Every February 14, we celebrate this holiday in different ways for more than 700 years. It’s a special, romantic day when you can make a declaration of love, make a present like a card, chocolate, flowers or other every possible hearts as a sign of love. This holiday has no national borders or some limits in celebration. Every country has own traditions and customs how to celebrate this wonderful and marvelous holiday for in love one or lone person who searches his half of heart. So, the citizens of every country try to make their contribution or something special like a raisin in this day.
There is a whole list of how some countries celebrate this holiday. According to the history of that day, the tradition of celebration was created in Europe, so we will start from there.
The post cards about love were firstly brought by gallant French. Instead of post cards with hearts, they also give the linen, chocolate mousse, candies, romantic travel, happy lottery-tickets, cut sausage in the form of heart, pink yogurts. Moreover, this day is the most luckiest day for offer one’s hand.
Generally speaking, this day is called “the sweet day” in Italy. From the name of this holiday we can exactly say that the presents will be candies, cookies and chocolate in the form of heart.
Germans have their strange and weird traditions about that holiday. They don’t give some presents or gifts to their lovers, but they decorate some psychiatric clinics by pink tapes. This type of celebration is weird and extraordinary for those who celebrate it in usual way.
In Denmark people send love-letter without name and some white flowers. These white flowers are more better variant than typical and boring kinds of flowers.
One traditional romantic Welsh gift is a love spoon. These spoons were decorated with different things that can explain your love. They make it with the deep sense into the spoon. It’s unusual method to show your love and feeling.
Quiet Poles prefer to visit the Poznan mother country where Saint Valentin’s relics are based this day and over the main throne there is its wonder-working icon. They believe that this way of celebration is reminding of virtue Valentine.
The most popular place where this holiday celebrate a really huge quantity of people is USA. They adore flavor with chocolate, roses, post cards. Americans generally give candies or other sweet things in the form of heart. Many times ago they gave marzipan to their lovers because of the prise of marzipan. According to statistics, Americans buy more than 20 thousand roses this day.
There is one extraordinary tradition of celebration in Japan. This day for men is like March 8 for women. All gifts should give women. It can be a razor, gel, perfume , notebook, pens. Moreover, all girls should give chocolates to young men with whom they are simply familiar. It occurs not only in the youth environment, but also in more solid age category. Chocolates give not only to beloved, but also on the assumption of call of duty.
And Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where this holiday is officially forbidden. As conclusion we can say that every country has their Valentine’s Day traditions all around the world. So, if you want to congratulate somebody from another country you should note these traditions.