If you want to use a food to represent the festival, then Valentine's Day must be chocolate ~
Whether at home or abroad, chocolate has become the first choice gift for Valentine's Day.
But do you know why you want to send chocolates on Valentine's Day?
You can't celebrate Valentine's Day without chocolate. At this time of the year, everyone misses their loved ones a little. Will naturally thought of a box of chocolates. Why do we provide chocolate on Valentine's Day?
Chocolate tastes unique, bitter and sweet, just like the taste of love. Aniline contained in chocolate can cause hormonal changes in the human body, which is very similar to the feeling of lovers in love. Moreover, theobromine contained in cocoa is a healthy anti-sedative ingredient, which can improve the spirit and enhance the excitement. Chocolate has been a "European royal aphrodisiac" for centuries. Yes, the first chocolate is used for aphrodisiac. I didn't expect you to be such a chocolate.
Chocolate contains a substance called phenylethylamine, which is a natural substance in the brain that can bring feelings, mostly related to love. It also contains various other elements that can help create a feeling of happiness.
However, Valentine's Day is actually named after two different Roman saints, both of whom are called Valentine and have nothing to do with love. Although it is said that a priest named Valentine violated the law against marriage in the wartime and insisted on holding a wedding for two young people who loved each other in the church, and then he was executed, there is no evidence that this really happened.
Valentine's Day is actually named after two different Roman saints, both of whom are called Valentine. Surprisingly, they have nothing to do with romantic love. Although legend insists that the original Saint Valentine was a priest who held an illegal wedding for the soldiers of Emperor Claudius. Of course, there is no evidence that this has ever happened.
1382, Valentine's Day was first mentioned as a romantic festival in geoffrey chaucer's works. In the Middle Ages, pure but illegal love became a new focus. Because of this, some familiar scenes began to appear, such as sending roses and singing love songs. But sugar is still a very precious commodity in Europe, so there was no habit of giving candy as a gift at that time.
The first mention of Valentine's Day as a romantic holiday was in Chaucer's book 1382. The Middle Ages brought new attention to illegal and pure court love. Some familiar images began to appear. Knights will give their girls roses and praise their beauty with songs. But candy is still a precious commodity in Europe, so I didn't talk about exchanging such expensive gifts.
By 1840, in the west, Valentine's Day has become a festival dedicated to celebrating love. Conservative Victorians also began to worship the elegant love of knights and prepare greeting cards and gifts for their lovers. Taking advantage of this love craze, British chocolate factory Cadbury began to sell their chocolates vigorously.
By the1840s, Valentine's Day, a festival celebrating romantic love, had occupied most of the English-speaking world. It was Cupid's golden age: reserved Victorian people admired court love and gave each other beautiful cards and gifts. Richard Cadbury, a descendant of an English chocolate-making family, joined the crazy fight for love. He is a pioneer in increasing chocolate sales in the company's history.
Cadbury improved the original chocolate making process and extracted cocoa butter from chocolate beans to produce more delicious chocolate than on the market. However, in this process, there was too much cocoa butter, so a variety of chocolates were produced, which were designed and made into various exquisite gift boxes. The tradition of giving chocolates on Valentine's Day has thus continued.
Cadbury recently improved its chocolate making technology, extracting pure cocoa butter from whole cocoa beans, and producing more delicious drinking chocolate than most British people have ever tasted. This process produced excessive cocoa butter. Cadbury used cocoa butter to produce more kinds of chocolate, which was called "edible chocolate" at that time. Richard realized the great marketing opportunities of this new type of chocolate and began to sell it in beautifully decorated boxes he called Cadbury. So it is a custom to celebrate Valentine's Day with a box of chocolates.
Next Monday is Qixi Valentine's Day. Why not send her a box of French 1855 chocolate gift box, made by French high-end brand Fafna, so that you can understand your love at a glance, and let us linger in the silky chocolate together without too much words.
August 28th is Valentine's Day in China. Have you prepared a gift for your other half? In fact, you can buy a box of chocolates at a French firm. All our chocolates are made of Valrhona chocolate. No one will refuse such a beautiful and delicious gift. Happy tanabata ~