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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa152.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival","crawl_time":1774068200,"first_indexed_time":1420705660,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,wikipedia!en,\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival s443","src_root_hash":"17790707453426894952","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - Wikipedia","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Harbin Ice and Snow World\nDuring the 2003 festival\nGenre\nWinter festival\nLocations\nHarbin\n,\nChina\nCoordinates\n45°46′42″N\n126°33′23″E\n \/ \n45.77837°N 126.55626°E\nYears active\n1963–present\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival\nTraditional Chinese\n哈爾濱國際冰雪節\nSimplified Chinese\n哈尔滨国际冰雪节\nTranscriptions\nStandard Mandarin\nHanyu Pinyin\nHā'ěrbīn Guójì Bīngxuě Jié\nHarbin Ice and Snow World\n(\nChinese\n:\n哈尔滨冰雪世界\n;\npinyin\n:\nHā'ěrbīn Bīngxuě Shìjiè\n) is an annual\nwinter festival\nthat takes place in\nHarbin\n,\nHeilongjiang\n,\nChina\n, and is now the largest ice and snow festival in the world.  The festival includes the popular attraction\nIce and Snow World\n(冰雪大世界). Initially, the festival primarily attracted Chinese participants. Over time, however, it has grown into an international event and competition, drawing 3.56 million visitors and generating 266.17 billion\nyuan\n($36.71 billion) of revenue in 2025.\n[\n1\n]\nThe festival includes the world's biggest\nice sculptures\n.\n[\n2\n]\nThe festival exhibits open from late December to late February.\n[\n3\n]\nWhile ice sculptures are erected throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas:\nSun Island\nis a recreational area on the opposite side of the\nSonghua River\nfrom the city, which features an expo of enormous snow sculptures.\nIce and Snow World\n(冰雪大世界) is an area open in the afternoon and at night which features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of 2–3' thick ice taken directly from the Songhua River. The park usually opens from late December to late February. In 1999, the first Ice and Snow World opened to public to celebrate the millennium. Each year the park has to be rebuilt with newly designed ice buildings and snow and ice sculptures. In 2025, the park covered 1.2 million square meters (120 hectares).\n[\n1\n]\nDuring the festival, there are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. Winter activities during the festival include\nYabuli\nalpine skiing\n, winter-swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden.\nHarbin is located in\nNortheast China\nand receives cold winter wind from\nSiberia\n. The average temperature in summer is 21.2 °C (70.2 °F), and –16.8 °C (1.8 °F) in winter. Annual lows of -25 °C (–13 °F) are not uncommon.\n[\n4\n]\n[\n5\n]\nIce sculpture erected in  the 2010 Ice and Snow festival\nThe festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963. It was interrupted for a number of years during the\nCultural Revolution\n, but has since been resumed when an annual event at Zhaolin Park was announced on January 5, 1985.\n[\n6\n]\nIn 2001 the Harbin Ice Festival was merged with\nHeilongjiang\n's International Ski Festival and got its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.\n[\n7\n]\nIn 2007, the festival featured a\nCanadian\nthemed sculpture, in memory of Canadian doctor\nNorman Bethune\n. It was awarded a\nGuinness World Record\nfor the world's largest snow sculpture: 250 metres long, 28 feet (8.5 m) high, using over 13,000 cubic metres of snow. The composition consisted of two parts: the \"\nNiagara Falls\n\" and the \"crossing the\nBering Strait\n\" (the latter depicting the migration of the\nFirst Nations\n).\nIn 2014, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary with the theme \"50-Year Ice Snow, Charming Harbin\". Various fairs, competitions and expos were held from December 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014.\n[\n8\n]\n[\n9\n]\nIn 2015, the 31st Harbin Ice Snow Festival opened on January 5 and was themed \"Ice Snow Harbin, Charming China Dreams around the world\" with opening ceremony, firework show, ice lanterns, birthday parties, snow sculpture competitions and expos, as well as winter swimming, winter fishing, group wedding ceremony, fashion shows, concerts, ice sport games lasting from December 22, 2014 to early March 2015.\n[\n10\n]\n2019 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival\nAt the 35th annual festival held in 2019, the festival's most popular attraction, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, took up over 600,000 square meters and included more than 100 landmarks. It was made from 110,000 cubic meters of ice and 120,000 cubic meters of snow. The festival also included ice sculptures by artists from 12 different countries competing in the annual competition.\n[\n6\n]\nCelebrating its 36th year in 2020, this festival is presently viewed as one of the world's top winter celebrations, joining the ranks of the\nSapporo Snow Festival\nin Japan, Canada's\nQuebec Winter Carnival\nand Norway's\nHolmenkollen Ski Festival\n. In 2020, the sculptures were produced using roughly 220,000 cubic meters of ice blocks, all pulled from the nearby\nSonghua River\n.\n[\n11\n]\nIn 2021, the festival did not take place in full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n[\n12\n]\nThe festival was also part of the cultural program of the\n2009 Winter Universiade\nand the\n2025 Asian Winter Games\n. At the Asian Games, the cauldron was part of the festival's main plaza activities.\nIce sculpture of the\nGreat Sphinx of Giza\nerected for the 2010 festival\nSwing saws\nare used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the\nSonghua River\n.\n[\n13\n]\nChisels\n,\nice picks\nand various types of\nsaws\nare then used by\nice sculptors\nto carve out large scaled\nice sculptures\n,\n[\n14\n]\nmany of them intricately designed\n[\n13\n]\nand worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival. Deionised water can also be used, producing ice blocks as transparent as glass to make clear sculptures rather than translucent ones.\n[\n15\n]\nMulticoloured lights\n[\n16\n]\nare also used to give colour to ice, creating variations on sculptured spectacles when lit up especially at night. Some ice sculptures made in previous years include: buildings and monuments of different architectural types and styles, figures including animals people and mythical creatures, slippery dips or ice slides and lanterns.\n[\n17\n]\n[\n18\n]\nApart from winter recreational activities available in\nHarbin\n, these exquisitely detailed, mass-produced ice sculptures are the main draw card in attracting tourists around the world to the festival.\n[\n16\n]\nMoomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nHarbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\nIce and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013\n2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat\nIce palace\n^\na\nb\n\"World's largest ice and snow theme park opens, igniting China's winter tourism fever\"\n.\nPeople's Daily\n. Retrieved\n13 February\n2026\n.\n^\n\"Harbin Ice and Snow Festival\"\n. Retrieved\n27 December\n2014\n.\n^\n\"Harbin Ice Festival 2022 - 2023\"\n.\nicefestivalharbin.com\n.\n^\n\"HARBIN CLIMATE (CHINA)\"\n.\nen.climate-data.org\n.\n^\n\"Monthly weather forecast and climate Harbin, China\"\n.\nweather-atlas.com\n.\n^\na\nb\n\"World's largest ice and snow festival opens\"\n.\nCNN Travel\n. 2019-01-03\n. Retrieved\n2019-01-06\n.\n^\n\"第40届中国·哈尔滨国际冰雪节暨法中文化旅游年启幕-中新网\"\n.\nchinanews.com.cn\n(in Chinese). 2024-01-05\n. Retrieved\n2024-01-05\n.\n^\n\"Harbin Ice Festival 2014 Dates\"\n.\nIceFestivalHarbin\n. 2014\n. Retrieved\n27 May\n2014\n.\n^\n\"The 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2014\"\n.\nHarbin Ice\n. Retrieved\n27 May\n2014\n.\n^\n\"The 31st Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2015\"\n.\nHarbin Ice\n. Retrieved\n2 March\n2015\n.\n^\n\"World's largest ice and snow festival kicks off in China\"\n. 7 January 2020.\n^\n\"Harbin Ice and Snow Festival halted by new COVID-19 cases\"\n.\neuronews\n. 2021-01-06\n. Retrieved\n2023-05-19\n.\n^\na\nb\nAFP (13 November 2008).\n\"Ice is money in China's coldest city\"\n. The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from\nthe original\non 23 September 2012\n. Retrieved\n26 December\n2009\n.\n^\nBBC (6 January 2007).\n\"In pictures: Harbin ice festival\"\n. BBC News\n. Retrieved\n26 December\n2009\n.\n^\nZeitvogel, K. (18 December 2009).\n\"Chinese-sculpted winter wonderland in Washington\"\n. AFP\/Google. Archived from\nthe original\non December 24, 2009\n. Retrieved\n26 December\n2009\n.\n^\na\nb\nStrum, J. (22 December 2009).\n\"Northern Chinese city embraces cold and ice\"\n. The State Journal, Frankfort, Kentucky. Archived from\nthe original\non 7 March 2011\n. Retrieved\n26 December\n2009\n.\n^\nTaylor, A. (9 January 2009).\n\"Icy days and nights\"\n. Boston.com\/AP\/Getty Images\/AFP\/Reuters\n. Retrieved\n26 December\n2009\n.\n^\nMullen, N.; Lin, C-C. (2005).\n\"Chinese Folk Art, Festivals, and Symbolism in Everyday Life\"\n(PDF)\n. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology\/University of California, Berkeley. Archived from\nthe original\n(PDF)\non 24 August 2009\n. Retrieved\n26 December\n2009\n.