Midsummer Festival is a traditional festival in the Nordic countries. Held every year after June 24. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in Sweden, basically around the Chinese summer solstice, which is the most beautiful time of the year in Sweden.

Almost all the people in the city will bring small blankets to parks, lakes and other places where the government organizes Midsummer activities, girls regardless of age will wear beautiful flower dresses, some will also bring flower crowns, really like fairies, especially there are many lovely and beautiful little girls, sweet and soft, see the heart is melted.

The event features a violin and accordion band playing traditional Midsummer songs and everyone holding hands and dancing in circles around the tall pole set up in the center. The dance is simple, imitating the lyrics of animals such as ducklings, elephants, pigs, little bees, and some holiday poses, cleaning the house, and so on. Beautiful mother will not say much, but also often can see some iron man tenderness to see two iron man father in hand to dance in a circle, stiffly pulled up each other's hairy hands.


Originally, it may have been set up to commemorate the birthday of the summer solstice (June 24), but later its religious color gradually disappeared and became a folk holiday.

According to ancient tradition, the bonfire is lit by the newly married couple. People dressed in national costumes performed various traditional folk crafts, and lit bonfires, singing and dancing to celebrate the midsummer night.

Sweden, Finland and other Nordic countries are close to the North Pole, the winter is long, most areas can not see the sun for almost half a year.
Around Midsummer, the region has the sunniest time of the year, and Midsummer is the longest day with almost no night.

So people celebrate the day when light will drive out darkness and all things will compete for glory.

Midsummer Festival has a very long history in Finland. Before Christianity was introduced to Finland in ancient times, it was already a deep-rooted pagan custom among the indigenous people.

The village is also very happy on that day every year, so everyone used to take it as a farm festival.

Even in the city, people would buy birch branches and lilacs from the market to decorate their homes and dress up to feel like a village.

Anthropologists say that in ancient times, people living in Britain would perform rituals by wizards on the summer solstice to welcome this special day.

Some megalithic structures from the Stone Age in Britain are believed to be associated with this celebration.

The famous Stonehenge, south-west of London, and nearby Avebury, which is much larger, are said to be examples.
Many of the so-called "New Age believers" travel long distances each year to gather at Stonehenge just before dawn on the summer solstice to celebrate.

Many say that seeing the sun rise between the boulders on the summer solstice is an experience of a lifetime.

Although the summer solstice, the day with the longest day and the shortest night, falls on June 21 in the Gregorian calendar, Midsummer Eve is celebrated in the United Kingdom on the evening of June 22.

There is a wonderful legend about the origin of Midsummer: in ancient Greek and Roman mythology, there was a goddess named Cyrus.

She spread her seed to the world and gave the earth its bountiful produce: trees, flowers, grain... In order to thank the goddess Cyrus, people worshiped her and prayed that she would bring them a good harvest every year. Nowadays, people have long since disbelieved in ghosts and gods, and the stories handed down have become a folk custom. The story reflects people's good wishes for life.

The reason why the flower crown of the "Goddess of grain" is woven with cauliflower is of its own origin. According to legend, on a night in late spring and early summer, Pengzi cauliflower competed to open, and the mountains were covered with yellow flowers.