It`s the festival held during the night from June 23 to June 24 to celebrate the summer solstice (Midsummer), the shortest night and longest day of the year.
Celebrations consist of a lot of traditional elements - eating Jāņu cheese, drinking beer, singing Latvian folk songs dedicated to Jāņi, burning bonfire to keep light all through the night and jumping over it, wearing wreaths of flowers and leaves.
P.S. ...for Midsummer`s it looks like it`s gonna rain even here in Rizhao - the Sunshine city ;)
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