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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th each year. It is a traditional festival in the West, but now it is popular with all of us. As far as I know, most of you would like to celebrate the festival, but I want to tell you something in detail about it. First of all, let me tell you the origin of the festival. In fact, there are many legends about the origination of the Valentine's Day. For the time is limited, I choose only one of them to tell you in brief. In Britain, birds tend to show their love on this day, and people also believe that it is a good day to propose.

The Story of St. Valentine

Valentine's Day is also known as the Feast of Saint Valentine. It is said that St. Valentine was a Roman who was martyred for refusing to give up Christianity. He died on February 14, 269 A.D., the same day that had been devoted to love lotteries. Legend also says that St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, who had become his friend, and signed it "From Your Valentine." Other aspects of the story say that Saint Valentine served as a priest at the temple during the reign of Emperor Claudius. Claudius then had Valentine jailed for defying him. In 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius set aside February 14th as a day to honor St. Valentine.

Valentine's Day Traditions

On Valentine's Day, lovers all around the world mark this occasion as a day for sending poems, cards, flowers or candy, etc. They might also be a social gathering or ball to mark the occasion. Many Valentine's Day customs involved ways that single women could learn who their future husbands would be. Englishwomen of the 1700's wrote men's names on scraps of paper, rolled each in a little piece of clay, and dropped them all into water. The one whose paper floated was supposed to be their future husband.

A Valentine's Day Message

Good morning everyone, it's my honor to stand here to make a speech. And I want to introduce something about Valentine's Day to you. It is known to us all, Valentine's Day is on February 14th and it is a traditional festival in west, but now it is popular with all of us. As far as I know, most of you would like to celebrate the festival, but I want to tell you something in detail about it. First of all, let me tell you the origin of the festival. In fact, there are many legends about the origination of the Valentine's Day. For the time is limited, I choose only one of them to tell you in brief. In Britain, birds tend to show their love on this day, and people also believe that it is a good day to propose.