Cangzhou

Jinjie Pedestrian St, Yunhe Qu, Cangzhou Shi, Hebei Sheng, China

With the ice as the medium and the light as the soul, Harbin International Ice Sculpture Exhibition is an ice-lantern gardening art that integrates architecture, sculpture, painting and other elements. Through the exhibition of ice sculpture art, it puts on display the great changes in the city's appearance in recent years. The exhibition area is mainly comprised of culture, people, customs and modern urban changes, wherein the spirit of the people, modern and magnificent architecture and the large entertainment appear on a runway slide as an artistic exhibition. There are various entertainment activities such as a magical ice world carved from ice cubes, a lovely Antarctic penguin, a unique European-style ice bar street, and a children's cartoon playground.

Beida Mosque, located in Jiefang Road, Xinhua District featuring the Hui community, in the southeast of Cangzhou City, has a long historical tradition and profound cultural background. The mosque, built in the late Jianwen years during the Ming Dynasty, is a typical classical Chinese architecture. The main hall is majestic, consisting of the front, middle, and rear rooms, and the ancient shed. Because Muslims believe in Allah, the ancient architects designed the external structure of the mosque in the form of the character 主, meaning "Lord." Each hall has a roof that is decorated by "six beasts on all five ridges." The finely-carved beasts look extremely lifelike. The inner frame of the hall is a wooden structure, which preserves the appearance of the hall during the Ming dynasty. There are 81 columns, commonly known as the result of nine-times-nine.

Iron Lion of Cangzhou stands in the north-southeast of the Cang County Government area. It is said that the old and sizeable cast-iron lion was created to curb the tsunami floods. The body of the iron lion faces south while the head of the iron lion faces southwest. Striding forward with its two left feet, the lion has a majestic posture. It is a perfect example of the ingenuity of ancient wrought iron art.