\nFeature on the Boston Globe Big Picture","attrs_markdown":"[Jump to content](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#bodyContent)\n\nMain menu\n\nMain menu\n\nmove to sidebar\n\nhide\n\nNavigation\n\n- [Main page](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page \"Visit the main page [z]\")\n- [Contents](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contents \"Guides to browsing Wikipedia\")\n- [Current events](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal:Current_events \"Articles related to current events\")\n- [Random article](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random \"Visit a randomly selected article [x]\")\n- [About Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:About \"Learn about Wikipedia and how it works\")\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contact_us \"How to contact Wikipedia\")\n\nContribute\n\n- [Help](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Contents \"Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Learn to edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Introduction \"Learn how to edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Community portal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Community_portal \"The hub for editors\")\n- [Recent changes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:RecentChanges \"A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]\")\n- [Upload file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard \"Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia\")\n- [Special pages](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:SpecialPages \"A list of all special pages [q]\")\n\n[![](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/icons\/enwiki-25.svg) ![Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-wordmark-en-25.svg) ![The Free Encyclopedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-tagline-en-25.svg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search \"Search Wikipedia [f]\")\n\nAppearance\n\n- [Donate](https:\/\/donate.wikimedia.org\/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en)\n- [Create account](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Harbin+International+Ice+and+Snow+Sculpture+Festival \"You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory\")\n- [Log in](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Harbin+International+Ice+and+Snow+Sculpture+Festival \"You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. 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[Azərbaycanca](https:\/\/az.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_Beyn%C9%99lxalq_Buz_v%C9%99_Qar_Heyk%C9%99l%C4%B1_Festival%C4%B1 \"Harbin Beynəlxalq Buz və Qar Heykəlı Festivalı – Azerbaijani\")\n- [বাংলা](https:\/\/bn.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AB_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%82_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF_%E0%A6%89%E0%A7%8E%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AC \"হার্বিন আন্তর্জাতিক বরফ এবং তুষার ভাস্কর্য উৎসব – Bangla\")\n- [Català](https:\/\/ca.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_d%27escultures_de_gel_i_neu_de_Harbin \"Festival d'escultures de gel i neu de Harbin – Catalan\")\n- [Čeština](https:\/\/cs.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mezin%C3%A1rodn%C3%AD_festival_soch_z_ledu_a_sn%C4%9Bhu_v_Charbinu \"Mezinárodní festival soch z ledu a sněhu v Charbinu – Czech\")\n- [Deutsch](https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbiner_Internationales_Eis-_und_Schneefest \"Harbiner Internationales Eis- und Schneefest – German\")\n- [Español](https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_de_esculturas_de_hielo_y_nieve_de_Harbin \"Festival de esculturas de hielo y nieve de Harbin – Spanish\")\n- [Français](https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_de_sculptures_sur_glace_et_de_neige_de_Harbin \"Festival de sculptures sur glace et de neige de Harbin – French\")\n- [עברית](https:\/\/he.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D7%A4%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91%D7%9C_%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9F-%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%97_%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%92 \"פסטיבל חרבין הבין-לאומי לפיסול בקרח ושלג – Hebrew\")\n- [Հայերեն](https:\/\/hy.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D5%80%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A2%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B5%D6%81%D5%AB_%D6%87_%D5%B1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D6%83%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D5%B6 \"Հարբինի սառույցի և ձյան միջազգային փառատոն – Armenian\")\n- [Bahasa Indonesia](https:\/\/id.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_Internasional_Salju_dan_Es_Harbin \"Festival Internasional Salju dan Es Harbin – Indonesian\")\n- [Italiano](https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Festival_internazionale_delle_sculture_di_ghiaccio_e_neve_di_Harbin \"Festival internazionale delle sculture di ghiaccio e neve di Harbin – Italian\")\n- [日本語](https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E6%B0%B7%E7%A5%AD%E3%82%8A \"ハルビン氷祭り – Japanese\")\n- [한국어](https:\/\/ko.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%ED%95%98%EC%96%BC%EB%B9%88_%EA%B5%AD%EC%A0%9C%EB%B9%99%EC%84%A4%EC%A0%9C \"하얼빈 국제빙설제 – Korean\")\n- 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[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/63\/Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg\/330px-Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg)During the 2003 festival |   |\n| Genre | Winter festival |\n| Locations | [Harbin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin \"Harbin\"), [China](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PRC \"PRC\") |\n| Coordinates | [45°46′42″N 126°33′23″E \/ 45\\.77837°N 126.55626°E \/ 45\\.77837; 126.55626](https:\/\/geohack.toolforge.org\/geohack.php?pagename=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&params=45.77837_N_126.55626_E_type:event) |\n| Years active | 1963–present |\n\n| Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival |   |\n|---|---|\n| [Traditional Chinese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traditional_Chinese_characters \"Traditional Chinese characters\") | 哈爾濱國際冰雪節 |\n| [Simplified Chinese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simplified_Chinese_characters \"Simplified Chinese characters\") | 哈尔滨国际冰雪节 |\n| Transcriptions |   |\n| [Standard Mandarin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_Chinese \"Standard Chinese\") |   |\n| [Hanyu Pinyin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanyu_Pinyin \"Hanyu Pinyin\") | Hā'ěrbīn Guójì Bīngxuě Jié |\n\n**[Harbin Ice and Snow World]()** ([Chinese](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_language \"Chinese language\"): 哈尔滨冰雪世界; [pinyin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pinyin \"Pinyin\"): *Hā'ěrbīn Bīngxuě Shìjiè*) is an annual [winter festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter_festival \"Winter festival\") that takes place in [Harbin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin \"Harbin\"), [Heilongjiang](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heilongjiang \"Heilongjiang\"), [China](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China \"China\"), and is now the largest ice and snow festival in the world. The festival includes the popular attraction **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界). Initially, the festival primarily attracted Chinese participants. Over time, however, it has grown into an international event and competition, drawing 3.56 million visitors and generating 266.17 billion [yuan](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renminbi \"Renminbi\") (\\$36.71 billion) of revenue in 2025.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1) The festival includes the world's biggest [ice sculptures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sculptures \"Ice sculptures\").[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-2)\n\nThe festival exhibits open from late December to late February.[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-3) While ice sculptures are erected throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas:\n\n- **Sun Island** is a recreational area on the opposite side of the [Songhua River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songhua_River \"Songhua River\") from the city, which features an expo of enormous snow sculptures.\n- **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界) is an area open in the afternoon and at night which features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of 2–3' thick ice taken directly from the Songhua River. The park usually opens from late December to late February. In 1999, the first Ice and Snow World opened to public to celebrate the millennium. Each year the park has to be rebuilt with newly designed ice buildings and snow and ice sculptures. In 2025, the park covered 1.2 million square meters (120 hectares).[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1)\n\nDuring the festival, there are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. Winter activities during the festival include [Yabuli](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yabuli_Ski_Resort \"Yabuli Ski Resort\") [alpine skiing](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpine_skiing \"Alpine skiing\"), winter-swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden.\n\nHarbin is located in [Northeast China](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northeast_China \"Northeast China\") and receives cold winter wind from [Siberia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siberia \"Siberia\"). The average temperature in summer is 21.2 °C (70.2 °F), and –16.8 °C (1.8 °F) in winter. Annual lows of -25 °C (–13 °F) are not uncommon.