Thursday, October 21, 2010

Valentine's Day celebrations around the world

No matter where in the world is love. Some celebrations are low-key, while others are full of tricks. Let's look at some of these festivals.

NORTH AMERICA:

In Canada and the United States, school-age children delight in exchanging Valentine cards with their friends. There are classroom parties with Valentine sweets and exchanges of cards. Students in general I like bags or boxes in which to deposit their cards. They also take greatJoy in creating homemade (school-made) Valentines from red (pink, white) construction paper, other cards fancy paper doilies (often in the form of a heart), etc., so much fun the students when preparing what they receive their cards in!
Young people can dance or party, while those from adults, are the flowers, candy or other gifts for your spouse or partner. Valentine's Day candy is usually packed in boxes decorated with sometimes heart-shapedPeaks and so on.

Mexicans celebrate Valentine's Day, but the day goes by another name, "Dia de San Valentin" or "Dia del Amor y la armistad" is a day of love and friendship.

EUROPE:

The people of Austria and Germany, along with the tradition of American Women Award presented her with roses or chocolates.

In Denmark, 's Valentine's Day is celebrated with enthusiasm. The first Valentine's Day were transparent and when held against the light, a Image of a man passing a woman a gift would be projected. Another popular gift is pressed to give white flowers snowdrops, as is well known (source identified as candy snowdrops). A joke "gaekkebrev" or letters from men, did not sign a romantic verse, though. Instead, the person signs his name with a number of points that correlate with the number of letters in his name. If the object of his affection guess his identity, he received an Easter egg.

In England,Valentine's Day is celebrated in different ways. The St. Valentine's Eve, the costumes of the women rather odd practices. They consume their pillows and pin a bay leaf on each of the four corners and where the eggs were removed egg yolk replaced with salt! (My mouth twists at the thought.) After that you were convinced that they would dream of her future husband. In another tradition that the names of their female lovers to write on paper. These documents were placed on sandBalls that had fallen into the water. What kind of paper surfaced first would bear the name of her future husband.

In the present, some unmarried women rise out of bed before sunrise on Valentine's Day. Waits at the window, looking past the man. You hear the first man they see, or someone with a resemblance to him, is in her husband.

Children in England sing the songs of Valentine's Day special and get candy, fruit or money.In some regions of England, Valentine's special people bake bread decorated with raisins, caraway seeds, plums, o.

E 'in Italy traditionally engaged on Valentine's Day. Gift baskets are popular China and cups, s' cakes that were filled with Valentine's Day. Italian women practice the same fortune-telling tradition, especially for her future husband, the fact as in England.

Scotland 's Valentine's Day is traditionally celebrated with a feastwhere they meet the men and women not married. Everyone writes their name (or fake) on a piece of paper is then folded and put into a hat, a separate one for women and for men.

women's draw is the first and the process repeated by men. While the two do not match names taken, we would pair with the lady who had pulled his name. The man presented a gift to the lady on the paper. Women pin the names of their partners on theirSleeveless or his heart. And 'This is the origin of wearing your heart on your tongue?

In Spain, women give gifts to their husbands, men give flowers to their wives.

ASIA:

In China's Valentine's Day is usually celebrated in the 14 in February. Rather, according to the Chinese calendar. It is celebrated on the seventh day of the 7th Lunar month. We pray on this day, the temple of the amount of love matchmaker for love and happiness. Singles can also pray. A traditionalPractice involves girls put a needle on the water surface when the star Vega is high in the sky. It 's time then to look for the girl to a man. Also, this day is dedicated to the girls do any desire at all.

Modern China is a new spin on this holiday, when couples with special discounts for hotels in San Valentino. Not only are the rooms at discounted prices, but that day, the hotel does not ask to be examined and marriage certificates. But any other day of the yearChinese law requires marriage certificates to couples hotels in Check

In Israel 's Day Time is a popular marriage proposals are made for Valentine's Day. Gifts are also exchanged.

Playing in Japan, chocolate is an important part. Women give a box of chocolates ("Giri-choko") as a sign of friendship or gratitude for his boss, colleagues and friends are female. Giri-choko chocolate "translated" mandatory. "

A further step forward, a woman can express theirThe special love for the man in her life with small gifts and a box of chocolates "Honmei-choko" or known as "chocolate potential."

In one month, the men who have the gift of chocolate, the woman presented with a box of chocolates White Day, March 14. These chocolates are usually either white chocolate or candy in the white box packed. Japanese men often give gifts of lingerie or jewelry of their particular women.

In s Day 'Korea Valentine's Dayas celebrated in Japan. However celebrate men who were not recipients of chocolate along the Black Day of April 14 or what you eat spaghetti Jajangmyun called blacks ".

Thousands of couples celebrate Valentine's Day by gathering in the Philippines to the world record for most couples kissing simultaneously. This festival is Lovapalooza. This is a lot of chapped lips!

Taiwan observed Valentine's Day celebrated two, one on14. February and the other on July 7. These days it is customary exchange of roses, the color and the number of roses to determine the message. Rise to "just love," eleven roses means "preferred", "Forever" is the message that comes with ninety-nine roses and a hundred and eight roses means "I want to marry."

Thailand 's Valentine's Day is celebrated in a unique way. Among these opportunities is the union of two elephants as the world's largest bride and groom. Also includedMarriage is the world's largest and the largest mass wedding underwater in the world.

Love is forever, everywhere you look.

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