Ice Lamp Travel Guide

Brief Introduction
Ice Lamp(The Ice Lantern Garden Party) in Harbin City, covering an area of 6.5 hectare (about 16 acres) and the quantity of used ice is about 2,000 stere (about 71000 cubic feet), is the earliest and biggest artistic exhibition of the ice lantern in the open air in the world.

The Ice Lantern Garden Party is an outstanding achievement of people in Harbin. They exploit and utilize the local resources of ice and snow. The craftsmen in Harbin use the ice from Songhua River to create the omniform artworks of ice sculptures. All the artworks take on a grand verve and bewitching view.

The ice lanterns have become the pride of people in Harbin. The art of ice lantern making has reached maturity. It is a unique art exhibition of ice and snow which gathers multiple subjects such as gardening, architecture, sculpture, theatrics, Chinese painting, Chinese literature and Chinese music, which causes great influence both at home and abroad.

Meanwhile, modern science and technology of optics, mechanics and acoustics are applied to show us the multicolored and exquisitely carved ice lanterns. The ice artworks include the ice architecture, the ice sculpture, the ice waterfall, the ice parterre, the ice sliding board, the ice Chinese calligraphy, the ice miniascape, the ice advertisement and of course the ice lantern. So many different artworks are strewn at random around the Ice Lantern Garden Party to create a perfect world of ice and snow.

Once enter into Ice Lamp Garden,you will feel entering into a wonderland,where you can see ice lamp everywhere.There are vivid animals,grotesque buildings, vigorous hills and high-colored plants.