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-4)[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-5)\n\n## History\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=1 \"Edit section: History\")\\]\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg\/250px-Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg)\n\nIce sculpture erected in the 2010 Ice and Snow festival\n\nThe festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963. It was interrupted for a number of years during the [Cultural Revolution](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_Revolution \"Cultural Revolution\"), but has since been resumed when an annual event at Zhaolin Park was announced on January 5, 1985.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6)\n\nIn 2001 the Harbin Ice Festival was merged with [Heilongjiang](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heilongjiang \"Heilongjiang\")'s International Ski Festival and got its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-chinanews.com.cn_2024_e459-7)\n\nIn 2007, the festival featured a [Canadian](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada \"Canada\") themed sculpture, in memory of Canadian doctor [Norman Bethune](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Bethune \"Norman Bethune\"). It was awarded a [Guinness World Record](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinness_World_Record \"Guinness World Record\") for the world's largest snow sculpture: 250 metres long, 28 feet (8.5 m) high, using over 13,000 cubic metres of snow. The composition consisted of two parts: the \"[Niagara Falls](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niagara_Falls \"Niagara Falls\")\" and the \"crossing the [Bering Strait](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bering_Strait \"Bering Strait\")\" (the latter depicting the migration of the [First Nations](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Nations_in_Canada \"First Nations in Canada\")).\n\nIn 2014, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary with the theme \"50-Year Ice Snow, Charming Harbin\". Various fairs, competitions and expos were held from December 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-8)[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-9)\n\nIn 2015, the 31st Harbin Ice Snow Festival opened on January 5 and was themed \"Ice Snow Harbin, Charming China Dreams around the world\" with opening ceremony, firework show, ice lanterns, birthday parties, snow sculpture competitions and expos, as well as winter swimming, winter fishing, group wedding ceremony, fashion shows, concerts, ice sport games lasting from December 22, 2014 to early March 2015.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-10)\n\n2019 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival\n\nAt the 35th annual festival held in 2019, the festival's most popular attraction, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, took up over 600,000 square meters and included more than 100 landmarks. It was made from 110,000 cubic meters of ice and 120,000 cubic meters of snow. The festival also included ice sculptures by artists from 12 different countries competing in the annual competition.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6)\n\nCelebrating its 36th year in 2020, this festival is presently viewed as one of the world's top winter celebrations, joining the ranks of the [Sapporo Snow Festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sapporo_Snow_Festival \"Sapporo Snow Festival\") in Japan, Canada's [Quebec Winter Carnival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quebec_Winter_Carnival \"Quebec Winter Carnival\") and Norway's [Holmenkollen Ski Festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holmenkollen_Ski_Festival \"Holmenkollen Ski Festival\"). In 2020, the sculptures were produced using roughly 220,000 cubic meters of ice blocks, all pulled from the nearby [Songhua River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songhua_River \"Songhua River\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-11)\n\nIn 2021, the festival did not take place in full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-12)\n\nThe festival was also part of the cultural program of the [2009 Winter Universiade](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Winter_Universiade \"2009 Winter Universiade\") and the [2025 Asian Winter Games](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_Asian_Winter_Games \"2025 Asian Winter Games\"). At the Asian Games, the cauldron was part of the festival's main plaza activities.\n\n## Construction\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=2 \"Edit section: Construction\")\\]\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/36\/Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg\/250px-Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg)\n\nIce sculpture of the [Great Sphinx of Giza](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza \"Great Sphinx of Giza\") erected for the 2010 festival\n\n[Swing saws](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swing_saw \"Swing saw\") are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the [Songhua River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songhua_River \"Songhua River\").[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) [Chisels](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chisel \"Chisel\"), [ice picks](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_pick \"Ice pick\") and various types of [saws](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saw \"Saw\") are then used by [ice sculptors](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sculptor \"Ice sculptor\") to carve out large scaled [ice sculptures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sculpture \"Ice sculpture\"),[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-14) many of them intricately designed[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival. Deionised water can also be used, producing ice blocks as transparent as glass to make clear sculptures rather than translucent ones.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-15) Multicoloured lights[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16) are also used to give colour to ice, creating variations on sculptured spectacles when lit up especially at night. Some ice sculptures made in previous years include: buildings and monuments of different architectural types and styles, figures including animals people and mythical creatures, slippery dips or ice slides and lanterns.[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-17)[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-18) Apart from winter recreational activities available in [Harbin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin \"Harbin\"), these exquisitely detailed, mass-produced ice sculptures are the main draw card in attracting tourists around the world to the festival.[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16)\n\n## Gallery\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: Gallery\")\\]\n\n- 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2010](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/61\/%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0067.JPG\/250px-%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0067.JPG)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0067.JPG \"Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\")\n  Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\n- [![Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b6\/%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0046.JPG\/250px-%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0046.JPG)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0046.JPG \"Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\")\n  Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\n- [![Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f3\/%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0045.JPG\/250px-%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0045.JPG)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0045.JPG \"Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\")\n  Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\n- [![Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/37\/%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0066.JPG\/250px-%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0066.JPG)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0066.JPG \"Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\")\n  Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010\n- [![Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/50\/Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg\/250px-Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg \"Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013\")\n  Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013\n- [![2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fb\/2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png\/250px-2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png \"2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat\")\n  2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat\n\n## See also\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=4 \"Edit section: See also\")\\]\n\n- [Ice palace](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_palace \"Ice palace\")\n\n## References\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=5 \"Edit section: References\")\\]\n\n1. