Harbin Ice Lantern FestivalThe annual Harbin Ice Lantern Festival begins on January 5 and continues through the end of February. There is no charge for the Harbin Ice Lantern Festival.
Harbin Ice Lantern Festival is the birthplace of Chinese ice lantern art, the National Tourism Administration as one of the country's 35 "stunning beauty" tourist attractions. Harbin Ice Lantern Festival every year from January 5, has been extended to the end of February.
Since 1985, the annual Harbin Ice Festival held during the Ice Lantern Festival, visitors can not only participate in the Ice Lantern Festival, viewing a variety of ice sculpture art, but also to participate in the Songhua River Ice World of sports activities, sitting on the ice sails, playing ice monkeys, ice skating, watching the winter swimming competitions and weddings on the ice, ice and snow festival cultural and artistic evenings, and other activities.
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Harbin Ice Lantern Parade Background:
On February 1, 1963, on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, Ren Zhongyi and the mayor, Lv Qi'en, went to Xiangfang District to inspect the work of the city, and inspected a new free market (i.e., farmers' market). When out of the free market, Ren Zhongyi suddenly found an old woman squatting on the side of the road, in front of a clay ice lamp.
Ren Zhongyi returned home to live next door to Lv Qi'en and neighboring Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Secretary Lin Xiao Kip called over to ice lamp experiments. 3 February, Ren Zhongyi in his home, convened the competent deputy mayor Zhang Ping and deputy director of the Municipal Bureau of Construction and other relevant leaders, held a small informal on-site work conference.
Ren Zhongyi put forward a bold idea discussed with Lv Qi'en, Lin Xiao Kip and others: "Today is the tenth day of the first month of the first day of the Lantern Festival in 5 days, the year is not over. Guangzhou has a flower show, New Year's Eve to engage in the flower market, southern Lantern Festival lanterns around the Lantern Festival. We do not have a flower market, lanterns, you can go to the first day of the first month of the fifteenth day, in Zhaolin Park to engage in an ice lantern exhibition, called the Ice Lantern Parade, you see how?"
Ren Zhongyi saw the cadres have a hard time, then he saw and heard in Guangzhou Culture Park, and with Lv Qi'en in Xiangfang District, saw the old lady to do the "poor stick lamps" thing in detail once again, but also to let the cadres present to watch him and Lv Qi'en in the yard, Lin Xiao Kip and the children to do a long row of candles lit hollow ice pile lampshade!
Finally, Ren Zhongyi chopped down the mobilization order: "We must make the ice lanterns will be a success, so that the people do not cat winter, the masses of energy drummed up, so that Harbin's winter is no longer lonely!"
Baidu Encyclopedia - Ice Lantern Festival
Baidu Encyclopedia - Harbin Ice Lantern Festival