Since it is Valentine's Day, I will be giving some Trivia about this special occasion and at the same time, enjoy some pictures from Sta. Lucia East Grand Mall's Valentine's Day decorations. XOXO
Valentine's Day is named after Saint Valentine, a priest who was imprisoned during the Roman Empire for performing wedding for the soldiers. The Roman emperor forbid weddings to his soldiers because he believes that single men are better soldiers than those who are married. Saint Valentine continued to perform wedding even though he was already in prison and even miraculously healed his jail guard's daughter's blindness which led to the conversion of pagans to Christianity.
It was said that after the girl whom he healed from blindness was able to see again, Saint Valentine cut papers into heart shapes and wrote letters to her with a note "From Your Valentine" which started the giving of heart shaped letters to our loved ones and the use of the phrase "Your Valentine".
In most of the Christian countries, Valentine's Day is celebrated by giving of flowers, love letters and chocolates to our loved ones. Usually the men are the ones who give gifts to women but in some other countries like Japan and Korea, the women are obliged to give chocolates to the men and the day is called White Day.
A month after Valentine's Day is White Day and the men in return give chocolates and other gifts to women which should be more expensive than what was given to them. In Korea besides White Day, they also have Black Day which is a month after White Day and those who did not receive anything from the past two events eat black noodles or jajjangmyeon symbolizing their lack of love life.
In Islamic countries like Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, Valentine's Day is not celebrated and is actually banned. Sometimes people caught celebrating Valentine's Day or even just wearing red can get them charged for violating the law.
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