"1213" means to love for a lifetime.

1——Represents the only, you, starting point; 2——Represents love, the world of two people. 3 - represents longing, life and life;

The number "520" was originally a homophonic expression of love expressed by netizens to their lovers, such as "5201314=I love you forever". Later, more and more people used it, and it gradually became a holiday for everyone. It was also the first fixed holiday in the virtual network world. Similar spontaneous online festivals include Double Eleven Singles’ Day, 818 Bagua Festival, 1011 Loli Festival, etc.

"Homophony" means "the pronunciation of words is the same or similar", and some people think that homophony "is a rhetorical method that uses the homophony or near-phony relationship of words to trigger people's associations." Chen Wangdao's "Rhetoric" summarizes the types of pun effects achieved through homophony from the perspective of "sound, shape, and meaning".

Extended information:

New words are generated by replacing the original words with words with homophones or near-phonemes, which are generally divided into three types:

The first type is based on Homophones based on Chinese characters include Mandarin words with homophones such as "pen core (to compare one's heart), Yali" (pressure), etc.; dialect words with homophones such as "lanshou (uncomfortable), shiitake mushrooms (want to cry), handkerchief (handicap)" "Plane)", and "Jiang Zi (like this), Did you make it (do you know)", etc.;

The second type is English-based homophonic words, such as "3Q (Thank you Thank you)" , CU (see you goodbye), fans (fans), shopping (shopping)", etc.;

The third type is new words formed by using the homophony of numbers, such as "520 (I love you), 1314 (for life)" and so on.

People's Daily Online - "Children's shoes, rice porridge, 520" - how to treat emerging homophones