care of the sheep. After the sacrifice, the people who attended the sacrifice were naked, holding whips made of sheepskin for sacrifice, and running around Palatine Hill, whipping every woman they met. Women are not only willing to be beaten, but also scrambling to squeeze under the whip. They think this is a communication with the animal husbandry god, and it will help to have more children after being beaten. In the early days of ancient Rome, the population was sparse, so it was an important policy to encourage population proliferation. This kind of flogging was a unique religious ceremony popular at that time, which combined the proliferation of magic with repentance. This is combined with the ancient concept that the ultimate goal of love and marriage is to have more children, which is related to love. In fact, no matter how incomprehensible the rituals and concepts of faun festival are to people today, they all express a kind of love and marriage. Prayers for a better life have been passed down from generation to generation. Later, people added a new game in the constant innovation of the festival ceremony, that is, setting up a sign box filled with signs with girls' names. A young man can choose any one and draw who is his lover. Animal Festival gradually evolved into Valentine's Day. Until16th century, Valentine's Day still had traces of "bumping into heaven to get married", but lottery tickets were no longer used. But in February of 14, a young man took the first opposite sex he saw as a lover. In Shakespeare's immortal play Hamlet, the heroine Ophelia fell in love with the handsome young Hamlet and wanted to be the first to appear at the lover's window. Expressing her heart, she said, "Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Everyone should get up early, look at me, come to your window and be your lover. "
As for today's Valentine's Day, the religious color and mysterious animal sacrifice have long disappeared, and it has become a veritable "love election day", an international festival for couples to talk to each other, and a warm, sweet and human day. On this day, universities and clubs will organize special couples dances. Shops are filled with all kinds of heart-shaped decorations, such as chocolate candy boxes decorated with hearts, tulip bouquets, all kinds of fabrics embroidered with heart-shaped patterns, fancy Valentine's Day cards, and even TV and movies are all love stories. All walks of life, all walks of life are trying to make couples have a happy and loving holiday.
Valentine's Day in China is always associated with the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four folk love legends in China.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a clever and honest young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang. His parents died early, so he had to live with his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law, Ma Shi, is vicious, often abusing him and forcing him to do a lot of work. One autumn, his sister-in-law forced him to herd cattle and gave him nine cows, but he was told to wait until he had ten cows, so the cowherd had no choice but to drive them out of the village.
The cowherd drove the cow to the mountains alone. On the mountain with deep grass and dense forest, he sat under the tree and was sad. He doesn't know when he can drive ten cows home. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. When he learned what had happened to him, he smiled and said to him, "Don't be sad. There is a sick old cow in Funiu Mountain. You go and feed it well When the old cow is ready, just wait. "
The cowherd walked a long way over the mountains and finally found the sick old cow. Seeing that the old cow was very ill, he went to bundle the grass for the old cow. After feeding for three days in a row, the old cow looked up and told him that he was a great fairy in the sky, but he was sent to heaven because he broke his leg and could not move. His injury needs to be washed with toilet water for a month. Cowherd carefully took care of old Niu Yi for a month, picking flowers for the old cow during the day and sleeping beside the old man at night. After the old cow recovered, the cowherd happily drove ten cows home.
After returning home, my sister-in-law is still not good to him. She hurt him several times and was saved by the old cow. Finally, my sister-in-law got angry and drove the cowherd out of the house. The cowherd only wanted the old cow to accompany him.
One day, the weaver girl in the sky played games with the fairies and took a bath in the river. With the help of the old cow, the cowherd got to know the Weaver Girl, and they hit it off. Later, the Weaver Girl sneaked into the world and became the wife of the Cowherd. The weaver girl also distributed wild silkworms brought from the sky to everyone, teaching them to raise silkworms, spin silk and weave bright silks and satins.
After the marriage of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, a man plowed and a woman weaved, giving birth to two children, a man and a woman, and the family lived happily. But the good times didn't last long, and it was soon known to the Emperor of Heaven that the heavenly queen herself came down to earth and forcibly brought the Weaver Girl back to heaven, and the loving couple separated from each other.
There is no way for Cowherd to go to heaven, or the old cow told him that he could wear shoes with his own skin after he died. Cowherd did as the old cow said, put on shoes made of cowhide and took his children with him. On the verge of catching up, I'm afraid the queen mother pulled out the golden hairpin on her head, and a choppy Tianhe appeared. Cowherd and Weaver Girl are separated on both sides, and they can only cry each other. Their loyal love touched the magpies, and thousands of magpies flew to build a magpie bridge, where the cowherd and the weaver girl met. The Queen Mother has no choice but to allow them to meet on July 7th every year.
Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the stars and look for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, and pray to God that they will be as ingenious as the Weaver Girl and that they will have a happy marriage, thus forming China's Valentine's Day.