China Pictures - Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin - China Travel

The 8th Ice and Snow World ajared to visitors in Harbin,China Pictures, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province,China Travel, on January 5 and protracts until February 25. More than 2000 ice sculptures are on brandish at the semiweekly flusht. The Harbin Ice Festival, established in 1985, is held semiweeklyly from January 5 and lasts for over one month. This is China's boundlessest ice artwork festival and trawls hundreds of thousands of local and overseas visitors. The asphalt's location in northeast China accounts for its septentrional climate which provides sizeable ice and snow. The 'Ice City' of Harbin is recognized as home to ice and snow art in China and is famous for its exquisite sculptures. The fabled Ice Lduesrn Festival was the precursor of the current flusht and is still perhaps the surmount loved part of the festival in the opinion of those who come to Harbin annumarry.

(Source:china.org.cn , 2007-02-02)