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-news2025_1-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-news2025_1-1)\n   [\"World's largest ice and snow theme park opens, igniting China's winter tourism fever\"](https:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2025\/1218\/c90000-20403839.html). *People's Daily*. Retrieved 13 February 2026.\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-2)**\n   [\"Harbin Ice and Snow Festival\"](http:\/\/www.travelchinaguide.com\/attraction\/heilongjiang\/harbin\/ice_snow.htm). Retrieved 27 December 2014.\n3. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-3)**\n   [\"Harbin Ice Festival 2022 - 2023\"](https:\/\/www.icefestivalharbin.com\/). *icefestivalharbin.com*.\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-4)**\n   [\"HARBIN CLIMATE (CHINA)\"](https:\/\/en.climate-data.org\/asia\/china\/heilongjiang\/harbin-3488\/). *en.climate-data.org*.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-5)**\n   [\"Monthly weather forecast and climate Harbin, China\"](https:\/\/www.weather-atlas.com\/en\/china\/harbin). *weather-atlas.com*.\n6. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-:0_6-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-:0_6-1)\n   [\"World's largest ice and snow festival opens\"](https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/harbin-ice-and-snow-festival-2019-china\/index.html). *CNN Travel*. 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-06.\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-chinanews.com.cn_2024_e459_7-0)**\n   [\"第40届中国·哈尔滨国际冰雪节暨法中文化旅游年启幕-中新网\"](https:\/\/www.chinanews.com.cn\/cj\/2024\/01-05\/10141367.shtml). *chinanews.com.cn* (in Chinese). 2024-01-05. Retrieved 2024-01-05.\n8. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-8)**\n   [\"Harbin Ice Festival 2014 Dates\"](https:\/\/www.icefestivalharbin.com\/article-p112-harbin-ice-festival-2014-dates.html). *IceFestivalHarbin*. 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-9)**\n   [\"The 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2014\"](http:\/\/www.harbinice.com\/fact-v14-the-30th-harbin-ice-and-snow-festival-2014.html). *Harbin Ice*. Retrieved 27 May 2014.\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-10)**\n    [\"The 31st Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2015\"](http:\/\/www.harbinice.com\/fact-v19-the-31th-harbin-ice-and-snow-festival-2015.html). *Harbin Ice*. Retrieved 2 March 2015.\n11. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-11)**\n    [\"World's largest ice and snow festival kicks off in China\"](https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/harbin-ice-and-snow-festival-2020-china\/index.html). 7 January 2020.\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-12)**\n    [\"Harbin Ice and Snow Festival halted by new COVID-19 cases\"](https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2021\/01\/06\/harbin-ice-and-snow-festival-in-china-halted-by-new-covid-19-cases). *euronews*. 2021-01-06. Retrieved 2023-05-19.\n13. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-coldestcity_13-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-coldestcity_13-1)\n    AFP (13 November 2008). [\"Ice is money in China's coldest city\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120923054919\/http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/ice-is-money-in-chinas-coldest-city-20081113-62yj.html). The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/travel\/ice-is-money-in-chinas-coldest-city-20081113-62yj.html) on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 26 December 2009.\n14. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-14)**\n    BBC (6 January 2007). [\"In pictures: Harbin ice festival\"](http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/6237381.stm). BBC News. 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The State Journal, Frankfort, Kentucky. Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.state-journal.com\/news\/article\/4734375) on 7 March 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2009.\n17. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-17)**\n    Taylor, A. (9 January 2009). [\"Icy days and nights\"](http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2009\/01\/icy_days_and_nights.html). Boston.com\/AP\/Getty Images\/AFP\/Reuters. Retrieved 26 December 2009.\n18. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-18)**\n    Mullen, N.; Lin, C-C. (2005). [\"Chinese Folk Art, Festivals, and Symbolism in Everyday Life\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090824170550\/http:\/\/hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu\/outreach\/pdfs\/chinese_folk_art.pdf) (PDF). Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology\/University of California, Berkeley. 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The festival includes the popular attraction **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界). Initially, the festival primarily attracted Chinese participants. Over time, however, it has grown into an international event and competition, drawing 3.56 million visitors and generating 266.17 billion [yuan](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renminbi \"Renminbi\") (\\$36.71 billion) of revenue in 2025.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1) The festival includes the world's biggest [ice sculptures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sculptures \"Ice sculptures\").[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-2)\n\nThe festival exhibits open from late December to late February.[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-3) While ice sculptures are erected throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas:\n\n- **Sun Island** is a recreational area on the opposite side of the [Songhua River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songhua_River \"Songhua River\") from the city, which features an expo of enormous snow sculptures.\n- **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界) is an area open in the afternoon and at night which features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of 2–3' thick ice taken directly from the Songhua River. The park usually opens from late December to late February. In 1999, the first Ice and Snow World opened to public to celebrate the millennium. Each year the park has to be rebuilt with newly designed ice buildings and snow and ice sculptures. In 2025, the park covered 1.2 million square meters (120 hectares).[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1)\n\nDuring the festival, there are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. Winter activities during the festival include [Yabuli](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yabuli_Ski_Resort \"Yabuli Ski Resort\") [alpine skiing](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpine_skiing \"Alpine skiing\"), winter-swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden.\n\nHarbin is located in [Northeast China](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northeast_China \"Northeast China\") and receives cold winter wind from [Siberia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siberia \"Siberia\"). The average temperature in summer is 21.2 °C (70.2 °F), and –16.8 °C (1.8 °F) in winter. Annual lows of -25 °C (–13 °F) are not uncommon.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-4)[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-5)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg\/250px-Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg)\n\nIce sculpture erected in the 2010 Ice and Snow festival\n\nThe festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963. It was interrupted for a number of years during the [Cultural Revolution](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cultural_Revolution \"Cultural Revolution\"), but has since been resumed when an annual event at Zhaolin Park was announced on January 5, 1985.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6)\n\nIn 2001 the Harbin Ice Festival was merged with [Heilongjiang](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heilongjiang \"Heilongjiang\")'s International Ski Festival and got its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-chinanews.com.cn_2024_e459-7)\n\nIn 2007, the festival featured a [Canadian](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada \"Canada\") themed sculpture, in memory of Canadian doctor [Norman Bethune](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Bethune \"Norman Bethune\"). It was awarded a [Guinness World Record](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinness_World_Record \"Guinness World Record\") for the world's largest snow sculpture: 250 metres long, 28 feet (8.5 m) high, using over 13,000 cubic metres of snow. The composition consisted of two parts: the \"[Niagara Falls](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niagara_Falls \"Niagara Falls\")\" and the \"crossing the [Bering Strait](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bering_Strait \"Bering Strait\")\" (the latter depicting the migration of the [First Nations](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/First_Nations_in_Canada \"First Nations in Canada\")).\n\nIn 2014, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary with the theme \"50-Year Ice Snow, Charming Harbin\". Various fairs, competitions and expos were held from December 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-8)[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-9)\n\nIn 2015, the 31st Harbin Ice Snow Festival opened on January 5 and was themed \"Ice Snow Harbin, Charming China Dreams around the world\" with opening ceremony, firework show, ice lanterns, birthday parties, snow sculpture competitions and expos, as well as winter swimming, winter fishing, group wedding ceremony, fashion shows, concerts, ice sport games lasting from December 22, 2014 to early March 2015.