๐ซ Valentineโs Day Celebrations in America
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ ๋ฒ
Valentineโs Day is a holiday celebrated all around the world. In Korea and Japan, women give gifts and chocolate to men, and men give gifts to women on White Day, which is a month later. In Finland and Estonia, people celebrate Friendโs Day on February 14th to honor not only their significant others but also their friends. Today, weโll look at how Valentineโs Day is celebrated in America with its own special traditions.
๋ฐ๋ ํ์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ ๋ ์ด์์. ํ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ณธ์์๋ ์ฌ์ฑ์ด ๋จ์ฑ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ , ํ ๋ฌ ๋ค ํ์ดํธ๋ฐ์ด ๋ ๋จ์ฑ์ด ์ฌ์ฑ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ค๋๋ค. ํ๋๋์ ์์คํ ๋์์์๋ 2์ 14์ผ์ โ์น๊ตฌ์ ๋ โ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ์ธ๋ฟ ์๋๋ผ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ ํด์. ์ค๋์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋์ง, ๊ทธ ํน๋ณํ ์ ํต๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ดํด๋ณผ๊ฒ์.
Gift-giving on Valentineโs Day in America may seem different from the traditions in Korea and Japan. For example, boxes of chocolates are usually given to women. These boxes of chocolates can be special on their own, as they often come in the shape of a heart and offer a variety of fillings inside each piece. Flowers are also a popular choice, as is jewelry. Donโt be surprised if you see many men buying heart-shaped lockets or diamonds for their significant others on or right before the holiday.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์ด๋ฐ์ด์ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ํ๊ตญ, ์ผ๋ณธ์ ์ ํต๊ณผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ณด์ผ ์ ์์ด์. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ์์๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ฌ์ฑ๋ค์ด ๋ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ์์๋ ํํธ ๋ชจ์์ผ๋ก ๋์์ธ๋์ด ์์ด ์์๋ง์ผ๋ก๋ ํน๋ณํ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ ํด์. ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ์์๋ ๋ค์ํ ํ๋ง์ด ๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฝ ์ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ธ๊ธฐ ์๊ณ , ๋ณด์๋ ๋ง์ด ์ ๋ฌผํด์. ๋ฐ๋ ํ์ธ๋ฐ์ด ๋น์ผ์ด๋ ์ง์ ์ ๋ง์ ๋จ์ฑ๋ค์ด ์ฐ์ธ์ ์ํด ํํธ ๋ชจ์์ ๋ก์ผ ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด๋ ๋ค์ด์๋ชฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ๊ฑธ ๋ณด๋๋ผ๋ ๋๋ผ์ง ๋ง์ธ์.
Giving gifts and chocolates isnโt limited to couples; many elementary school students enjoy the holiday in their classrooms. Store-bought cards and candy are handed out by students to their classmates, often with messages like "Be My Valentine." In high school, itโs common for students to send each other a "candy gram" instead of buying cards for everyone. These candy grams usually consist of cards, candy, or balloons and are delivered to students throughout the school day.
๊ผญ ์ฐ์ธ๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ง ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฌผ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ฑด ์๋์์. ๋ง์ ์ด๋ฑํ์์ด ๊ต์ค์์ ์ด๋ ์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ์ฃ . ํ์๋ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ์์ ์ฐ ์นด๋์ ์ฌํ์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋๋ ์ค์. ์ข
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โBe My Valentineโ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ ์ด ๋ฃ๊ณค ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๋ฑํ๊ต์์๋ ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ ์นด๋๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ ๋์ , ์๋ก โ์บ๋ ๊ทธ๋จโ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ๊ฒ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ด์์. ์บ๋ ๊ทธ๋จ์๋ ๋ณดํต ์นด๋, ์ฌํ, ํ์ ๋ฑ์ด ๋ค์ด ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๋ ํ๋ฃจ ๋์ ํ์๋ค์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ผ์.
Finally, while it is very common to take your significant other out for a romantic dinner, many American couples sometimes choose to spend the day doing what might seem like an everyday activity. For instance, some couples might cook dinner together or go on a hike. Others might take a more romantic route by recreating their first date. Sharing love and kindness by volunteering is another great way to spend the holiday, and it can be done even if you are single.
๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก ์ฐ์ธ์ ์ํ ๋ก๋งจํฑํ ์ ๋
์์ฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋๋ฐ์, ๊ทธ๋ฅ ํ๋ฒํ๊ฒ ์ผ์์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ ์ปคํ๋ ๋ง์ด ์์ด์. ๊ฐ์ด ์ ๋
์ ์๋ฆฌํ๊ฑฐ๋ ํ์ดํน์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ฑ์ด์. ์ฒซ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ฌํํ๋ฉฐ ๋์ฑ ๋ก๋งจํฑํ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ์ปคํ๋ ์์ฃ . ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์น์ ์ ๋๋๋ ๋ด์ฌํ๋์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ๊ธฐ๋
์ผ์ ๋ณด๋ด๋ ์ข์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ผ ๊ฑฐ์์. ์ด๊ฑด ์ฑ๊ธ์ธ ์ฌ๋๋ ํ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ฃ ?
There isnโt just one way to celebrate Valentineโs Day in America, and that is what makes the tradition special. Whether itโs through big gestures or simple acts of kindness, the holiday offers everyone a chance to show affection and appreciation in their own unique way.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์ธ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋
ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ํ๋๋ก ์ ํด์ ธ ์์ง ์์์. ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด ์ ์ด ์ ํต์ ๋์ฑ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ฃผ์ฃ . ํฌ๊ณ ํ๋ คํ ์ด๋ฒคํธ๋ , ์์ํ ์น์ ์ด๋ , ์ด๋ ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ง๋ค์ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ฌ์ ๋ง์์ ํํํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. |