Take out your holiday lights and warm blankets to snuggle into as the winter solstice is here on Saturday, bringing the shortest day and longest night of the year to the Northern Hemisphere.

The end of the year is just around the corner, and a new year is on its way. *According to the 24 Solar Terms of Reiwa 6 and 7 (2024-25), Touji is from December 21, 2024, to January 5, 2025.

Culture is the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of ...

Themes: The summer and winter solstices; the seasons and the Earth’s orbit around the sun; celebrations of the solstices around the world, including at Stonehenge; the beauty of the natural world.