Festivals on the Land Of Tradition, Scotland

Scotland Has many Iconic culture, here are some !

Hogmanay

A Photograph of Hogmanay Celebration in Edinburg

Hogmanay is an important holiday in Scotland, People will make a grand dinner with their fasaining (blessing). Like other places in the world, they also light the sky with fireworks at the new years eve. A Typical song that will be singed is Auld Lang Syne.
mily in their houses at the new year's eve. In the morning they will put on their warm clothes and do "the first footing", they will bring some coals and bread to be given to their neighbor, It means to give their neighborhood Warmth and Food for the rest of the year. They will also make some fireballs and swingit around the hall at the night. Scottish people will also do the

Robert Burns Potrait

Burn's Supper

A Burns supper is an important celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, influential author of many Scots poems. The suppers are normally held on or near the poet's birthday, 25 January, sometimes also known as Robert Burns Day or Rabbie Burns Night. The Main Dish Are Usually Haggis, a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's  (usually sheep's or calf's) stomach and simmered for approximately three hours. They will also Read Aloud Burn's Poem.

Highland Games

A Highland Games

Highland games are events held throughout the year (Usually Summer) in Scotland as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Certain aspects of the games are so well known as to have become emblematic of Scotland, such as the bagpipes, the kilt, and the heavy events, especially the caber toss. While centred on competitions in piping and drumming, dancing, and Scottish heavy athletics, the games also include entertainment and exhibits related to other aspects of Scottish and Gaelic culture. The games are claimed to have influenced Baron Pierre de Coubertin when he was planning the revival of the Olympic Games. De Coubertin saw a display of Highland games at the Paris Exhibition of 1889

Up Helly Aa

An Up Helly Aa celebration with a typical Norse attributes

It refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland, in Scotland, annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the yule (Christmas) season. The festival involves a procession of up to a thousand guizers in Lerwick and considerably lower numbers in the more rural festivals, formed into squads who march through the town or village in a variety of themed costumes.The current Lerwick celebration grew out of the older yule tradition of tar barrelling which took place at Christmas and New Year as well as Up Helly Aa. Squads of young men would drag barrels of burning tar through town on sledges, making mischief. After the abolition of tar barrelling around 1874–1880, permission was eventually obtained for torch processions. The first yule torch procession took place in 1876. The first torch celebration on Up Helly Aa day took place in 1881. 

Burning of the Clevie

A Burning "Clevie" Casks Pile

Burning the clavie is an ancient Scottish custom still observed at Burghead, a fishing village on the Moray Firth. The clavie is a collection of casks split in two, lighted as a bonfire in the evening of 11 January, or sometimes Hogmanay by the Julian Calendar. One of these casks is joined together again by a huge nail. It is then filled with tar, lighted and carried flaming round the village and finally up to a headland upon which stands the ruins of an altar, locally called the Douro. It here forms the gathering of the bonfire, which is built up of split casks. When the burning tar-barrel falls in pieces, the people scramble to get a lighted piece with which to kindle the New Year's fire on their cottage hearth. The charcoal of the clavie is collected and put in pieces up the cottage chimneys, to keep evil spirits and witches from coming down from the chimney, banishing them. In present Day this festival will be guarded by a group of firefighters to prevent burning.

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