Chapter 21 lovers and angels

Dear Xiaowen: I received your February 13th letter and card yesterday.You've got such good grades--such good grades in just a few months, Dad is very happy.Now is the time for you to catch up with your homework, so unlike other children, you have to spend more time on homework than them, and wait until your homework catches up with them before you can have fun, right? Valentine's Day (Valentines Day) is not completely translated as "Valentine's Day", it should be translated as "Love Festival" or "Love Day". St. Valentine was a Christian 1,700 years ago. There were two of them, both of whom were beheaded by the Romans on February 14th, but this festival has nothing to do with them.

There is only one letter difference from the word Valentine. There is a word called Valentino, which is the famous movie star Valentino half a century ago.He was a window washer, became the great lover, and died at the age of thirty-one. Thousands of female movie fans attended his funeral.If my grandma was in the United States at that time, she would definitely go to participate, because my grandma was only sixteen years old at that time. The Valentine's Day card has a heart pierced by an arrow, the same card you gave to Dad, do you know why?In mythology, the goddess of love and beauty is called Venus, and her child is called Cupid, the god of love. She has a bow and arrows in her hands, and the arrows are gold and silver. If he shoots a golden arrow, she will fall in love Happiness, love is painful when he shoots silver arrows.Cupid not only shoots others, but also shoots himself. He falls in love with a woman who is so beautiful that Venus envies him, and the world is turned upside down.

The Cupid in the picture has wings, sometimes it is painted as a young man, sometimes it is painted as a fat doll, but in the picture it is an angel who does not hold a bow and arrow, and there are nine levels of angels: The first level is seraph (seraph); The second level is cherub (all dolls); The ninth level is the angel (mostly girlish). dad March 2, 1974