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The History About The Romantic Valentine's Day

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Valentine's Day, also known as St. Nowadays, with regard to the so-called Valentine's Day, its roots can be traced back to ancient Greece, at that time; the Greeks were very popular in the cult of Pan.

 Pan is a high-yield god, he was described as a half man and half-goat, uncouth character, making people shake with fear. Pan is supposed to be watching the herd of livestock while playing flute, but, he is so careless, and have affairs with many fairies and goddesses. A sculpture describes that Pan has a close relationship with Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, and the God of Love, Eris, hovers above them, which is just like the Cupid portrayed on the Valentine's card.

Many Romans also worship similar gods called the Faunus. He has also been described as half-man half-goat look. On Faun's Day-February 15 each year, the Romans will take carnival-loving approach to worship Faunus. During the festival, a number of men who wore little would revolve round the hill, waving goat furbish in their hands.

Any women who want to have children stand beside the runway. The Romans believed that, if a sprinting man beat a woman with whip, the woman's infertility will be healing without medicine. In the Catch Phrase and Fable Dictionary, by Brewer, it is said that St. Valentine served as a priest at the temple during helping the martyred Christians. He turned to Christian later, and was beaten to death by sticks on February 14."

Actually celebration custom of Valentine’s Day has something to do with Valentine by pure coincidence. In fact, this festival may concerned with Faun's Day of ancient Rome or mating season of birds. Lovers give gives to each other on Valentine's Day already became a feature of Valentine’s Day. Till today, people prefer to send Valentine's cards with Cupid and a heart arrow on it to convey their affection.

As for the relationship between Valentine's Day and Cupid, the above dictionary states: "Cupid (cupid in Latin, meaning desire, love), the Roman God of Love, is equivalent to the Greek Eros.

He is usually represented by a cute little boy whose back has two wings and his eyes is covered with fabric, a bow and arrow in his hand. "World Book Encyclopedia" provides further information about the origins of Valentine's Day, in fact, opinions are widely divided. It pointed out that, during the AD 200, the emperor of Rome, Claudius II, and outlawed marriage to young men. He believes that unmarried men can become better soldiers. But a priest named Valentine presided a wedding ceremony for a young man secretly in violation of the command.