Happy Christmass and a Merry New Year to all
We have a "mid winter" celebration, involving admonitions to behave, get rid of bad influences, much like traditional new years resolutions.
Also today culture we do have a family and friends celebration on Dec. 31st night.
For winter solstice some nations fired flaming arrows to re-light the sun and make the days longer (it never failed)
A lot of ours ceremonies and customs have been lost.