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-10)\n\n2019 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival\n\nAt the 35th annual festival held in 2019, the festival's most popular attraction, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, took up over 600,000 square meters and included more than 100 landmarks. It was made from 110,000 cubic meters of ice and 120,000 cubic meters of snow. The festival also included ice sculptures by artists from 12 different countries competing in the annual competition.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6)\n\nCelebrating its 36th year in 2020, this festival is presently viewed as one of the world's top winter celebrations, joining the ranks of the [Sapporo Snow Festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sapporo_Snow_Festival \"Sapporo Snow Festival\") in Japan, Canada's [Quebec Winter Carnival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quebec_Winter_Carnival \"Quebec Winter Carnival\") and Norway's [Holmenkollen Ski Festival](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holmenkollen_Ski_Festival \"Holmenkollen Ski Festival\"). In 2020, the sculptures were produced using roughly 220,000 cubic meters of ice blocks, all pulled from the nearby [Songhua River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songhua_River \"Songhua River\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-11)\n\nIn 2021, the festival did not take place in full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-12)\n\nThe festival was also part of the cultural program of the [2009 Winter Universiade](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_Winter_Universiade \"2009 Winter Universiade\") and the [2025 Asian Winter Games](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2025_Asian_Winter_Games \"2025 Asian Winter Games\"). At the Asian Games, the cauldron was part of the festival's main plaza activities.\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/36\/Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg\/250px-Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg)\n\nIce sculpture of the [Great Sphinx of Giza](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza \"Great Sphinx of Giza\") erected for the 2010 festival\n\n[Swing saws](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swing_saw \"Swing saw\") are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the [Songhua River](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songhua_River \"Songhua River\").[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) [Chisels](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chisel \"Chisel\"), [ice picks](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_pick \"Ice pick\") and various types of [saws](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saw \"Saw\") are then used by [ice sculptors](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sculptor \"Ice sculptor\") to carve out large scaled [ice sculptures](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ice_sculpture \"Ice sculpture\"),[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-14) many of them intricately designed[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival. Deionised water can also be used, producing ice blocks as transparent as glass to make clear sculptures rather than translucent ones.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-15) Multicoloured lights[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16) are also used to give colour to ice, creating variations on sculptured spectacles when lit up especially at night. Some ice sculptures made in previous years include: buildings and monuments of different architectural types and styles, figures including animals people and mythical creatures, slippery dips or ice slides and lanterns.[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-17)[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-18) Apart from winter recreational activities available in [Harbin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin \"Harbin\"), these exquisitely detailed, mass-produced ice sculptures are the main draw card in attracting tourists around the world to the festival.[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16)\n\n- [![Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 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Harbin Ice and Snow World During the 2003 festival Genre Winter festival Locations Harbin , China Coordinates 45°46′42″N 126°33′23″E / 45.77837°N 126.55626°E Years active 1963–present Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival Traditional Chinese 哈爾濱國際冰雪節 Simplified Chinese 哈尔滨国际冰雪节 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hā'ěrbīn Guójì Bīngxuě Jié Harbin Ice and Snow World ( Chinese : 哈尔滨冰雪世界 ; pinyin : Hā'ěrbīn Bīngxuě Shìjiè ) is an annual winter festival that takes place in Harbin , Heilongjiang , China , and is now the largest ice and snow festival in the world. The festival includes the popular attraction Ice and Snow World (冰雪大世界). Initially, the festival primarily attracted Chinese participants. Over time, however, it has grown into an international event and competition, drawing 3.56 million visitors and generating 266.17 billion yuan ($36.71 billion) of revenue in 2025. [ 1 ] The festival includes the world's biggest ice sculptures . [ 2 ] The festival exhibits open from late December to late February. [ 3 ] While ice sculptures are erected throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas: Sun Island is a recreational area on the opposite side of the Songhua River from the city, which features an expo of enormous snow sculptures. Ice and Snow World (冰雪大世界) is an area open in the afternoon and at night which features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of 2–3' thick ice taken directly from the Songhua River. The park usually opens from late December to late February. In 1999, the first Ice and Snow World opened to public to celebrate the millennium. Each year the park has to be rebuilt with newly designed ice buildings and snow and ice sculptures. In 2025, the park covered 1.2 million square meters (120 hectares). [ 1 ] During the festival, there are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. Winter activities during the festival include Yabuli alpine skiing , winter-swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden. Harbin is located in Northeast China and receives cold winter wind from Siberia . The average temperature in summer is 21.2 °C (70.2 °F), and –16.8 °C (1.8 °F) in winter. Annual lows of -25 °C (–13 °F) are not uncommon. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Ice sculpture erected in the 2010 Ice and Snow festival The festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963. It was interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution , but has since been resumed when an annual event at Zhaolin Park was announced on January 5, 1985. [ 6 ] In 2001 the Harbin Ice Festival was merged with Heilongjiang 's International Ski Festival and got its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. [ 7 ] In 2007, the festival featured a Canadian themed sculpture, in memory of Canadian doctor Norman Bethune . It was awarded a Guinness World Record for the world's largest snow sculpture: 250 metres long, 28 feet (8.5 m) high, using over 13,000 cubic metres of snow. The composition consisted of two parts: the " Niagara Falls " and the "crossing the Bering Strait " (the latter depicting the migration of the First Nations ). In 2014, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary with the theme "50-Year Ice Snow, Charming Harbin". Various fairs, competitions and expos were held from December 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2015, the 31st Harbin Ice Snow Festival opened on January 5 and was themed "Ice Snow Harbin, Charming China Dreams around the world" with opening ceremony, firework show, ice lanterns, birthday parties, snow sculpture competitions and expos, as well as winter swimming, winter fishing, group wedding ceremony, fashion shows, concerts, ice sport games lasting from December 22, 2014 to early March 2015. [ 10 ] 2019 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival At the 35th annual festival held in 2019, the festival's most popular attraction, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, took up over 600,000 square meters and included more than 100 landmarks. It was made from 110,000 cubic meters of ice and 120,000 cubic meters of snow. The festival also included ice sculptures by artists from 12 different countries competing in the annual competition. [ 6 ] Celebrating its 36th year in 2020, this festival is presently viewed as one of the world's top winter celebrations, joining the ranks of the Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan, Canada's Quebec Winter Carnival and Norway's Holmenkollen Ski Festival . In 2020, the sculptures were produced using roughly 220,000 cubic meters of ice blocks, all pulled from the nearby Songhua River . [ 11 ] In 2021, the festival did not take place in full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 12 ] The festival was also part of the cultural program of the 2009 Winter Universiade and the 2025 Asian Winter Games . At the Asian Games, the cauldron was part of the festival's main plaza activities. Ice sculpture of the Great Sphinx of Giza erected for the 2010 festival Swing saws are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the Songhua River . [ 13 ] Chisels , ice picks and various types of saws are then used by ice sculptors to carve out large scaled ice sculptures , [ 14 ] many of them intricately designed [ 13 ] and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival. Deionised water can also be used, producing ice blocks as transparent as glass to make clear sculptures rather than translucent ones. [ 15 ] Multicoloured lights [ 16 ] are also used to give colour to ice, creating variations on sculptured spectacles when lit up especially at night. Some ice sculptures made in previous years include: buildings and monuments of different architectural types and styles, figures including animals people and mythical creatures, slippery dips or ice slides and lanterns. