What is Finnish culture, photography and art

Language Religion

Finnish and Swedish are both official languages. 77.7% of the residents believe in Lutheran Christianity, and 1.2% believe in Orthodox Christianity. The remainder include a small number of Protestant Christians, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews. Finland has two official languages: Finnish, spoken by 93% of the population, and Swedish, the mother tongue of 6% of the population. [3]

Movies

Finnish films also have a variety of themes. The most famous one is the film "Winter War" shot in the early 1990s, which reflected the Soviet-Finnish border war. War), "Jade Warrior" co-produced with China in 2006, "The Man Without A Past" (The Man Without A Past) which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival, "City Unplugged" (Unplugged) The City) also called (Dark Tallinn) was shot by the famous Finnish director Ilkka J?rvi-Laturi. The film premiered in 1993. It has won many awards at international film festivals and was featured in the "London Times" and NY POST "New York Post" In the selection of "The Silence of the Lambs", it ranked second among the best crime films in history.

Music

At the end of the 1980s, the country's dark death metal force was extremely powerful, and there were already many excellent underground death metal bands. Gradually, some bands achieved great commercial success, such as Stratovarius, impaled nazarene, Amorphis, children of bodom, Nightwish, and Eternal tears of sorrow, all of which appeared on the largest local music charts. From then on, metal music all over the world Fans have set their sights on Finland, famous ones include Demigod, Abhorrence, Sentenced, Amorphis, Impaled Nazarene, Yxysma, Beherit, Sarcofagus, etc., and Finnish new generation bands Nightwish, HIM, Entwine, Charon, To Die For, 69 Eyes, Shamrain, The Finnish Metal army formed by Soulrelic is even more popular all over the world.

Customs and taboos

Finns are reserved and simple. The severe climatic conditions, beautiful natural environment, special geographical location and historical reasons have enabled the Finns to form a very distinctive national character and culture. They like to use "sisu", a word that cannot be translated in other languages, to describe their national character. It probably refers to the Finnish people's kindness and honesty, law-abiding, introverted, not good at talking, as well as their tenacious spirit and unusual patience. Features. It is considered everyone's right to enjoy holidays, and there are relatively many holidays. On holidays (including Sundays), all shops are closed and even the bus frequency is less than half that of usual times. Sauna is the national quintessence of Finland. There are approximately 1.92 million saunas in the country, with an average of one for every three people.

Festival

Independence Day: December 6 (1917)

Midsummer Festival: June 25, 2004, according to traditional folk customs across Finland A Midsummer celebration is held. People dressed in national costumes performed various traditional folk handicraft performances, lit blazing bonfires, and celebrated the midsummer night with singing and dancing.

College Students Hat-Wearing Festival: College students from all over Helsinki gathered at the South Pier Square to hold a hat-wearing ceremony for the bronze statue of Harveys Amanda in the circular fountain in the center of the square. At the same time, the college students present wore white hats that symbolize college students, drank champagne that had been prepared, and congratulated themselves on their own festival.

Christmas: Finland is the hometown of Santa Claus. Although Christmas is still a month away, Santa Claus has already arrived in the capital Helsinki early to participate in the traditional Christmas light-turning ceremony. Local people dressed up as snowflakes, forest animals, Snow White, etc., led reindeer from the northern region and happily participated in the parade celebration.

Helsinki Samba Carnival: On June 13, 2009, Helsinki held the 19th Samba Carnival. On the same day, samba lovers and teachers and students from samba schools from all over Finland held a carnival parade in the center of Helsinki.

Picking Festival: Picking wild berries and wild mushrooms in the wild is one of the ways to appreciate the pure nature of Finland. In other countries, you may need to pay a fee and there are regional restrictions, but under the protection of Finland's national regulations Everyman's Rights, you can pick at will. In Finland, 67% of people will do this as a summer activity.