When does Harbin’s annual Ice Lantern Festival start and end?

Harbin Ice Lantern Festival The annual Ice Lantern Festival starts on January 5 and lasts until the end of February. There is no charge for the Harbin Ice Lantern Festival.

The Harbin Ice Lantern Garden Fair is the birthplace of Chinese ice lantern art and is listed as one of the 35 "wonderful and beautiful" tourist attractions in the country by the National Tourism Administration. The Harbin Ice Lantern Garden Party starts on January 5th every year and lasts until the end of February.

Since 1985, at the annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival held during the Ice Lantern Garden Party, tourists can not only participate in the Ice Lantern Garden Party and watch various ice sculpture arts, but also participate in sports on the Songhua River Ice World Activities include ice sailing, ice monkey hunting, ice skating, watching winter swimming competitions and ice weddings, and participating in the Ice and Snow Festival Gala and other activities.

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The background of the Harbin Ice Lantern Garden Party:

On February 1, 1963, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Ren Zhongyi and Mayor Lu Qien came to Xiangfang District During the inspection work, we inspected a newly established free market (i.e. farmers’ market). When walking out of the free market, Ren Zhongyi suddenly found an old lady squatting on the roadside with an earthen ice lamp in front of her.

Ren Zhongyi returned home and called Lu Qien, who lived next door, and Lin Xiaoxiao, secretary of the nearby Municipal Party Committee Secretariat, to come over to conduct the ice lantern experiment. On February 3, Ren Zhongyi convened Zhang Ping, deputy mayor in charge, Liu Zuotian, deputy director of the Municipal Construction Bureau and other relevant leaders at his home to hold an informal small on-site work meeting.

Ren Zhongyi put forward a bold idea that he discussed with Lu Qien, Lin Xiaoxiao and others: "Today is the tenth day of the first lunar month, and it won't be until the Lantern Festival in five days. The year is not over yet. There is a flower show in Guangzhou, and New Year's Eve There are flower markets and Lantern Festival lanterns all over the south. We don’t have flower markets or lanterns in Harbin. We can hold an ice lantern show in Zhaolin Park on the 15th day of the first lunar month, called the Ice Lantern Garden Party. What do you think?”

Ren Zhongyi? Seeing that the cadres were looking troubled, he told in detail what he had seen and heard in Guangzhou Cultural Park, as well as what he and Lu Qien had seen the old lady making "poor stick lanterns" in Xiangfang District, and asked the cadres present to watch the courtyard. He, Lu Qien, Lin Xiaoxiao and the children made a long row of hollow ice lampshades with candles, and also explained in detail the method of freezing ice lamps.

Finally, Ren Zhongyizhan issued a mobilization order: "We must make the Ice Lantern Garden Party a success, so that the people will not miss the winter, and encourage the masses to make Harbin's winter no longer lonely!"

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