What are the famous traditional folk festivals in Harbin?

Abstract: The most distinctive festival activity in Harbin is the winter ice and snow festival. The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is rich in entertainment activities, including thrilling ice sledges, ice sails gliding on the ice, skating in an uninhabited land, spinning ice monkeys - ice tops, and winter swimming that challenges nature. It does not allow people to experience the "hot feeling" that belongs to the ice and snow in Harbin. In addition, there are the Harbin Beer Festival held in July of the Gregorian calendar, the annual national music event "Harbin Summer Festival", the Harbin Wuhua Mountain Autumn Appreciation Festival held in September of the Gregorian calendar, and the Harbin Beer Festival held on the eighth and eighteenth days of April every year. Festival activities such as the Harbin Bliss Temple Fair on February 8th make people feel the blazing warmth in the "Ice City" of Harbin. 1. Large-scale special festivals in Harbin

1. Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival

The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is held from December to January of the following year. It is the first organization in my country to focus on ice and snow. regional festivals. The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival holds a large-scale winter swimming competition every year. At that time, visitors can not only see the beautiful scenery of ice lanterns and snow sculptures, but also enjoy the ice and snow literary evening and participate in a variety of ice and snow entertainment projects.

Time: December to January of the following year

Location: Harbin, the specific location varies every year

2. Harbin Mulan Ice Rolling Festival

The Ice Rolling Festival is a local folk custom with a long history. On the evening of the Lantern Festival, locals light candles and place them on the river to form various shapes. Men, women and children of all ages go to roll on the frozen river. It is said that rolling away troubles, rolling away disasters, and bringing good luck. happiness. This custom originates from an ancient legend. A long time ago, the daughter of the Songhua River God Unicorn fell in love with a young man who fished here and got married and lived a happy and peaceful life. This matter was discovered by the one-horned dragon. On the first day of the new year, the one-horned dragon opened the river with his horn, captured the dragon girl, and wanted to punish the young man and the villagers with the plague. The dragon girl entrusted her dream to her sweetheart and told the young man to go to the ice and roll on the ice on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. If he rolled nine times on the left and nine times on the right, he could avoid the plague. So on the night of the Lantern Festival, the whole village, old and young, went to roll on the ice, and they really escaped the disaster. The villagers were afraid of the unicorn dragon's revenge, so every year on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, they would roll on the ice, gradually forming a unique folk custom that continues to this day.

Time: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Location: Mulan County, Harbin

3. Harbin Concert

China·Harbin Summer Concert , referred to as "Hasha Festival", is a national-level music event held every two years and lasts for 10 days. The Harbin Summer Concert is an original creation of Harbin people, with a grand scale and a gathering of stars. It has now become the cradle of music artists and one of the "three major concerts" in China, thus establishing Harbin's status as a famous music city.

Time: August 6th to 15th of the lunar calendar

Location: Harbin City, the specific location changes every year

4. Harbin Beer Festival

Harbin is the place where the first barrel of beer is produced in China and has the most profound beer culture in China; the indulgent drinking style of Harbin people eclipses the Bavarians at the Munich Oktoberfest in Germany; the charming ice city beauties and Natasha from Russia became a dazzling sight at the Oktoberfest. The Harbin International Beer Festival has attracted worldwide attention because of its classic and modern, passionate and romantic.

Time: July every year

Location: Ice and Snow World

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Although it is a traditional Chinese festival, The passion in the bones of Bingcheng people turned it into a national carnival. Starting from the afternoon of the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, tens of thousands of citizens converged on Central Street and other streets along the river, rushing towards the Songhua River like a tide. People with flowers in their hair, masks on their faces, and Dragon Boat Festival souvenirs in their hands, crowded and laughed in the streets. Many people set up tents on the banks of the Songhua River and caroused all night until the morning light of the Dragon Boat Festival came. After watching the dragon boat races on the Songhua River, people would go home one after another holding mugwort in their hands.

