Brief introduction of Swedish midsummer festival

Festival time: June 24th, or summer solstice every year or Saturday every week.

Types of festivals: traditional festivals and religious festivals.

The Origin of Festivals: Religion

Festival activities: Eucharist, candlelight, bells, incense burning, bonfires and dances.

Holiday diet: bread, wine

Holiday significance: driving away bad luck

Festival introduction:

Hot sweat carnival

Midsummer Festival is one of the biggest festivals in Sweden. Friends who have participated in it will recall the folk dances, folk music and white nights of the Mid-Summer Festival. The most famous midsummer holiday resort in Sweden is Rexhan in Dalana province. It is generally believed that the midsummer festival there is the most traditional.

On the morning of midsummer festival, people decorate their homes, cars, churches, dance halls and auditoriums with flowers and birch branches. Residents erected Maypole decorated with garlands and birch branches in the squares or sports fields of villages and towns. On a clear midsummer night, with the violin and accordion playing, people in national costumes danced around the pillars. People are singing and dancing in the long-awaited sunshine, all of which originated from the festivals of the pirate era.

Midsummer festival also often means rainy. Swedes are keen to watch the weather forecast before the festival and are eager for sunny, warm and pleasant weather. But in fact, rain or shine, people will enjoy the good times in summer. People will pick flowers and leaves to decorate the style of Mayday, because it is considered as a symbol of fertility. Later, the children will dance around style, and maybe one or two adults will sing the little frog's song with the children's dance movements. People wear garlands around their necks, and some people also wear traditional Swedish national costumes.

wedding

In rural areas, this day is also a day for young men and women to communicate freely and choose lifelong partners. In the evening, the girls rushed to the mountains in groups of three and five, covered with the afterglow of the sun and picking flowers of seven different colors. They believe that if the flowers picked at this time are placed on the pillow, they will form a partner with the prince charming in their dreams and get love as beautiful as flowers. When night comes, the girls will hold a bride selection activity. No matter who is chosen, she can choose a young man she likes as her life partner at will. Every midsummer festival, in addition to many girls choosing husbands, many couples hold weddings. It is said that marriage at this time will bring joy to the village for a year, and with the help of joy, the crops will grow better. .