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Valentine’s day Valentine’s day 1. What is valentine’s day 2. The origin of Valentines Day. 3. Various Valentine day 4. Chinese Valentine day 5.How to celebrate valentine day 6. Love Quotes February 14 is valentine day. valentine day is a festival of romance and affection ,honoring lovers ,and is an interesting combination of pagan and Christian influences. It’s a holiday for lovers, husbands and wives ,children ,and anyone else who wants to remember this day. What’s valentine day pagan [‘peig?n] n. 异教徒，无宗教信仰者 adj. 异教的，异教徒的，无宗教信仰的 ★ Christian [krist??n] n. 基督徒adj. 基督教的，基督徒的 The origin of Valentines Day.? One story tells that some of the day’s customs probably derive from an ancient Roman holiday called Lupercalia During the Lupercalia festival young women dropped poems bearing their names into a large vase . Each young man picked a name from the vase to find his sweetheart for that year . There are varying opinions as to the origin of Valentines Day.? During the Middle Age church leaders wanted to relate this pagan holiday to Christianity so they renamed it after a Christian saint who was an example of love , and moved the holiday from February 15 to February 14 the fastival gradually become associated with the feast day of two Roman martyrs both named St. Valentine, who lived in the 3rd century .However , no one is sure which one the holiday is named after . According to a legend ,in the 3rd century ,the Roman emperor thought that married men didn’t like to leave home and stay in the army .So he gave the order that men were prohibited from getting married .But Pope Valentine kept presiding wedding ceremonies secretly for many young couples against the emperor’s order .For being against the king’s order ,he was honored as a patron saint of lovers on that day