Time: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Location: Central Street (main location)

6. Harbin Wuhuashan Autumn Appreciation Festival

Harbin Wuhua Mountain Autumn Appreciation Festival, with the main theme of "Celebrating Harvest" and "Autumn Appreciation", returns to nature and takes an autumn tour to Wuhua Mountain. It is held in late September every year. During the event, special activities such as the Red Leaf Festival, Flower Appreciation Festival, Mountaineering Festival, and Picking Festival will be carried out based on the rich mountain forests, rivers, planting and breeding bases and other tourism resources in various districts and counties (cities). Organize citizens and tourists to carry out healthy mountaineering tours, advocate the concept of healthy living, get close to nature, return to nature, and enjoy the fun of mountains and wilderness. Popular attractions for autumn tours in Wuhua Mountain in Harbin include Jinlong Mountain, Xianglu Mountain, Phoenix Mountain, Longfeng Mountain, Yabuli, Jiguan Mountain, Huazi Mountain, Pingshan Scenic Area, etc.

Time: Held in late September every year

Location: Dover Yingjie Scenic Area, Bin County

7. Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival

The Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival has been successfully held for 8 times since its inception in 2012. China_Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival is an important tourism festival in Harbin. The Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival mainly relies on wetland scenic spots such as Sun Island, Hulan Estuary Wetland Park, Volga Manor Wetland, Jinhe Bay, Baiyupao, and Binjiang Wetland, and launches 16 quality wetland tourism routes in 3 combinations.

During the event, hiking tours of wetlands, wetland ecological tours, free wetland tours for citizens, wetland weddings, wetland scenery photography competitions, wetland self-driving tours, summer camping, sailing performances, night tours on the Songhua River and other activities will be carried out. Let citizens and tourists fully experience the magnificence, warmth and romance of Songjiang Wetland.

Time: June 5 to June 20 every year

Location: Harbin Songhua River Wetland

8. Harbin Tulip Viewing Festival

< p>Every May to June, when 32 varieties and hundreds of thousands of tulips bloom in the Harbin Forest Botanical Garden, the park will hold a tulip viewing festival, allowing everyone to enjoy tulips of different colors together. The tulip garden covers an area of ??4 hectares. It mainly introduces and cultivates tulips, daffodils and hyacinths, the famous Dutch flowers. It also plants early spring flowers and trees such as eucalyptus and rhododendron. At present, dozens of tulip varieties and nearly hundreds of thousands of tulips have been introduced and planted. You can enjoy tulips of different colors at the same time in the garden, which is also known as a beautiful scenery in the botanical garden. The unique windmills make the place unique and exotic, and the blooming tulips are so precious and brilliant that they are so beautiful that it makes people unable to open their eyes, and they are so perfect that they take your breath away.

Time: mid-May to June

Venue: Harbin Forest Botanical Garden

9. Heilongjiang International Ski Festival

Content: The first Ski Festival was founded on December 5, 1998. It was sponsored by the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province and the People's Government of Harbin Municipality, and organized by the Heilongjiang Provincial Tourism Bureau, Harbin Municipal Tourism Bureau and Yabuli Ski Center. The opening ceremony was held at the Yabuli Ski Center. It is the first tourism festival in China with skiing as its content. Guest invitations are mainly from the news media. The first ski festival created three firsts, namely China's first international ski festival, the first professional ski tourism committee, and the first ski club. The Ski Festival echoes the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, implements ice and snow linkage, and highlights Heilongjiang ski tourism, initially establishing the image of Heilongjiang as a ski tourist resort in China.

Time: Starting around December every year

Location: Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

10. Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition

Harbin, China The International Ice Sculpture Competition, one of the three major ice sculpture competitions in the world, is held in the world's largest outdoor ice and snow theme park - Harbin Ice and Snow World. Ice sculpture artists from various countries carefully carved 387 exquisite ice sculptures, and conveyed emotions through ice sculpture, a solid form of artistic expression. Not only Harbin people like and love ice, domestic and foreign tourists also like to watch the process of making ice sculptures. It is like a piece of art handed down from generation to generation. It is not only loved by people after it is formed, but its production process is also mysterious. of unique charm.