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Apart from winter recreational activities available in Harbin , these exquisitely detailed, mass-produced ice sculptures are the main draw card in attracting tourists around the world to the festival. [ 16 ] Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013 2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat Ice palace ^ a b "World's largest ice and snow theme park opens, igniting China's winter tourism fever" . People's Daily . Retrieved 13 February 2026 . ^ "Harbin Ice and Snow Festival" . Retrieved 27 December 2014 . ^ "Harbin Ice Festival 2022 - 2023" . icefestivalharbin.com . ^ "HARBIN CLIMATE (CHINA)" . en.climate-data.org . ^ "Monthly weather forecast and climate Harbin, China" . weather-atlas.com . ^ a b "World's largest ice and snow festival opens" . CNN Travel . 2019-01-03 . Retrieved 2019-01-06 . ^ "第40届中国·哈尔滨国际冰雪节暨法中文化旅游年启幕-中新网" . chinanews.com.cn (in Chinese). 2024-01-05 . Retrieved 2024-01-05 . ^ "Harbin Ice Festival 2014 Dates" . IceFestivalHarbin . 2014 . Retrieved 27 May 2014 . ^ "The 30th Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2014" . Harbin Ice . Retrieved 27 May 2014 . ^ "The 31st Harbin Ice and Snow Festival 2015" . Harbin Ice . Retrieved 2 March 2015 . ^ "World's largest ice and snow festival kicks off in China" . 7 January 2020. ^ "Harbin Ice and Snow Festival halted by new COVID-19 cases" . euronews . 2021-01-06 . Retrieved 2023-05-19 . ^ a b AFP (13 November 2008). "Ice is money in China's coldest city" . The Sydney Morning Herald. 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[Wikidata item](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q1960307 "Structured data on this page hosted by Wikidata [g]") Appearance move to sidebar hide [Coordinates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system "Geographic coordinate system"): [45°46′42″N 126°33′23″E / 45\.77837°N 126.55626°E / 45\.77837; 126.55626](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&params=45.77837_N_126.55626_E_type:event) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Annual winter festival in Harbin, China | Harbin Ice and Snow World | | |---|---| | [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg/330px-Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg)During the 2003 festival | | | Genre | Winter festival | | Locations | [Harbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin "Harbin"), [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC "PRC") | | Coordinates | [45°46′42″N 126°33′23″E / 45\.77837°N 126.55626°E / 45\.77837; 126.55626](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&params=45.77837_N_126.55626_E_type:event) | | Years active | 1963–present | | Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival | | |---|---| | [Traditional Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters "Traditional Chinese characters") | 哈爾濱國際冰雪節 | | [Simplified Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters "Simplified Chinese characters") | 哈尔滨国际冰雪节 | | Transcriptions | | | [Standard Mandarin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese "Standard Chinese") | | | [Hanyu Pinyin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin "Hanyu Pinyin") | Hā'ěrbīn Guójì Bīngxuě Jié | **[Harbin Ice and Snow World]()** ([Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language "Chinese language"): 哈尔滨冰雪世界; [pinyin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin "Pinyin"): *Hā'ěrbīn Bīngxuě Shìjiè*) is an annual [winter festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_festival "Winter festival") that takes place in [Harbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin "Harbin"), [Heilongjiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang "Heilongjiang"), [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China "China"), and is now the largest ice and snow festival in the world. The festival includes the popular attraction **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界). Initially, the festival primarily attracted Chinese participants. Over time, however, it has grown into an international event and competition, drawing 3.56 million visitors and generating 266.17 billion [yuan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi "Renminbi") (\$36.71 billion) of revenue in 2025.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1) The festival includes the world's biggest [ice sculptures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculptures "Ice sculptures").[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-2) The festival exhibits open from late December to late February.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-3) While ice sculptures are erected throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas: - **Sun Island** is a recreational area on the opposite side of the [Songhua River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River "Songhua River") from the city, which features an expo of enormous snow sculptures. - **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界) is an area open in the afternoon and at night which features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of 2–3' thick ice taken directly from the Songhua River. The park usually opens from late December to late February. In 1999, the first Ice and Snow World opened to public to celebrate the millennium. Each year the park has to be rebuilt with newly designed ice buildings and snow and ice sculptures. In 2025, the park covered 1.2 million square meters (120 hectares).[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1) During the festival, there are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. Winter activities during the festival include [Yabuli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabuli_Ski_Resort "Yabuli Ski Resort") [alpine skiing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_skiing "Alpine skiing"), winter-swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden. Harbin is located in [Northeast China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_China "Northeast China") and receives cold winter wind from [Siberia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia "Siberia"). The average temperature in summer is 21.2 °C (70.2 °F), and –16.8 °C (1.8 °F) in winter. Annual lows of -25 °C (–13 °F) are not uncommon.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-5) ## History \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: History")\] [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg/250px-Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg) Ice sculpture erected in the 2010 Ice and Snow festival The festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963. It was interrupted for a number of years during the [Cultural Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution "Cultural Revolution"), but has since been resumed when an annual event at Zhaolin Park was announced on January 5, 1985.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6) In 2001 the Harbin Ice Festival was merged with [Heilongjiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang "Heilongjiang")'s International Ski Festival and got its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-chinanews.com.cn_2024_e459-7) In 2007, the festival featured a [Canadian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada "Canada") themed sculpture, in memory of Canadian doctor [Norman Bethune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bethune "Norman Bethune"). It was awarded a [Guinness World Record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Record "Guinness World Record") for the world's largest snow sculpture: 250 metres long, 28 feet (8.5 m) high, using over 13,000 cubic metres of snow. The composition consisted of two parts: the "[Niagara Falls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls "Niagara Falls")" and the "crossing the [Bering Strait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait "Bering Strait")" (the latter depicting the migration of the [First Nations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada "First Nations in Canada")). In 2014, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary with the theme "50-Year Ice Snow, Charming Harbin". Various fairs, competitions and expos were held from December 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-8)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-9) In 2015, the 31st Harbin Ice Snow Festival opened on January 5 and was themed "Ice Snow Harbin, Charming China Dreams around the world" with opening ceremony, firework show, ice lanterns, birthday parties, snow sculpture competitions and expos, as well as winter swimming, winter fishing, group wedding ceremony, fashion shows, concerts, ice sport games lasting from December 22, 2014 to early March 2015.