The Legends Of Valentine's Day
February 14 is Valentine's Day.It is celebrated as a lovers' holiday today,with the giving of candy,flowers,or other gifts between couples in love.Valentine's Day has roots in several different legends that have found their way to us through the ages. In Rome it's said that it originated in 5th Century as a tribute to St.Valentine ,a Catholic bishop. For 800 years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day,the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god Lupercus.The celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box.The girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his female companion during the remaining year.
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Traditional western festival usually has greatful significance in Religion. So many of them are not celebrated nowadays.
As time goes by, many traditional festival disappear from western life
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Easter 复活节
Advent (耶稣)降临节
Rogation Days 祈祷节
Candlemas 圣烛节
Corpus Christi 圣体节
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Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, April Fools' Day, The Legends Of Valentine's Day These festivals become the main festivals in western life.
Christmas
Mother's Day 母亲节
Annunciation 天使报喜节 All Souls'Day 万灵节
Christmas 圣诞节
Father's Day 父亲节 All Saints' Listen, the Day 万圣节 snow flakes
Shrove Tuesday 忏悔节
How many traditional western festival do you know ?
Thanksgiving
In following years, every 1621, bountifulcolonists In the autumn of cultureoriginal Almost many of the in the celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks. crops of corn, barley, beans and world has held celebrations After the United of thanks for a plentiful pumpkins were harvested. The States became an independent country, Congress colonists had muchyearly thankful recommended one American of thanksgiving harvest. The to be day for the whole so a feastcelebrate. George Washington for,Thanksgiving holiday began nation to was planned. They suggestedinvited the localthanksgiving in the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. as a feast of Indian chief.The Then in 1863, at the end ofdaysto roast with civil war, Indians the early deer of and bloody brought a long the Abraham Lincoln asked colonies almost set aside the the turkeys and other wild game American all Americans to last Thursday inby hundred as a day of thanksgiving. offered November years ago. the four the colonists.This is first thanksgiving day.
So the official Christmas season, popularly known as either Christmastide or the Twelve Daysthe evening of of Christmas, extends from the On anniversary of Christ’s birth on December 25 to the feast of Epiphany Christmas Day On the afternoon of on January 6. Christmas Day
Christmas, annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Later Elizabeth in the evening Christ. Most Before Christmas members of the Roman Catholic Church and followers of Protestantism celebrate Christmas on December 25, and many celebrate on the evening of December 24 as well. Members of the Eastern Orthodox Church usually delay their most important seasonal ceremonies until January 6, when they celebrate On baptism of Epiphany, a commemoration of the the morningof Jesus. Epiphany also Christmas Day On Christmas Eve commemorates the arrival of the Three Wise Men of the traditionally East in Bethlehem (near Jerusalem, Israel), where they adored the infant Jesus and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.