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Harbin Ice Festival Facts

The Harbin Ice Festival is one of the world's four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan's Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada's Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway's Ski Festival. The below is a list of facts about the festival for your information.Official Name in China: The official name of Harbin Ice Festival in China is China•Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival (Chinese characters: 中国哈尔滨国际冰雪节). Translated Name in Wikipedia: Harbin...

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2025 Harbin Ice Festival Dates

Harbin will host the 41st International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in 2025. Its official opening date is scheduled on January 5, 2025. If weather permits, exhibitions of ice lanterns, ice/snow sculptures are dotted across multiple locations from December 10, 2024 to early March of 2025. The biggest – and priciest to attend – is the 26th Harbin Ice and Snow World, which features the flashiest and most neck-craning sculptures, ice castles, ice slides, giant ferris wheel...

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Origin and History of Harbin Ice Festival

Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, commonly Harbin Ice Festival, was called and originated from local Harbiner traditional ice lantern show garden party (aka ice lantern fair) in winter. Its history can be dated back to last century. The festival first started in 1963 as a small event to showcase local ice sculpting talent in Zhaolin Park. From 1978 to 1982, many tourists flocked to Harbin to see the ice lanterns, more and more local people began to enjo...

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Harbin Ice Festival 2022

The 2022 Harbin Ice Festival is officially called the 38th Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. The opening ceremony of the Harbin Ice Festival 2022 will take place on January 5, 2022. The theme parks and main events of the festival will include the 23rd Harbin Ice and Snow World, the 34th Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo, the 59th Ice Lantern Fair at Zhaolin Park, the 2nd Ice Lantern Show at Rongchuang Amusement Park, the 4th Harbin Songhua...

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Harbin Ice Festival 2024 Dates

Harbin will host the 40th International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in 2024. Its official opening date is scheduled on January 5, 2024. From December 20, 2023 to early March of 2024, exhibitions of ice and snow sculptures, kept pristine by subzero temperatures, are dotted across multiple locations. The biggest – and priciest to attend – is the 25th Harbin Ice and Snow World, which  features the flashiest and most neck-craning sculptures, ice castles, ice slides, giant...

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Songhua River

The Songhua River (Chinese pinyin: Sōnghuā Jiāng) is the largest tributary of the Heilong River. It ranks the fifth longest river in China, runs about 1,897 kilometers long and covers a drainage area of 545,600 square kilometers. The source of the river is a crater lake called Heavenly Lake with an elevation of 2,189 meters at the top of the Changbai Mountain, which borders North Korea in China’s Jilin Province. The water falls down from the Heavenly Lake and forms a waterfal...

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Harbin Fact Sheet

Harbin is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, as well as the tenth most populated city in China. Located at 125° 42 - 130°10' East longitude and 44 °04 ' - 46 °40' North latitude, the city serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural and communications hub in Northeast China. Harbin is originally a Manchu word meaning "a place for drying fishing nets." It is known for its bitterly cold winters and is often called...

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Harbin International Beer Festival

Harbin, the first Chinese city to brew beer, boasts a beer culture of more than 100 years, has the most profound beer culture in China. It also ranks among the cities with the highest average per capita beer consumption in the world. Harbin City first launched the annual international beer festival in 2002. Since then, the festival is annually celebrated in the venue of the Harbin Ice and Snow World in July. During the festival, many top beer manufacturers from Germany, the...

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