Time: January 6 every year

Location: Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

11. China-Russia Expo

Second Session The China-Russia Expo (the 26th Kazakhstan Fair) is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. It is currently the only expo in my country that is unique to other countries. A national-level institutional exhibition. With the active promotion of the Chinese and Russian governments, the China-Russia Expo has become an important platform for the two countries to jointly build the "Belt and Road" and comprehensively deepen their strategic partnership of coordination. The theme of the exhibition is "Connection and Cooperation - New Opportunities in the Silk Road Economic Belt". The total exhibition area of ??the main venue of the expo is 86,000 square meters. Nearly 10,000 overseas merchants from 103 countries and regions on five continents of the world participated in the exhibition. *** signed The cumulative value of various foreign trade, foreign investment, foreign economic and other foreign-related contracts was US$2.468 billion. 126 domestic economic and technological cooperation projects were signed, with a total contract value of 35.8 billion yuan. During the expo, government departments and institutions of China and Russia jointly held 13 special business activities, covering local cooperation, the Far East Leapfrog Development Zone, Vladivostok Free Port, mechanical and electrical, forestry, cross-border e-commerce, Mining, customs, technical specifications, tourism, youth, engineering technology, think tanks and other fields.

12. Harbin World Agricultural Expo

Sponsored by the municipal government, hosted by Koelnmesse China Co., Ltd., Huahong Group, and Harbin Bingcheng Exhibition Co., Ltd., it is held regularly in our city every year . The 2015 Agricultural Expo, with the theme of "Green Food - New Consumption, New Economy", was hosted by the Heilongjiang Provincial Government and the Harbin Municipal Government. It integrated the "Harbin World Agricultural Expo", "Heilongjiang Golden Autumn Grain Trade Cooperation Fair", " China Heilongjiang Beidahuang International Agricultural Machinery Expo" and other exhibition resources. The expo is divided into 12 exhibition areas including green organic food, technological support, "Internet + Agriculture", livestock products, financial services, time-honored food, logistics and supply chain, brand channel construction, famous and high-quality food from other provinces, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, foreign fine food, and agricultural machinery. , 1,058 exhibitors. During the exhibition, the "Second China Modern Food Industry Development Strategy Summit and 2015 Heilongjiang Green Organic Food International Forum", "2015 Heilongjiang Golden Autumn Grain Trade Cooperation Conference", "Heilongjiang Green Organic Food Industry Development Potential Promotion Conference", "China Korean Kimchi Culture Festival" and other series of activities.

13. Harbin International Equipment Manufacturing Expo

The Harbin "Manufacturing Expo" has been successfully held for 14 times, with more than 20 participants from Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea, and Japan. 4,000 well-known companies from countries and regions including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, and more than 10 domestic provinces and cities participated in the exhibition, demonstrating the professionalism and internationalization of the Expo; it has received a total of more than 270,000 domestic and foreign professional visitors. The cumulative transaction volume of exhibition agreements and contracts reached 26 billion yuan, which reflected the role of the "Manufacturing Expo" as an equipment manufacturing trade platform and attracted the attention of representatives from all walks of life participating in the exhibition and merchants at home and abroad. In 2015, there were more than 400 exhibitors at the "Manufacturing Expo", with nearly 10,000 products in 10 categories on display. The company's products cover more than 10 countries and regions and more than 10 domestic provinces and cities. Involving domestic and foreign 3D printing, industrial robots and high-end manufacturing intelligent equipment, Internet +, scientific and technological innovation achievements of universities, energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy technology, new materials, new energy automobile companies, etc.

