Harbin Ice Harvest Festival | Harbin
Celebration
When ice and snow come, snowflakes fall, and Harbin, the brightest pearl on the crown of ice and snow, welcomes the season of ice and snow. On the banks of the Songhua River, the annual Ice Harvesting Festival will once again kick off Harbin's winter tourism. On December 7, at the beach tribe on the west side of the Songhua River highway bridge, the fifth Harbin Ice Harvesting Festival with the theme of "Harvesting the First Ice and Celebrating the Asian Winter" will be held, delivering the purest ice for the construction of Harbin Ice and Snow World and contributing "ice" power to the construction of this dreamy ice and snow wonderland.
This year's Ice Harvesting Festival will integrate more ice and snow culture, humanistic customs, and people's interactive elements on the basis of the traditional ice harvesting model, realize the inheritance and innovation of ice and snow culture, and present an ice harvesting ceremony with regional characteristics.
The entire Ice Harvesting Festival consists of wind-welcoming flags, sky-shaking drums, blessing words, expedition wine, first ice harvesting, and tying good luck. After the ceremony, there will be a mass party, lucky first day ice, big pot cooking of frozen dumplings, river water stewing of river fish, ice and snow fun, ice and snow market and other activities, which will transform the ice and snow charm in the extreme cold into a steaming northern scenery.