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Valentine's Day - a day of lovers, and the symbols of the holiday course somehow linked with love.
The main character of course, the heart.
"Heart, you do not want peace!
Heart as well live in the world!
Heart as well, what are you!
Thank you for the heart, so that you are able to love! "
Doctors say that the impulses that make us choose from a number of single, for which we are ready for the madness, there are in the brain brain. Most of us do not care where or how they occur, people have long since tied with love hearts.
Thousands of poets composed a poem about it, thousands of singers singing a song about it. Heart has been, is and will be the main symbol of love. Therefore, "Valentine" do a little heart.
It is said that love is not there because of the pulses, and because of that little tomboy named winged Cupid, son of Venus loving inadvertently or specially pierce the heart of some of its boom couples. It helps him in this noble cause Cupid, the son of Aphrodite.
These two are also celestial celestial symbols of Valentine's Day. Their images painted on heart - "Valentine", their little statues give a sign glowing in the hearts of the senses.
Flowers
Sedrechki, boom - it's good, but what is love without flowers? Flowers gave her lover at all times. And not only the weak stronger sex, but also vice versa.
There were some romantic time, when men were singing serenades under the windows of their loved ones, and those of them kindly threw it from the balcony of a rose. Get a rose for a man believed to obtain consent for courtship and certainly meant love.
It was only later figured out that love is a red rose, in memory of what was once so in love Aphrodite hurried to his Adonis, that chopped rose about a foot and painted it red.
Of course, you can give a rose of any color without worrying about its meaning, but you can specifically choose the color to flowers to express what are hesitant to say the words.
It is believed that white roses presented as a sign of purity relations, pink in the hope that the relationship will become closer, yellow when only feelings of friendship, black, when the ratio of time to die.
Romantic symbols of love and loyalty
By the way, ladies - people are very resourceful. They are a sign of his affection gave not only roses, but their lace handkerchiefs. Knights received a gift, keep it holy, hidden in his chest. Parting with sim attribute their love could get only death.
If the knight did not realize that the woman had conceived a passion for him, it is he hinted, "accidentally" dropping a lace handkerchief so that the object of her passion could notice it and hurry to raise. What began dating with this innocent act!
What passions flared up then! Lace on scarves, lace cushions, lace on skirts ... Thin, delicate, forcing already troubled heart beat stronger. So lace became another symbol of love, and hence the Valentine's Day.
Swan fidelity, loyalty pigeon, little-known loyalty to the tiny birds wren ... I'll be a lot of birds, but the symbol of Valentine's Day became a dove and pigeon, because they liked Venus. Often they draw on the "Valentine" kissing, almost Spread Wings.
In Africa, the pigeons there, they have their own faithful bird, called the lovebirds. It is an African symbol of love.
Another symbol - rings. There is not just love, there's a serious matter, implying a proposal linked to the fate of their loved one forever.
They have the same meaning and gloves.
Less popular and almost forgotten symbol of love are the knots that had previously mated to a red ribbon. Such nodules meant eternal love.
And another almost unknown symbol of love, or rather a kiss, a sign "X". In some countries of it I do not know anything, and some, such as Greece, are quite common. How to do it? Fold the index fingers criss-cross and double-kiss. We analogue of this is the "kiss."
Many people in this day people are going to companies and eat birthday cake, where the pre-hiding various small items. The cake cut into pieces. Rice grains mean wedding and engagement ring.
Author Eleni Kerr
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