Happy Valentine’s Day How much do you know about Valentine’s Day culture?

Different countries celebrate Valentine’s Day with different customs, the way couples show their love, and the names they call each other. Do you know these cross-cultural tips? Hurry up and get up on this sweet day!In the Philippines, there is a creative turning point that not only couples celebrate Valentine’s Day, but single people also celebrate Valentine’s Day. On some social media, there are many posts offering help to couples who are dating, and single people take photos of the couples or send flowers;

In Japan and South Korea, it is customary for girls to give chocolates to their boyfriends and friends, but in Japan, there is also a “payback day”, on March 14, when men give chocolates or cookies to their girlfriends and friends in return.

In Vietnam, it’s not just couples who celebrate Valentine’s Day. Single people also celebrate Valentine’s Day. They celebrate Valentine’s Day with their closest friends or family.

In Russia, most people celebrate Valentine’s Day. They participate in street activities and give gifts to each other as if it is just a normal celebration day, a chance for them to relax.

In Brazil, South America, there believe in a person called “SAN Antonio”, he is also the Brazilian culture of the “matchmaker”, so every year Valentine’s Day, Brazil around the SAN Antonio church has become the main location of activities;

In most African tribes, Valentine’s Day is the perfect date to get married. It’s a day where countless African couples exchange rings, the man offers good cognac, people dance around the campfire, and everyone is served traditional salty scones.

In Italy, in recent years, couples have hung a lock on a lamppost on Rome’s Mirvio Bridge on Valentine’s Day, a symbol of mutual affection. Then he threw the key into the river under the bridge to show that they would never part.

In France, couples are everywhere snuggling up, kissing and cuddling as if no one else is watching them as they enjoy Valentine’s Day.

In the United States, many couples choose to get away from the world and go to the park to enjoy nature on Valentine’s Day.

How many countries know the name of love.

Americans call lovers “my honey”;

Arabs use “My cucumber”;

Lithuanians use “beer”;

Poles compare their lovers to “biscuits”;

The Japanese say “beautiful mountain flowers”;

The French call their loved ones “cabbages”;

The Ziku’s highest pet name for their lover is “my little garlic”;

Greek girls like to be called “like golden worms”;

When Finns miss their lovers, they call them “tender little leaves”.

The Litany excitedly compares a lover to “my little herring”;

Romantic Viennese call loved ones “my little snail”;

Czech Bohemia’s most rich expression of love is “my mother’s soul”;

Serbs call their lovers “crickets”;

In Yugoslavia, the Garnyola people use “my grass” to express the most passionate feelings for a lover.

Isn’t that kind of fun?

The original intention of Valentine’s Day is to give lovers around the world a day to commemorate, but it has been given a lot of other meanings due to the “transformation” of it in different places. However, no matter which way of celebration, it can be seen that planners attach great importance to this festival. The diversified ways of celebration and the diversified names for lovers in different countries give us a new understanding in cross-cultural communication. This may be the colorful charm of language and culture.