14. Harbin International Auto Show

Co-organized by the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government, Harbin Municipal People's Government, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, China Society of Automotive Engineers and Harbin Great Wall International Exhibition Co., Ltd. *** The international industry exhibition hosted by the company is held regularly every year. After seventeen years of development, the Harbin International Auto Show has become "one of the top ten auto shows in the country" and ranked among the "Top 50 Nationally Famous Exhibitions". The 2015 "Harbin International Auto Show" adheres to the positioning of "internationalization, specialization, branding, and distinctiveness", with the theme of "green, environmental protection, technology, and fashion", with the starting point of activating the automobile market, and to serve automobile manufacturers and stimulate With the purpose of domestic demand, the purpose of spreading automobile culture and satisfying consumers' car purchase needs, it mainly displays various types of automobiles, parts, automobile supplies, and automobile-related products. It integrates trade negotiations, technical exchanges and cultural activities, and serves as an international and domestic exhibition. Enterprises open up new areas of cooperation and build platforms for cooperation and exchanges. The exhibition area reached 125,000 square meters, and the scale of the exhibition reached a record high. There were 462 automobile manufacturers, parts companies and automobile aftermarket manufacturers from 12 countries and regions participating in the exhibition, and 95 complete vehicle brands participated in the exhibition. There are 851 vehicles on display, bringing together top world-famous cars and all new domestically produced cars.

15. Harbin International Fashion Week

Sponsored by the Harbin Municipal People's Government, China Fashion Association, and China Fashion Designers Association. With the characteristics of "cutting-edge fashion", the "321" development strategy has been established, that is, building three major platforms, a growth platform for emerging designers, a fashion industry innovation platform, and a citizen fashion experience interactive platform; and creating two channels, namely, the economic and trade exchange channel with Russia. Utilize China's cutting-edge fashion release base to provide access to the inward fashion industry; launch a big show, build a 365-day uninterrupted show, create a fashion week that never ends, and revive Harbin's status as a fashionable and romantic city. The 2015 Harbin International Fashion Week is positioned as "positioning cutting-edge, with four distinct seasons, focusing on winter and autumn, and 45° north latitude". It held 33 first shows, which lasted for 5 days. The level of participating designers and the scale of the shows ranked first among domestic and foreign fashion weeks. Second to none. More than 80 Chinese and foreign fashion designers from 20 countries and more than 100 domestic and foreign model rookies will hold dozens of fashion debuts at Xicheng Red Square Art Museum, Red Expo Exhibition Shopping Plaza and other places. The Red Square Art Museum will also be held The first invitational exhibition of Qingxuan Contemporary Art Salon, the International Forum on Fashion Meets Art, the China Autumn and Winter Clothing Alliance Forum and the founding ceremony of the International Designer Workstation, the 2016 China Emerging Design Awards and many other events.

16. Harbin Coldland Expo

Sponsored by the Harbin Municipal Government and jointly organized by the Harbin Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Harbin Great Wall International Exhibition Co., Ltd., it is scheduled to be held around January every year at the Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Sports Center. Held in the central exhibition hall. As a foreign cooperation and exchange platform carefully cultivated by Harbin City, the Cold Expo has highlighted the unique characteristics of cold cities at 45° north latitude since its transformation and establishment in 2013, integrating the advantages of the Ice and Snow Festival, developing the city's "cold economy", and connecting cold city cities and With the aim of achieving the development results of countries and regions along the “Belt and Road Initiative”, based on the transformation of the original “Iceland Fair”, it has initially achieved upgrading in scale, specialization and branding, and was rated as the first “most innovative” in the country. A large-scale themed exhibition with characteristics of cold regions. The 2015 Cold Expo was themed "Cold Region Economy Connects New Opportunities with the Silk Road Belt". The total exhibition area reached 36,000 square meters (the maximum indoor capacity of the venue), with more than 800 exhibiting companies. More than 80,000 visitors attended the exhibition. 5 seminars, exchanges and docking activities were held, and 32 industrial cooperation projects were signed with the Ice and Snow Festival. The investment amount was 43.55 billion yuan in domestic investment and 550 million yuan in foreign investment, breaking the historical record.

