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As the festival represents the winter solstice, it is a crucial time to harvest winter crops, such as wheat, barley, and radishes. It is also an important time to pay respect to certain livestock and feed these animals special meals to celebrate the occasion. [9] Traditionally, the Dongzhi Festival is a time for families to eat together. [8]
A winter festival, winter carnival, snow festival, or frost fair is an outdoor cold weather celebration that occurs in wintertime. Winter festivals are popular in D climates (see Köppen climate classification ) where winter is particularly long or severe, such as Siberia , Scandinavia , Canada and the northern United States .
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Admission to the festival is free. For those interested in participating in the beard competition , there is a $10 entry fee and Feb. 7 deadline. For more information, visit the event's Facebook page.
Yule was first celebrated as far back as the fifth century (so, over 1,500 years back) by Germanic pagans, as a midwinter festival to stave off the dark and cold and prepare for the long winter ...
Reykjavik Festival is an annual event, usually taking place in the capital of Iceland, during the first days of February (4-7 February in the recent edition of 2016). The aim of this festival is to stimulate the city life in the midwinter and to celebrate both the winter world and the growing light after a long period of darkness.
The Winter Festival - a Celebration of Lights, Music and the Arts is set to fill downtown Tallahassee with merriment on Saturday, Dec. 2, from 3-10 p.m. Jingle Bell Run registration closes Dec. 1.