Why is Harbin so cold? Why do you still eat popsicles? Not cold

Harbin people's congress also likes to eat popsicles in winter, which has been popular for more than one hundred years.

Harbin, known as the "Ice City", is the capital city with the northernmost position, the highest latitude and the lowest temperature in China. Affected by Siberian cold air, it is very cold in winter. Chairman Mao's old man put it well: "Thousands of miles are frozen, and Wan Li is snowing" and "white is extraordinarily enchanting". Besides, the cold days are very long. In some years, it snows from Gregorian calendar 10 until May of the following year, and the average outdoor temperature in winter is about MINUS 10 degrees. 193 1 year (20th year of the Republic of China), 1.4℃ The lowest temperature in winter reached -4 1.4℃, setting a historical record in Harbin. Although the situation of "snow over the knee" in winter has rarely appeared since the 1990s due to the warm winter weather for many years (closely related to global warming), Harbin people spend almost half of their time in the world of ice and snow.

In the cold season, if someone leaves some water in their hair when washing their face, and then goes out, it will immediately form ice, hard and hard, like putting enough hair gel on it; Sometimes the breath exhaled in the mouth will form white opaque granular deposits in cold air, which will attach to eyebrows, hair, hats and scarves, and clusters of white brushes will look like white hair. Although ice and snow have brought cold to Harbin, frozen the earth and rivers, but they can't freeze Harbin people's love and pursuit of life, and people have developed a living custom with ice and snow. The climate is cold and severe, and Harbin people raised by the cold in the wild are uninhibited. People in Harbin regard ice and snow as precious resources and wealth endowed by nature. 1963 They founded the Ice Lantern Garden Party, 1985 founded the Ice and Snow Festival. During the annual Ice and Snow Festival in June 5438+ 10, Harbin has become a world of ice, a paradise of snow and an ocean of lights. People enjoy a feast of ice and snow, or participate in skating and skiing, or enjoy the ice lantern snow sculpture, or taste ice cream popsicles.

Eating popsicles in winter has long been one of the characteristics of Harbin people's diet. It is in the coldest days, wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket and eating frozen porcelain popsicles. The colder the weather, the happier you eat. I don't believe that you can always see men and women, old and young, panting in their mouths and eating with relish with popsicles in their hands when you walk on the crowded central street in the cold winter. In particular, girls dressed in fashion completely ignore the image, eating big popsicles in the ice and snow, and no one looks at them, enjoying themselves. Unlike eating popsicles in summer to cool off the heat, eating popsicles in winter is not so refreshing, because it is so tight that you can only savor it bit by bit, but you can taste some flavors that you can't taste or ignore. I will find that there are many changes in sweetness, and the chewed ice will gently stick to every corner of my mouth. I really enjoy that numbness!

It is normal to eat popsicles in the hot sun, but in the ice and snow, people are panting, stamping their feet, eating popsicles and even queuing to buy popsicles! Such a scene really surprised many southerners. In fact, although Harbin is cold in winter, the indoor temperature is relatively high and there is a good heating system. The indoor temperature in institutions, schools, shops and homes is about 20 degrees. It's ice and snow outside, and it's warm as spring inside, which can be called two worlds of ice and fire. Don't wear too much indoor clothes, underwear or shirts, and add sweaters at most. However, Harbin people go out with cotton-padded jackets, shoes, hats, scarves and other armed forces, and often get hot as soon as they leave. Although people in Harbin don't feel so cold in cold weather, they often want to eat a popsicle to cool down, so the consumption of ice cream in winter in Harbin is not less than that in summer. Because of the climate, outdoor is a convenient natural refrigerator. You don't need to be limited by the size of the refrigerator and freezer to buy and sell ice cream. Just put it outside the window and bring it in when you want to eat. The only thing vendors need to do is to find a spacious place to put the ice cream cartons.

Harbin people have eaten too many kinds of popsicles, but they always have a soft spot for Mattel popsicles. Mattel popsicles don't have many gorgeous packages, but they are very milky. Eat one, the pure and thick milk flavor and cold feeling are really cool, which will make you feel cool to the bottom of your heart. Yue Se Casper, a Jew, founded "Matil". From 1906 to now, it has experienced more than a century of ups and downs in the Qing Dynasty, Beiyang warlords, the Central National Government, Japanese puppet rule and the socialist period. Russian-style French food imported from Caspar, Yue Se, is high-grade, exquisite and eye-catching. At the same time, the first western-style cold drink hall in Harbin opened, creating a precedent for the cold drink industry in Harbin. Handmade sorbet and yogurt are only available to the upper bourgeoisie. Now the streets of Harbin have been selling Mattel popsicles for a long time. In Central Street alone, Mattel popsicles can sell more than 10,000 sticks every day. The storefront of the "Madill" cold drink hall is very narrow, and there is a window selling popsicles by the door. Popsicles are long, flat cubes with two flavors: cream and chocolate. In particular, goose down yellow cream popsicles are square, instant in the mouth, sweet but not greasy, and rich in milk flavor. Eating Mattel popsicles has become a "business card" for Harbin to welcome visitors from all directions. Eating Harbin's "Madill" popsicle is one of the dreams of many wanderers who miss their hometown. Tasting Harbin's "Madill" popsicle is one of the projects that many friends want to experience when they come to Harbin.

Harbin people eat popsicles in winter, which has become a unique landscape. They eat jiaozi at family gatherings, friends gatherings and when receiving relatives and friends. People in a city eat like this, 100 years ago, and it seems that they will continue to eat like this.