Nordic Midsummer Festival

Midsummer is an important traditional festival celebrated in the Nordic countries. Midsummer Festival is held every year on Fridays between June 19th and 25th. Some people will stop working on Thursday afternoons to prepare for the Midsummer Festival program, in order to welcome the traditional festival of Midsummer Festival.

Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and other Nordic countries are close to the North Pole and have long winters. In most of these areas, the sun is almost invisible for half a year every year. Every year around Midsummer, these areas will usher in the sunniest season of the year. At the same time, Midsummer is also the longest day of the day, with almost no night. So people hold bonfires every year to celebrate the day when darkness recedes, light comes, and all things win glory. After all, after the cold winter night, the sunny summer is really pleasant.

The most important part of Midsummer is the bonfire party. According to ancient tradition, the bonfire must be lit by the newlyweds. Everyone will perform various traditional folk handicraft performances in national costumes, light a roaring bonfire, and then spend the midsummer night singing and dancing together.

The origin of Midsummer Night was actually a Midsummer Festival set to commemorate the summer solstice at the beginning, but since Northern Europe changed to Catholicism, it was set up to commemorate the birthday of Christian John the Baptist (June 24), to Later, its religious color gradually disappeared, and gradually it became a folk festival, which is happily celebrated every year.