17. Buddha Bathing Festival, also known as Buddha’s Birthday, Buddha’s Birthday, etc., falls on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year and is the birthday of Buddha Sakyamuni. According to legend, when the Buddha was born, rain fell from the sky to bathe the Buddha's body. Therefore, in order to commemorate the birth of the Buddha, Buddhism holds a grand Buddha Bathing Ceremony on that day. Through religious rituals such as chanting sutras and burning incense, the Buddha statue is bathed with perfume. It is said that on this day, if you go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha, you can pray for the Buddha's blessings, which will bring you good luck, get rid of illness and avoid disasters. Harbin holds a Buddha bathing ceremony every year from 2 to 3 a.m. on the eighth day of April. About 3,000-5,000 Buddhist believers participate in the event in the Kek Lok Temple. The gate of Kek Lok Temple is open day and night from the seventh to the eighth day of April. On that day, about 30,000 people enter the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha.

In addition, the 18th and 28th of the lunar calendar are the Christmas birthdays of Taoist gods. Due to the lack of Taoist temples in our city and the saying that "Buddhism and Taoism are not separated", it is customary for people in our city to still burn incense and worship Buddha at Jile Temple on these two days. . About 15,000 people entered the temple on April 18th, and more than 10,000 people entered the temple on April 28th. The annual "Buddha Bathing Festival" lasts for four days, namely the seventh night of the fourth lunar month, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the eighteenth day of the fourth lunar month, and the twenty-eighth day of the fourth lunar month.

Time: The seventh night of the fourth lunar month, the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the eighteenth day of the fourth lunar month, the twenty-eighth day of the fourth lunar month

Address: Jile Temple, Harbin City, Heilongjiang

2. Harbin Ice and Snow Sports

1. Skiing

Harbin has the largest ski resort in Asia - Yabuli Ski Resort, Erlongshan Ski Resort, Window of Europe and Asia There are dozens of large-scale ski resorts with complete equipment and scale, including ski resorts, which are a paradise for ski enthusiasts.

2. Skating

The cold winter gives Harbin a natural advantage for skating. As long as the open space is filled with water, it will freeze into a solid ice rink the next morning. Ice rinks and ice hockey halls can be found everywhere in Harbin. This is an exciting sport that roller skating people cannot experience. The feeling of riding skates on the ice is definitely unforgettable.

3. Ice sledge

Playing with an ice sledge is similar to sliding on a slide. The difference is that the sliding friction and speed of the ice sledge on the ice are smaller. There are two ways to play the ice sledge. If the sledge is on a steep slope, there is no need to run up. You can hit while sitting or lying down. If you are on a flat ice track, you must first hold the sledge with both hands to run, then put the sledge against your chest and lie forward on it. On the ice road, the sledge leads people to slide forward, just like a boat on the water making poles, very cool and unrestrained. There are also dog-pulled ice sledges and horse-drawn sledges, which can be played on Sun Island in winter.

4. Ice sailing

Is a unique sport in Heilongjiang. It is very similar to sailing, except that the sports venue is moved to the ice, and it travels at high speed and is exciting. , when you go to Harbin, you must experience the joy of sailing on the Songhua River.

5. Horse-drawn sledge

Horse-drawn sledge is safe, comfortable, fun and exciting, and the speed can be controlled. Sitting on the horse-drawn sledge is speeding in the snowy field, like a warrior in the ice field, in the snowy field. The magic weapon.

6. Winter Swimming

One of the bravest sports activities in Harbin in winter is winter swimming. It is really shocking for brave people to swim in the bitterly cold Songhua River in the middle of winter. They carved out an ice-trough swimming pool tens of meters long and several meters wide on the main channel of the Songhua River, which is covered with ice about one meter thick. They fought in it wearing swimsuits, and gained the joy of conquering nature and a strong body. Every year during the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, large-scale winter swimming competitions are held, and the scene is both lively and spectacular. In recent years, domestic swimmers from brother provinces and cities and foreign swimming enthusiasts have also come here after hearing the news, hoping to show off their skills in the icy water of the Songhua River.

7. Ice Gá

Ice Gá is also called ice monkey and ice top. It is a top-like toy made of wood or iron. It stands upside down on the ice and uses a Beating it with a whip makes it roll around and buzz, which is very interesting. It is a folk ice game in Harbin. Foreign tourists, especially children, must try it for themselves. The spinning top spinning on the ice will definitely bring you incomparable happiness during your trip.