What festival is the Ice and Snow Festival? What month is it now?

Guide: In the ice and snow, we can see all kinds of snowmen made of snow. If we go to colder places in the north, you can also see all kinds of ice sculptures, and there is such a festival in China that you can enjoy the beauty and fun of winter. This festival is the Ice and Snow Festival. So, when is the Ice and Snow Festival? When does the Ice and Snow Festival begin? If you want to know what the ice and snow festival is, just look at my introduction.

What festival is the Ice and Snow Festival?

The most sought after ice and snow festival in China is Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which is the first local festival based on ice and snow in China. With the increasing recognition of this activity, a number of representative ice and snow festivals have sprung up in various places, such as Changchun Vasa Ice and Snow Festival, Window of the World Ice and Snow Festival, Jilin International Rime Ice and Snow Festival, Inner Mongolia Manzhouli Ice and Snow Festival, Aershan International Ice and Snow Festival, Bird's Nest Happy Ice and Snow Season, Beijing Happy Water Cube Ice and Snow Carnival and so on.

When is the Ice and Snow Festival?

Harbin Ice and Snow Festival lasts for one month every year in Gregorian calendar 1.5. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is a grand festival for Harbin people. It is also the first international festival with ice and snow activities in the history of China and one of the four major ice and snow festivals in the world. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is a unique festival for Harbin people. Rich in content and diverse in forms. It has become an important window to show Harbin's social and economic development level and people's mental outlook at home and abroad.

The longest ice and snow festival

Harbin Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is as famous as Sapporo Ice and Snow Festival in Japan, Quebec Winter Carnival in Canada and Ottawa Winter Music Festival. It is one of the few winter festivals with the richest content and the warmest atmosphere in the world. Every winter, the streets and squares in Harbin are decorated with lights, and men, women and children are beaming. Ice and snow art, ice and snow sports, ice and snow diet, ice and snow trade, ice and snow tourism, ice and snow exhibition and other activities are carried out in a silvery white world, and this famous city in northern China suddenly becomes a huge ice and snow stage without a shed.

The birth of the ice and snow festival

19 in the early 1980 s, Harbin ice lanterns were famous all over the world, and tourists were like clouds. Mass skating, sledding, ice sailing and other ice sports and winter swimming have also added vitality to Harbin's winter. Ice and snow cultural activities have attracted the attention of some departments. During the reception of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan who came to Harbin to watch the ice lanterns, the relevant comrades of the Propaganda Department of Harbin Municipal Committee found that they not only loved the ice lanterns in Harbin, but also loved the snow in Harbin, and thus came up with the idea of holding the "Winter in Harbin" ice and snow festival, and put forward a proposal to the Municipal Committee on June 5438+0983+00, which was approved by the main leaders of the provincial party committee after more than a year of unremitting efforts. 1June 5438+1October 5, 1985 held a grand opening ceremony outside the south gate of Zhao Lin Park, where the ice lantern garden party was held, and announced that Harbin Ice and Snow Festival would be held for one month every year from June 5438+1October 5.

During the first Ice and Snow Festival, some original ice and snow activities such as Zhao Lin Park Lantern Festival (11th), mass ice sculpture competition (4th), international ice sculpture performance (2nd), and ice sail riding, sledding, sledding and winter swimming performance in Jiang Shang Ice and Snow Sports Park were all promoted. In addition, some new activities have been added, such as the first group wedding on ice, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Jiamusi and so on. Provincial and municipal news organizations also held an ice and snow pen meeting, an ice and snow photography contest and an ice and snow essay contest.

Harvest of achievements

Although the first ice and snow festival was hastily prepared, it caused strong repercussions at home and abroad. In a month, it received more than 2 million domestic and foreign tourists, including 6,543,800 tourists from 24 countries and Hong Kong and Macao, up 60% over the same period of last year, and the foreign exchange income from tourism increased by 84.5% over the previous year.

The first fair of scientific and technological achievements and products of the Ice and Snow Festival attracted nearly 10,000 people from more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, with more than 60 transactions/kloc-0, with a transaction amount of nearly 2 million yuan.

More than 500 news articles (pictures) reflecting Harbin Ice and Snow Festival were published by more than 50 news organizations at home and abroad, which greatly improved the popularity of Harbin.

What sports are there at the Ice and Snow Festival?

Hard ice and thick snow provide Harbin with winter sports venues. During the Ice and Snow Festival, in terms of international ice and snow sports competitions, international women's ice hockey invitational tournament, international curling invitational tournament, international Tai Ji Chuan invitational tournament, international winter swimming invitational tournament and winter swimming performance were organized. In terms of sports with local characteristics, there are a series of activities such as "skating for ten thousand people and fitness for ten thousand people" and skating for primary and middle school students, including ice dance performance, speed skating competition and ice hockey competition, and snow football match, national billiards invitational tournament, bowling invitational tournament, "ice lamp cup" basketball invitational tournament, "Hope Cup" chess match and "Seedling Cup" table tennis invitational tournament and performance activities are held. During the winter vacation, there will be fun ice and snow games for primary and secondary school students, as well as ice games for primary and secondary school students, ice games for children, speed skating competitions for primary and secondary school students and ice hockey competitions. At the same time, traditional sports activities such as snowmobiles, sledges, ice sails and moraines will be carried out.

What are the activities of the Ice and Snow Festival?

Ice and Snow Disneyland built on Songhua River-Harbin Ice and Snow World, large-scale ice sculptures exhibited in Stalin Park, and snow sculpture Garden Party held by Sun Island; The grand ice lantern garden party held in Zhao Lin Park is the content of the Ice and Snow Festival. During the Ice and Snow Festival, winter swimming competition, ice hockey competition, snow football competition, alpine skiing invitational tournament, ice sculpture competition, international ice sculpture competition, ice speed skating competition, ice and snow festival poetry meeting, ice and snow photography exhibition, book fair, ice and snow film art festival, ice wedding and other activities will be held.

Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival is the longest ice and snow festival in the world. It has only one opening ceremony every year-1.5, and no closing ceremony. At first, the rule was one month. In fact, the festival started at the end of the year before last and lasted until the end of the ice and snow activities in February, including four important festivals: New Year, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Ski Festival.

The annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, based on the principle of "economization of theme, internationalization of target, commercialization of operation and popularization of activities", integrates an ice lantern garden party, a large fireworks show, an ice wedding, a photo contest, a book fair, an economic and technical cooperation fair, an economic association information conference, a material fair and a patented technology new product fair, attracting more than one million visitors, and the turnover of economic and trade fairs is increasing year by year. It is not only a hot spot for Chinese and foreign tourists to visit, but also a bridge and link for domestic and foreign merchants to carry out economic and trade cooperation and friendly exchanges.