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-10) 2019 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival At the 35th annual festival held in 2019, the festival's most popular attraction, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, took up over 600,000 square meters and included more than 100 landmarks. It was made from 110,000 cubic meters of ice and 120,000 cubic meters of snow. The festival also included ice sculptures by artists from 12 different countries competing in the annual competition.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6) Celebrating its 36th year in 2020, this festival is presently viewed as one of the world's top winter celebrations, joining the ranks of the [Sapporo Snow Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo_Snow_Festival "Sapporo Snow Festival") in Japan, Canada's [Quebec Winter Carnival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Winter_Carnival "Quebec Winter Carnival") and Norway's [Holmenkollen Ski Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmenkollen_Ski_Festival "Holmenkollen Ski Festival"). In 2020, the sculptures were produced using roughly 220,000 cubic meters of ice blocks, all pulled from the nearby [Songhua River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River "Songhua River").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-11) In 2021, the festival did not take place in full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-12) The festival was also part of the cultural program of the [2009 Winter Universiade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Winter_Universiade "2009 Winter Universiade") and the [2025 Asian Winter Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Asian_Winter_Games "2025 Asian Winter Games"). At the Asian Games, the cauldron was part of the festival's main plaza activities. ## Construction \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Construction")\] [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg/250px-Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg) Ice sculpture of the [Great Sphinx of Giza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza "Great Sphinx of Giza") erected for the 2010 festival [Swing saws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_saw "Swing saw") are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the [Songhua River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River "Songhua River").[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) [Chisels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel "Chisel"), [ice picks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pick "Ice pick") and various types of [saws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw "Saw") are then used by [ice sculptors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculptor "Ice sculptor") to carve out large scaled [ice sculptures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculpture "Ice sculpture"),[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-14) many of them intricately designed[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival. Deionised water can also be used, producing ice blocks as transparent as glass to make clear sculptures rather than translucent ones.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-15) Multicoloured lights[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16) are also used to give colour to ice, creating variations on sculptured spectacles when lit up especially at night. Some ice sculptures made in previous years include: buildings and monuments of different architectural types and styles, figures including animals people and mythical creatures, slippery dips or ice slides and lanterns.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-17)[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-18) Apart from winter recreational activities available in [Harbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin "Harbin"), these exquisitely detailed, mass-produced ice sculptures are the main draw card in attracting tourists around the world to the festival.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16) ## Gallery \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: Gallery")\] - [![Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Moomen_in_Snew%2C_Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival_%283238489838%29.jpg/250px-Moomen_in_Snew%2C_Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival_%283238489838%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moomen_in_Snew,_Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival_$3238489838$.jpg "Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009") Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009 - 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[![Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg/250px-Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg "Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013") Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013 - [![2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png/250px-2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png "2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat") 2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat ## See also \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: See also")\] - [Ice palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_palace "Ice palace") ## References \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: References")\] 1. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-news2025_1-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-news2025_1-1) ["World's largest ice and snow theme park opens, igniting China's winter tourism fever"](https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/1218/c90000-20403839.html). *People's Daily*. 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| Harbin Ice and Snow World | | |---|---| | [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg/330px-Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harbin_Ice_Festival.jpg)During the 2003 festival | | | Genre | Winter festival | | Locations | [Harbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin "Harbin"), [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRC "PRC") | | Coordinates | [45°46′42″N 126°33′23″E / 45\.77837°N 126.55626°E](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival&params=45.77837_N_126.55626_E_type:event) | | Years active | 1963–present | | Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival | | |---|---| | [Traditional Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters "Traditional Chinese characters") | 哈爾濱國際冰雪節 | | [Simplified Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters "Simplified Chinese characters") | 哈尔滨国际冰雪节 | | Transcriptions | | | [Standard Mandarin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Chinese "Standard Chinese") | | | [Hanyu Pinyin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin "Hanyu Pinyin") | Hā'ěrbīn Guójì Bīngxuě Jié | **[Harbin Ice and Snow World]()** ([Chinese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language "Chinese language"): 哈尔滨冰雪世界; [pinyin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin "Pinyin"): *Hā'ěrbīn Bīngxuě Shìjiè*) is an annual [winter festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_festival "Winter festival") that takes place in [Harbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin "Harbin"), [Heilongjiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang "Heilongjiang"), [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China "China"), and is now the largest ice and snow festival in the world. The festival includes the popular attraction **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界). Initially, the festival primarily attracted Chinese participants. Over time, however, it has grown into an international event and competition, drawing 3.56 million visitors and generating 266.17 billion [yuan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi "Renminbi") (\$36.71 billion) of revenue in 2025.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1) The festival includes the world's biggest [ice sculptures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculptures "Ice sculptures").[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-2) The festival exhibits open from late December to late February.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-3) While ice sculptures are erected throughout the city, there are two main exhibition areas: - **Sun Island** is a recreational area on the opposite side of the [Songhua River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River "Songhua River") from the city, which features an expo of enormous snow sculptures. - **Ice and Snow World** (冰雪大世界) is an area open in the afternoon and at night which features illuminated full size buildings made from blocks of 2–3' thick ice taken directly from the Songhua River. The park usually opens from late December to late February. In 1999, the first Ice and Snow World opened to public to celebrate the millennium. Each year the park has to be rebuilt with newly designed ice buildings and snow and ice sculptures. In 2025, the park covered 1.2 million square meters (120 hectares).[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-news2025-1) During the festival, there are ice lantern park touring activities held in many parks in the city. Winter activities during the festival include [Yabuli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabuli_Ski_Resort "Yabuli Ski Resort") [alpine skiing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_skiing "Alpine skiing"), winter-swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden. Harbin is located in [Northeast China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_China "Northeast China") and receives cold winter wind from [Siberia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia "Siberia"). The average temperature in summer is 21.2 °C (70.2 °F), and –16.8 °C (1.8 °F) in winter. Annual lows of -25 °C (–13 °F) are not uncommon.