Saint Valentine's Day traditions from around the World!

Saint Valentine's Day

I want to tell about St.Valentine Day, the day of LOVE! I proposed 

to your  attention differences between cultures of celebrating St.Valentine day in the world. 

I am going to tell about Britain, Kazakhstan, Spain and France.

Valentines Day in Britain

  In Britain can be found so many verses of love and affairs of the heart that have been so beautifully penned in honor of St Valentine.

  In Britain various parts of the kingdom celebrate their own customs and as the day approached all magazines were readying for the day that they published sonnets and verses to commemorate St Valentine's Day.      

Valentines Day in Spain

 
In Spain it is customary for courting couples to exchange gifts and for  husbands to send their wives a bunch of roses.









Valentines Day in France


In France a custom of drawing for would occur, this was were young unmarried people as well as older unmarried people would go into houses facing each other and start calling out across from one window to another, pairing of with the one they have chosen. If the young man didn't fancy his valentine he would desert her and as a result afterwards a bonfire would be lit where the young ladies would burn images of the young man and would yell out abuse as she burnt the image of the young man.








This eventually fell into dishonor because it left too much room for nastiness, ridicule or even malice. For example an unsavory type of man might be paired with a flirtatious young lady, just for fun.
As a result of these customs the French government was forced into handing down a decree that there would be no more pairing or calling of Valentines.











Valentines Day in Kazakhstan





Kazakh celebrates St. Valentine Day  
on April, 15. 

 The holiday is called Ulttyk Gashyktar Kunine Oray (meaning All Lovers' Day in the Kazakh language). 


The holiday was named the Day of Kozy Korpersh and Bayan Sulu after two lovers from a 13 century Kazakh epic. April 15 was selected because in mid-April the weather usually starts to warm up all over the vast country.











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