"Create slippery snow dolls,
Don't go home when the ice cart slips,
Sticky beans wrapped in white sand,
White flowers bloom in the sauerkraut jar..."
"Auspicious snow heralds a good year", ice and snow can best create "a sense of atmosphere for the New Year", and Harbin has a unique taste of ice and snow for the New Year.
The seasonality here is particularly obvious. In winter, it is full of ice and snow, decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the sense of New Year's ceremony is relaxed and full.
Harbin Ice and Snow World Fireworks Show
Outside the house, watching ice lanterns, making snowmen, catching big fairs, winter fishing, every scene is full of joy and excitement; inside the house, killing new year pigs, setting up iron pots, grilling heating, eating frozen pears, every scene is warm And, booming.
Tourists watch ice lanterns in the Ice and Snow World.
Photo by Sun Hanlun
The temperature difference between the home and the outside is tens of degrees, opening a door to travel through two seasons, so the taste of "going home for the New Year" is strong.
This is the exquisite, vigorous, and delicious ice and snow New Year's flavor...
The Year of Ice and Snow: What Is a 60-year-old Ice Lantern Like?
When I came to Harbin, I found Bing Deng's hometown.
In 1963, the Chinese ice lantern art originated in Harbin, and by 2023 it has been "stored" for 60 years.
Every winter, when the lights are on to welcome guests, it feels like a 60-year-old daughter's red pot, which is most suitable for the ice and snow year.
Harbin Ice and Snow World
The streets all over the city and the ice lanterns that can be seen everywhere are the nostalgia of hometown and the welcoming ceremony.
Linglong Tower, Linglong Tower, Liuli City, the crown of ice and snow, Harbin Ice and Snow World is the most concentrated and grandest ice and snow kingdom.
Tourists from all over the world are keen to come here for New Year's Eve. Watching fireworks, ringing the clock of the century, and tying red silk under the blessing tree... are all unique ways of celebrating the New Year in Ice City.
Overseas students strike the bell of the century in Harbin Ice and Snow World
Sending off the tiger and welcoming the rabbit, all kinds of rabbits appear all over China, and the rabbits in Harbin are made of snow.
This is also the birthplace of Chinese snow sculpture art. There are big snow rabbits pulling radishes at the Sun Island Snow Expo, and big snow rabbits sending blessings on Central Street. They "jump and jump" to welcome the new year with people.
"Snow Nini" on Central Street, Harbin
Ice and Snow Fun: Is it true that everyone has a snowman?
"Everyone in Harbin has a snowman", this ridicule comes from the pride of the northerners and the yearning of the southerners.
There is plenty of snow, and you can use local materials to build a snowman.
At the end of the year, the big snowman put on a red hat and a red scarf, and even his nose turned red from the cold.
Photo courtesy of Harbin Cultural Tourism
Playing snowball fights with the left hand, pumping ice cubes with the right hand, flying around and skating... the ice and snow New Year fun of the old Harbin people is so simple and happy.
When I was young, I zoomed in on the ground red, Er Tijiao, and Changtian monkey in the heavy snow, and red streaks exploded on the thick white snow.
The "Snowman Guard of Honor" at the Harbin Sun Island Snow Expo.
Photo courtesy of Harbin Sun Island Snow Expo
People in Harbin live along the river, and the casual date of "go, go to the riverside" evolves into a centuries-old ice play on the river in winter.
Nowadays, the way of playing ice and snow is more fashionable, snow drifting, ice bumper cars, ice and snow hovercraft, Harbin Songhua River Ice and Snow Carnival is a playground for older children to lead children to enjoy the fun of ice and snow.
Harbin Songhua River Ice and Snow Carnival: Bumper cars on ice.
Photo courtesy of Harbin Songhua River Ice and Snow Carnival
Ice and Snow New Year Customs: Braised New Year’s Pig, Winter Fishing Picture for a Lucky Head
"Kids, don't cry, kill the pig when the twelfth lunar month enters." In Northeast China, "I'll kill the pig for you" is a sincerity to welcome distinguished guests and celebrate the New Year.
Blood sausage, braised elbows, sauced trotters, jelly pork skin, fat sausages, deep-fried oil... The New Year’s Pig feast on the big heated kang is hot and satisfying.
Heilongjiang Muling's pig-killing dishes and pork knuckles.
Photo by Liu Tongfeng
On the frozen rivers and lakes thousands of miles away, the fish set off with their heads shouting.
It is auspicious to cast a net and catch fish every year, and pray for the vision of good weather.
Winter Catch inherits the fishing and hunting culture of northern China, and also reserves the best ingredients for the Spring Festival table.
Harbin Songhua River winter catch.
Photo courtesy of Harbin Cultural Tourism
In the Heilongjiang Xuexiang Scenic Area, which is more than 300 kilometers away from Harbin, 3,000 red lanterns are set against the white snow.
Wearing cotton-padded jackets, pasting window grilles, making dumplings, performing Yangko, and lighting bonfires, the ice and snow New Year customs in the villages and villages are more authentic.
It is located in the Xuexiang Scenic Area of Longjiang Forest Industry Dalin Shuangfeng Forest Farm.
Photo by Sun Tingyi
Ice and snow New Year's goods: what's in the natural big refrigerator
Outside the house at a temperature of more than 20 degrees Celsius below zero, people went to the market in big cotton jackets and cotton trousers.
New Year's goods, whether they are bought, sold or stored, can be completed in the "natural large refrigerator".
Frozen persimmons, frozen dumplings, frozen tofu, sticky bean buns, candied haws, chicken, duck, fish, river seafood... the hard frozen goods are full of soft New Year flavor.
Frozen goods sold outdoors in Heilongjiang.
Photo by Wang Lin
In the room at more than 20 degrees Celsius above zero, the frozen pears melted into an ice shell in a small basin.
People rely on the heater to sip cold, sour and sweet pear juice, take a bite of candied haws with a handful of peanuts and sunflower seeds, play a game of poker and play mahjong.
Sugar-coated haws.
Photo by Zhao Donglai
Ice and Snow Festival: There is Errenzhuan and Symphony
Compared with the Spring Festival Gala on TV, the duo in the small theater is more down-to-earth.
"It's New Year's Day in the first month, the first day of the New Year's Day...", men, women and children will hum a few lines of "Little New Year's Greetings", singing every year with a sense of taste.
Longjiang Ice Show.
Photo courtesy of Heilongjiang Provincial Acrobatic Troupe
There are but not only Errenzhuan in Northeast China. Harbin is the only city in Asia that has been awarded the title of "City of Music" by the United Nations. Listening to a symphony in the Harbin New Concert Hall and watching a Longjiang Ice Show in the Harbin Grand Theater are both palace-level openings for the New Year. Way.
Listen to a concert in Harbin, the "City of Music".
Photo courtesy of Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
The taste of the New Year in the ice and snow, taste the bitterness of ice, the sweetness of snow, the scalding of fire, and the splendor of light. The Northeast Old Railway calls you to go home for the New Year!
Children are waiting to eat dumplings in Xuexiang.
Photo by Sun Tingyi
"Going home for the New Year" is the most heart-warming "closing word" for Chinese people who have been busy for a year.
There are thousands of flavors in the mountains and rivers. If you taste them carefully, the taste of the New Year is the taste of home.
Tourists hold blessing characters in Xuexiang.
Photo by Sun Tingyi
(China News Agency WeChat public account Wang Lin)