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-5) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg/250px-Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_World_2010.jpg) Ice sculpture erected in the 2010 Ice and Snow festival The festival originated in Harbin's traditional ice lantern show and garden party that takes place in winter, which began in 1963. It was interrupted for a number of years during the [Cultural Revolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution "Cultural Revolution"), but has since been resumed when an annual event at Zhaolin Park was announced on January 5, 1985.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6) In 2001 the Harbin Ice Festival was merged with [Heilongjiang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang "Heilongjiang")'s International Ski Festival and got its new formal name, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-chinanews.com.cn_2024_e459-7) In 2007, the festival featured a [Canadian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada "Canada") themed sculpture, in memory of Canadian doctor [Norman Bethune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Bethune "Norman Bethune"). It was awarded a [Guinness World Record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Record "Guinness World Record") for the world's largest snow sculpture: 250 metres long, 28 feet (8.5 m) high, using over 13,000 cubic metres of snow. The composition consisted of two parts: the "[Niagara Falls](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls "Niagara Falls")" and the "crossing the [Bering Strait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait "Bering Strait")" (the latter depicting the migration of the [First Nations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada "First Nations in Canada")). In 2014, the festival celebrated its 30th anniversary with the theme "50-Year Ice Snow, Charming Harbin". Various fairs, competitions and expos were held from December 20, 2013 to February 28, 2014.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-8)[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-9) In 2015, the 31st Harbin Ice Snow Festival opened on January 5 and was themed "Ice Snow Harbin, Charming China Dreams around the world" with opening ceremony, firework show, ice lanterns, birthday parties, snow sculpture competitions and expos, as well as winter swimming, winter fishing, group wedding ceremony, fashion shows, concerts, ice sport games lasting from December 22, 2014 to early March 2015.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-10) 2019 Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival At the 35th annual festival held in 2019, the festival's most popular attraction, the Harbin Ice and Snow World, took up over 600,000 square meters and included more than 100 landmarks. It was made from 110,000 cubic meters of ice and 120,000 cubic meters of snow. The festival also included ice sculptures by artists from 12 different countries competing in the annual competition.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-:0-6) Celebrating its 36th year in 2020, this festival is presently viewed as one of the world's top winter celebrations, joining the ranks of the [Sapporo Snow Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapporo_Snow_Festival "Sapporo Snow Festival") in Japan, Canada's [Quebec Winter Carnival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Winter_Carnival "Quebec Winter Carnival") and Norway's [Holmenkollen Ski Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmenkollen_Ski_Festival "Holmenkollen Ski Festival"). In 2020, the sculptures were produced using roughly 220,000 cubic meters of ice blocks, all pulled from the nearby [Songhua River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River "Songhua River").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-11) In 2021, the festival did not take place in full capacity due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-12) The festival was also part of the cultural program of the [2009 Winter Universiade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Winter_Universiade "2009 Winter Universiade") and the [2025 Asian Winter Games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Asian_Winter_Games "2025 Asian Winter Games"). At the Asian Games, the cauldron was part of the festival's main plaza activities. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg/250px-Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harbin_Snow_and_Ice_festival_Sphinx.jpg) Ice sculpture of the [Great Sphinx of Giza](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza "Great Sphinx of Giza") erected for the 2010 festival [Swing saws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_saw "Swing saw") are used to carve ice into blocks, taken from the frozen surface of the [Songhua River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songhua_River "Songhua River").[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) [Chisels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel "Chisel"), [ice picks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pick "Ice pick") and various types of [saws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw "Saw") are then used by [ice sculptors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculptor "Ice sculptor") to carve out large scaled [ice sculptures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_sculpture "Ice sculpture"),[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-14) many of them intricately designed[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-coldestcity-13) and worked on all day and night prior to the commencement of the festival. Deionised water can also be used, producing ice blocks as transparent as glass to make clear sculptures rather than translucent ones.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-15) Multicoloured lights[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16) are also used to give colour to ice, creating variations on sculptured spectacles when lit up especially at night. Some ice sculptures made in previous years include: buildings and monuments of different architectural types and styles, figures including animals people and mythical creatures, slippery dips or ice slides and lanterns.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-17)[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-18) Apart from winter recreational activities available in [Harbin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin "Harbin"), these exquisitely detailed, mass-produced ice sculptures are the main draw card in attracting tourists around the world to the festival.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_note-icecity-16) - [![Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Moomen_in_Snew%2C_Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival_%283238489838%29.jpg/250px-Moomen_in_Snew%2C_Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival_%283238489838%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moomen_in_Snew,_Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival_$3238489838$.jpg "Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009") Moomins in Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2009 - 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[![Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0045.JPG/250px-%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0045.JPG)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E6%B0%B7%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C_Ice_Snow_World_IMG_0045.JPG "Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010") Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 - [![Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0066.JPG/250px-%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0066.JPG)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%E7%AC%AC%E5%8D%81%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%8A%E5%93%88%E5%B0%94%E6%BB%A8%E5%86%B0%E9%9B%AA%E5%A4%A7%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%80%81The_Eleventh_Harbin_Ice_Snow_World%E3%80%81IMG_0066.JPG "Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010") Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2010 - [![Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg/250px-Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tower_at_Harbin_Ice_and_Snow_Festival_2012.jpg "Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013") Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival 2013 - [![2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png/250px-2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Hong_Kong_Harbin_Winter_Festival_Saber-toothed_cat.png "2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat") 2014 Hong Kong Harbin Winter Festival Saber-toothed Cat - [Ice palace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_palace "Ice palace") 1. ^ [***a***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-news2025_1-0) [***b***](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_International_Ice_and_Snow_Sculpture_Festival#cite_ref-news2025_1-1) ["World's largest ice and snow theme park opens, igniting China's winter tourism fever"](https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/1218/c90000-20403839.html). *People's Daily*. 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