Not Just Dad's Arrival but Also History of Gifts

 My dad had been to Sakarya to see my grandmother -who is 93 years old- for a while. After the longing was over and wandered around, he came back from Sakarya today. As he hadn't told us when will he come, we couldn't welcome him. I wouldn't have welcomed him even if he had told me because I had homework to do. He knocked the door, we opened it, he entered the house, but he didn't get anything for us. When my mom noticed that, she complained to him, but that didn't change anything. At least, it is his own hometown and knows the place well, so it was not hard to buy something for us. Normally, when people come or visit somewhere, they bring gifts. It doesn't change if they are known or strange.

When I looked up the history of giving gifts, I coincided a book that Jacob Spon -who is an explorer- wrote. He is talking about giving gifts custom has started in Roman Empire's early times that book. According to the information he had gotten from Simmakus, in order to show respect to important people and rulers in the Roman kingdom, the branches of the verbena flower collected from the forests of Strenia, Goddess of Health, had sent especially on New Year's eve and holidays. Over time, this activity had become common and it had been customary to offer honey, dates and figs with verbena flower.

Although in the later period of the Roman Empire, the nobles had begun to prefer gifts filled with gold and jewelry, everything was limited by the dominance of the Roman church, but the tradition of gifts had not completely disappeared. In the 18th century, with the age of enlightenment, giving gifts and throwing banquets and parties were used together. It has been surviving to the present day since.

People are actually happy to have received gifts, not the gifts themselves. "I wonder what gift he/she bought me?" question excites and makes curious them in their regular life.

Time is running, I need to sleeping, that's all from me, it's time to closed surfing. Bye Bye👋🎁

byBoy

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