A kiss is, perhaps, one of the strangest things that you can celebrate a day. Nevertheless, there is a popular holiday known all over the world - World Kiss Day, celebrated on July 6 of each year.
history of the holiday
The birthplace of the holiday is Great Britain . It is known that he appeared thanks to a dentist who decided that if people kissed more often, they would pay much more attention to the condition of their teeth and, therefore, they would also visit more often such doctors. It happened at the end of the XIX century, and the holiday has survived until now, acquiring ever greater scope with the passage of time.
There is an opinion that the World Kiss Day celebrated on July 6 (or, as it is also called, the International Day of Kisses) is an official holiday approved by the UN. This is not so, and anyone can check it on the relevant site. So the day of the kiss is celebrated informally. But this does not mean that the celebrations are not held on a grand scale.
Interesting Facts
Of course, various events and contests are organized, on which, for example, couples try to kiss longer than others. Once a couple from Thailand kissed 58 hours! There are also records on the mass nature of such competitions, on the frequency of kisses and so on. In different countries there are also their days of celebration. So, in Japan it's May 23 - in honor of the day in which the kiss scene was first shown. This was the film "Twenty Years".
By the way, the Japanese attitude to kissing is not quite the same as ours: it even happens that people, seeing a kiss on TV, immediately turn it off. But they eventually share our traditions more and more.
And in 1990, an American kissed more than 8,000 people in 8 hours. Imagine what it was like to kiss so much, and almost continuously!
The first kiss on the screen was shown in a short film by William Haze, filmed in the late XIX century. It was performed by Mae Irwin and John S. Rice.
In addition to the aforementioned pair from Thailand, Regis Tumi and Jane Vyman were set a record - only in the history of cinema. Yes, in the old movie "You'reinthearmynow" we can watch the longest "kinoshny" kiss. It lasted 185 seconds.
The Importance of Kissing
The prevalence and importance of kisses in modern life can not be overestimated. Now you will not see a couple who would not kiss, and even the kiss is planted in culture for many centuries. And today, when in many European countries Puritan customs have come to naught, kisses are completely familiar to us.
And not only in a romantic relationship. A kiss is an integral part of the relationship between children and parents. Again, do not find a mother who does not periodically kiss her child. And what can we say about friendly kisses, which are encountered more and more often?
But the attitude to kissing is different for people of different sexes or different countries. Thus, studies show that for women kisses are important and even necessary, while for most men such an acute need is absent.
Different countries are often different cultures. Thus, somewhere kissing is not so widespread and widespread, and, for example, in the religions of some peoples of Africa in general it is forbidden to kiss.
No matter how they call this holiday - Kisses Day, World Kiss Day, International Kisses Day, - on July 6, something amazing happens. Like the kiss itself. People have kissed for a long time and will kiss for many centuries, because it is laid in our culture, so why not enjoy this pleasant thing, marking a holiday in her honor?
So many people decide. Therefore, in Russia and in other countries every year there are so many interesting events devoted to this sweet holiday.