The annual Ice and Snow Festival starts on January 5th, with the opening ceremony on January 4th
Time of Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
Time of Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival : January 5, 2013
The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival falls on January 5 of each year in the Gregorian calendar. It is a grand festival for Harbin people and the first international festival in the history of our country that features ice and snow activities. It is also one of the four major ice and snow festivals in the world.
The origin of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
In the early 1980s, Harbin ice lanterns had become famous all over the world and attracted thousands of spectators. Mass skating, ice sledding, ice sailing and other ice lanterns Sports and winter swimming also add vitality to Harbin’s winter. Ice and snow cultural activities have attracted the attention of some departments. When the relevant comrades from the Propaganda Department of the Harbin Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China received the compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who came to Harbin to watch the ice lanterns, they found that they not only loved Harbin’s ice lanterns, but also loved Harbin’s white snow. From this, the idea of ??holding the "Harbin Winter" Ice and Snow Festival was born, and a proposal was made to the Municipal Party Committee in October 1983. After more than a year of unremitting efforts, it was approved by the main leaders of the Provincial Party Committee and on January 5, 1985. On the same day, a grand opening ceremony was held outside the south gate of Zhaolin Park, where the Ice Lantern Garden Party is located, and it was announced that the one-month Harbin Ice and Snow Festival will be held every year from January 5th.
Overview of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is a festival unique to Harbin people with rich content and diverse forms. Now it has become a showcase of Harbin’s socio-economic development level and people’s spirit at home and abroad. An important window into the face. In order to highlight the influence of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, it was promoted to China Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at the 17th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in 2001.
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is the longest-running ice and snow festival in the world. It only has an opening ceremony on January 5 each year and no closing ceremony. It was originally scheduled to last for one month. In fact, the festival was held at the end of the previous year. The activities have already started and will last until the end of the ice and snow activities at the end of February. The period includes four important festivals: New Year, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, and Ski Festival. It can be said that there are festivals within festivals, festivals within festivals, and happiness is added to happiness. Much joy.
The influence of the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is as famous as the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, the Quebec Winter Carnival in Canada, the Ottawa Winter Fun Festival and the Snow Festival in Oslo, Norway. One of the few winter festivals in the world with the most content and atmosphere. Every winter festival, the streets and squares of Harbin are decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and men, women, old and young are beaming with joy. Ice and snow art, ice and snow sports, ice and snow food, ice and snow economy and trade, ice and snow tourism, ice and snow exhibitions and other activities are carried out vividly in the silver world. This famous city in northern China In an instant, it turned into a huge ice and snow stage.
The annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, based on the principle of "economic theme, international goal, commercial operation, mass activities", integrates ice lantern garden party, large-scale fireworks show, ice wedding, photography competition, The Book Expo, Economic and Technical Cooperation Fair, Economic Association Information Release Fair, Materials Trading Conference, and Patented Technology and New Products Fair have attracted more than one million visitors, and the economic and trade fair's turnover has increased year by year. It is not only a tourist hotspot for Chinese and foreign tourists, but also a bridge and link for domestic and foreign merchants to carry out economic and trade cooperation and conduct friendly exchanges.