The ancient Chinese participated in a ceremony on the summer solstice to honor the earth, femininity and the force known as yin. The first Every year, a different teamâusually from out of stateâis invited to participate in the symbolic event. Residents of the city celebrate their many hours of daylight and nights that don't get fully dark this time of year with the White Nights Festival.This NASA photo shows the summer solstice from 2018.
All rights reserved So it should come as no surprise that the solstice is linked to fertility -- both of the plant and human variety -- in It will happen at 21:43 UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) on Saturday, June 20. Ancient Egyptians aligned the Great Pyramids so that the sun, when viewed from the Sphinx, sets precisely between two of the pyramids on the summer solstice.At high noon on the summer solstice, the sun appears at its highest point in the skyâits most directly overhead positionâin the Northern Hemisphere. From rock concerts to Stonehenge, people in the northern hemisphere have been celebrating the longest day of the year for centuries. For 2020, people in India are being urged to do their yoga at home with families.Call it love. The celebration predates Christianity, and existed under different names and traditions around the world. One of the largest annual solstice celebrations in the world takes place at Stonehenge in England, where thousands usually gather each year. It's the longest day only in the Northern Hemisphere. The Summer Solstice and its Celtic Traditions. "Drinking is the most typical Midsummer tradition.
In Singapore, a Northern Hemisphere city-state but one just barely above the equator, people barely notice the difference. Like many other events in 2020, it's having to alter traditions because of the pandemic.While the usual in-person gathering is on hold, you'll be able to live stream sunset on June 20 and sunrise on June 21 at the site of these precisely arranged giant stones on Talk about a short night. Plus, all the men like to show off, and make the biggest fire they can to jump through. An annular eclipse differs from a total eclipse, in which the entire sun is blocked. The summer solstice, otherwise known as midsummer, marks both the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and is technically the official start of summer. Notice the angle of the terminator (the line between day and night). There are historical pictures of people drinking to the point where they can't go on anymore," said Swahn. In 2020, Ivan Kupala Day starts on the evening of July 6 and ends of the evening of July 7. We'll start in Sweden.Their traditions include dancing around a maypole -- a symbol which some view as phallic -- and feasting on herring and copious amounts of vodka. "In my village, the older women always seem to come up with the dirtiest rhymes," says Eleni Fanariotou, who has filmed the custom. In ancient times, the date of the June Solstice was used to organize calendars and as a marker to figure out when to plant and harvest crops. When the sun reaches its apex in the Northern Hemisphere, that's the summer solstice.At that time, "the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, which is located at 23.5° latitude North, and runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and southern China," It's going to be a really big celestial weekend for some people in the Eastern Hemisphere.