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 发表:2003/2/12 17:08:08 人气:85       
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情人节的由来（2）
Father Valentine was a kind and wise person who had a lot of friends. They begged the Emperor to free him and sent letters and flowers to jailed Valentine. Many experts think that these were the first letters and flowers sent on Valentine's Day.
Another story says that Valentine was an early Christian in the time when Rome was unfriendly to this upstart religion. For helping some Christian martyrs he was seized, dragged before the prefect of Rome and cast into jail. There he was said to have fallen in love with, and cured the keeper's daughter, Julia, of blindness. When news of this miracle spread, Rome's leaders gave orders that Valentine should be beheaded. The morning of the execution, he is said to have sent Julia a farewell message signed, "From your Valentine."
History tells us the first modern valentines date from the early years of the fifteenth century. The Young French Duc d'Orleans was captured at the battle of Agincourt and kept a prisoner in the Tower of London for a number of years. The duke wrote a series poems to his wife from captivity. About sixty of them remain. hey can be seen among the royal papers in the British Museum.
Flowers as valentines appear nearly two hundred years later. A daughter of Henry IV of France gave a party in honor of St. Valentine. Each lady received a bouquet of flowers from the man chosen as her valentine.
During the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that birds chose their mates each year on February 14. In the 17th century, it's believed that lovers began exchanging mementos on Saint Valentine's Day, perhaps heeding the words of Shakespeare's "Hamlet:"."Sweets to the sweet."
During the medieval days of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into the box and drawn out in pairs. Each couple exchanged gifts. The girl became the man's valentine for that year. On his sleeve he wore her name and it was his bounded duty to attend and protect her. Hence the expression, 慔e wore his heart on his sleeve.?/font>
Cupid, another symbol of the holiday, became associated with it because he was the son of Venus, the Roman god of love and beauty. Cupid often appears on Valentine cards.
Although today's society is very different from what it was during Valentine's days, the tradition is alive. The old-fashioned love still has a place in out very advanced and a bit crazy century. Deep down in our hearts we are still hoping to find the kind of love that Shakespeare wrote about.......
However the custom of Valentine's Day started, it remains an enduring tradition for us in the Western world to this day. So have a happy Valentine's Day!
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爱我就给我，毫无保留！！！
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