Finnish customs and habits

Finns have a national tradition of "paying attention to etiquette, self-cultivation, novelty and freedom" in social activities. Guests are generally warm and casual. When guests visit, they will not only invite them to dinner, but also take the initiative to invite them to take a steam bath according to local folk customs.

Entertaining VIPs often likes to hold fish food banquets. At the beginning of the banquet, the host uncovered the white cloth covering the table and put a big, rooster-shaped, dark brown toast in a beautiful basin. This bread contains fish and pig offal. Its delicious food will make you full of praise.

2. Rules

Finns usually shake hands when meeting guests on formal occasions. They also kiss, but it is usually a honey friendship between relatives. Lip kissing is generally only between lovers, between lovers.

Of course, the manners and customs among the five Scandinavian countries are different, but it may be more important for foreign guests to understand their similarities. Although Finland is different from its neighbors in language and nationality, the customs and lifestyles of people in Scandinavia are roughly the same.

3. Religion

About 83% of Finns belong to Evangelical Lutheran Church, and 1. 1% of Finns belong to Finnish Orthodox Church. However, most people's religious ideas are quite secular and they don't go to church often. Nevertheless, churches and priests enjoy high prestige and personal religious views are respected. In daily life, it is difficult to see the difference between believers and non-believers. The former may live a more temperate life.

4. Eating habits?

Finnish cooking has elements of Western Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. Table manners are European. Breakfast can be very rich. The enhancement of nutrition awareness has changed Finns from greasy and heavy food to light diet.

Extended data:

Introduction to Finnish seasonal habits;

In Finland, the four seasons mark very important changes in a year. Finland's territory extends farther north in the Arctic Circle, with extreme temperatures and sunshine. Finland has two cultures, one is controlled by almost constant summer sunshine and surprisingly high temperature, and the other is characterized by ruthless winter and the darkness of the Arctic occasionally penetrated by the dim light of day.

Finland welcomes summer every year, and Finns still attach great importance to it, so that after the midsummer festival at the end of June, almost the whole country will be closed for five to six weeks. Finns go to rural summer homes in large numbers. People who don't have summer homes relax outdoors, such as cafes and bars on the street, parks and beaches. Everyone seems friendly, sociable and active.

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