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 Ruby 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 of the origin of Valentine's Day is related to 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 Valentine's death, the girl was heartbroken and fell on her lover's body, crying, and all the people watching were 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 the 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 is a good time for infatuated men and women who are worried and ashamed to talk about it. On the night before Valentine's Day, girls picked leaves from laurel trees and stuck them on pillows, hoping to meet the right lover in their dreams. In Greek mythology, Apollo, the sun god, wove laurels from the branches and leaves of his beloved girl Daphne and put them on his head. Apollo was the most handsome of the Greek gods. Perhaps, the girls hope that the "Prince Charming" in their minds can be the same as him! At the same time, the boys cut Valentine's Valentine's Day cards into various exquisite handicrafts, such as heart-shaped and flower-shaped, which are more the image of eros, the god of love in Greek mythology. According to the myth, every time eros shoots, whoever shoots falls in love. It is precisely because he shot an arrow to incite lust at Apollo and an arrow to destroy love at Daphne that he caused the famous love tragedy in Greek mythology. Boys certainly hope Cupid can accurately shoot his arrow of love on the laurel leaf on the girl's pillow, and from then on, they are soul mates and become lovers when they spend the full moon together. Perhaps it is because Valentine's Day is so romantic and full of poetry, its celebration content is constantly being renovated, and there are more and more stories. For example, in Colorado, there is a small town called Loveland, which translates into Chinese as "the lover's residence". The post office in the town is unique, specially designed with the image of eros, the god of love, or printed with short love poems. Postmark of famous aphorisms. Therefore, in order to stamp the town's postmark, during Valentine's Day, "lovers" in the United States and all over the world try their best to send letters or Valentine's Day cards here, stamp them and then forward them to their lovers. This is very difficult for employees, who deal with a lot of mail and letters every February. Later, people nicknamed the town: Love Headquarters. In fact, as an international festival, the scope of Valentine's Day is still expanding. Young men and women in many eastern countries also began to celebrate festivals on this day. As the saying goes, "May the ends of the earth love each other forever", and people also wish this "love election day" to be more warm and romantic. More poetic