Valentine's Day is the best day in the world to convey love. Expressing love on this day is more likely to succeed than other days. Tomorrow is white valentine's day, so what's the difference between White Valentine's day and Valentine's day? What's the special meaning of this day?
Why is March 14 White Valentine's day
Statement 1
According to legend, the Roman emperor set up white valentine's day to commemorate his February 14 rescue of a pair of lovers who were to be executed for violating the marriage ban. A month later, on March 14, the couple swore that they would never die. At the beginning, March 14 had no name, just like February 14, it was called 'Valentine's Day'. Later, in order to distinguish the two festivals, people designated March 14 as' White Valentine's Day '.
White in the eyes of European countries is pure, pure, spiritual, just like young girls in general, just like Westerners to wear white wedding dress. This has become one of the important sources of the name "White Valentine's Day". Because of the gradual spread and development, "white" represents hope and happiness, is the blessing of lovers.
Statement 2
White Valentine's Day was first born in 1977. It was initiated by wanshengtang Ishimura, a dessert manufacturer in bode District, Fukuoka City, Japan. It advocated that the party who received the favor should give a gift back to the other party. As a means of promoting candy sales, the festival was first called 'candy giving day'. Since 1980, because the granulated sugar used in candy is white, it has been renamed 'White Valentine's Day'.
White Valentine's Day
According to Japanese folklore, February 14 was originally the day when girls expressed their feelings to boys. Girls gave gifts to boys, but it gradually developed to the end. Now it doesn't matter who gave the gifts on their own initiative. In Japan, if one party receives a Valentine's gift from the opposite sex on February 14 to express their affection, and they have the same favor or affection for the other party, they will send back a Valentine's gift on March 14, which means that they have already been intimate with each other, so they set March 14 as' White Valentine's Day '.
In recent years, the wind of "White Valentine's Day" has begun to blow to the mainland of China, which has become another festival for lovers.
The legend of White Valentine's Day
Cupid has always been regarded as a symbol of love. It is said that he is a naughty little god with wings. Once his arrow is shot into the hearts of young men and women, it will make them love each other deeply. In ancient Greek mythology, he was Eros, the youngest son of Venus and Aphrodite. In Roman mythology, his name is Cupid.
It is said that a king and his queen had three beautiful daughters. The youngest was psyche. Because of her beauty, Venus was very jealous of her and ordered Cupid to punish her. However, when Cupid saw psyche, he fell in love with her deeply, made her his wife, and made her live in the temple. But because she was only a mortal, she could not see the face of Cupid, so she was very depressed. Psyche's two sisters were very jealous of her life in the temple, so they deceived her that Cupid was a devil, and encouraged her to watch him secretly at night. She lights the oil lamp at night, and after seeing Cupid, she realizes that he is a handsome boy. Unfortunately, Cupid was awakened and left in anger. The palace and garden disappeared. She finally found herself lying alone in a wilderness.
Psyche looks for Cupid everywhere and comes to the temple of Venus unconsciously. In order to destroy her, the God of love gave her many arduous and dangerous tasks. The last task is to ask her to give an empty box to Proserpine and bring another box back from her.
On the way back, there was a voice guiding her how to get rid of all kinds of death threats, and warning her not to open the box after she retrieved it. Psyche overcame all kinds of obstacles and finally completed the task. But in the end, her curiosity conquered the sound and drove her to open the box to find out. What's the beauty inside? It's the sleeping ghost in hell. It came out of the box and attached to psyche, making her a sleeping corpse.
Cupid finds psyche on the ground, grabs the sleeping ghost from her and puts it back in the box. Cupid forgave her, and Venus forgave her. Moved by her persistent love for Cupid, the gods gave her a bowl of soup of immortality and made her a goddess. Finally, psyche and Cupid have been married ever since.
White Valentine's Day
Hope and happiness. White: protective, spiritual, sacred, peaceful, pure, true, sincere and powerful, clean, pure, romantic, bright, natural and unrestrained, noble, understanding, pure, clear, refreshing, respectful, pure, simple, humble, precise, pure, youth, birth, according to legend, boys give girls gifts (generally roses) on February 14. After a month's consideration and investigation, on March 14, if a girl gives a gift back to a boy (usually chocolate), it means that the girl recognizes the boy and can fall in love. Therefore, March 14 is also known as white valentine's day.
Compared with the enthusiasm of February 14, the story of March 14 shows that it is a sweet day to meet.