The best season for traveling to Harbin is from December to January of the following year. At this time, you can see the snow and ice scenery different from the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, although it is cold. In addition, the summer from July to September is definitely an ideal summer season for tourists.
Harbin's urban landscape with a combination of Chinese and Western styles, rugged and bold northern ethnic customs, and beautiful scenery make people linger. The annual Harbin Summer Concert, Ice Lantern Garden Party, Ice and Snow World and other large-scale activities show Harbin's profound cultural heritage. Harbin Polar Museum, Flood Control Memorial Tower, Confucian Temple, Gokurakuji, the majestic Hagia Sophia Church, Nikolai Church shrouded in mystery, Russian wooden houses with strange shapes, elegant and chic Gothic buildings, Russian-style Central Street, Xiaohong's former residence and more than 5 cultural and natural landscapes such as Northeast Forest Garden, Yabuli Ski Resort and Primitive Forest. Together with Jingbo Lake, Wudalianchi and Zhalong Nature Reserve around Harbin, it forms a unique tourist destination in northern China
(1) Harbin Flood Control Memorial Tower -
Harbin Flood Control Victory Memorial Tower, which was built on October 1, 1958 to commemorate the people of Harbin's victory over the "57-year catastrophic flood". It was designed by Bagis Zielev, a former Soviet designer, and Lee Kuan Yew, the second generation architect of Harbin Institute of Technology. The location of the tower was determined by Lu Qi 'en, then mayor of Harbin.
(2) Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival
The annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, which opens on January 5th every year, is the first international festival organized with ice and snow as its content in China. Every year, Harbin Ice and Snow Festival holds a large-scale winter swimming competition, and the scene is very spectacular. At that time, visitors can go to Harbin to see the beautiful scenery of the ice lanterns and snow sculpture, enjoy the ice and snow cultural evening, and take part in many ice and snow entertainment projects. Harbin Ice Lantern and snow sculpture Art have become one of the three wonders of ice and snow art in the world.
(3) Harbin Ice and Snow World
was founded in 1999. In order to welcome the Millennium celebration of China Century Tour, the Harbin Municipal Government gave full play to the advantages of Harbin's ice and snow resources and further developed its ideas, and grandly launched an unprecedented super-large ice and snow art boutique project. Harbin Ice and Snow World shows the unique charm of ice and snow culture and ice and snow tourism in Harbin, a famous northern city. Every winter, there are an endless stream of domestic and foreign tourists visiting here. Harbin Ice and Snow World is the world's largest outdoor super-large entertainment project with the theme of ice and snow. NationalGeographic in the United States, NHK in Japan, SBS in South Korea and other channels have special reports.
(4) Summer Concert in Harbin
Summer Concert in Harbin, China (hereinafter referred to as "Haxia Festival"), a national music event, is held every other year from August 6 to 15, lasting 1 days. The Summer Concert in Harbin, the original creation of Harbin people who love elegant art, has become the cradle of music artists with its grand scale and numerous stars. Now it has been sublimated into a local traditional music festival, a traditional music festival in China, and one of the "three major concerts" in China, thus establishing the status of Harbin as a famous music city. In 21, Harbin was recognized as "music city" by UNESCO Global Creative City Network.
(5) Harbin Sun Island -
Harbin Sun Island is located on the north bank of Songhua River in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, China. It is a wetland grassland scenic spot in Jiangmantan and a famous summer resort in China. It covers an area of 38 square kilometers and the protected area is 88 square kilometers. Harbin's famous scenic spots and national AAAAA-level tourist attractions. Regarding the origin of Harbin Sun Island, there have been two kinds of folk sayings: one is that it is a garden island, which looks like the sun, so it is called Sun Island; It is said that the slopes on the island are all clean and fine sand, which is particularly hot under the sunlight, so it is called Sun Island. Surrounded by rivers, the scenery is very beautiful. In spring, Yuan Ye is full of fragrant grass, green leaves and birds. The spring breeze blows, and tourists often linger if they drink alcohol; In summer, there are green grass, clear water and white sand, flowers and frogs. It is a good summer resort; Autumn, autumn is crisp, water and sky are one color, gold leaves return to the path, and red maple in the wilderness; In winter, thousands of miles are frozen, Wan Li snows, horse-drawn sledges, ice and snow sports, ice sculptures and snow sculptures make this ice and snow world more vibrant. The white tree hangs "It is suspected that the forest bloomed last night", and the flying snow brings people into the magnificent realm of "blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees", forming a beautiful and peculiar landscape. The different beautiful scenery in these four seasons constitutes a unique ecological and natural scenic spot, so Sun Island is known as "the scenery in the north is better than that in the south of the Yangtze River". In July, 29, Sun Island in Harbin, Little Paris in the East, was awarded "habitat scroll of honour award" by the United Nations, which is the only island park in Asia that won this honor.
(6) Yabuli Ski Resort
Yabuli Ski Resort is composed of Windmill Villa, State Sports Commission, Communications Villa, Daqingshan Ski Resort, Communication Villa, Yunding Villa, Haomen Park and Farmhouse, which is located in shangzhi city, eastern Heilongjiang Province, 193 kilometers away from Harbin and 12 kilometers away from Mudanjiang City. The highest peak is 1374.8 meters above sea level. The extreme minimum temperature here is -44℃, the average temperature is -1℃, the snow-covered period is 17 days, and the skiing period is nearly 15 days. The best skiing period here is from mid-November to late March of the following year. The facilities of Yabuli Ski Resort are always perfect. There are 11 elementary, middle and advanced ski trails, and its alpine ski trails are the longest in Asia. There is also a 5-kilometer-long circular cross-country trail and snowmobile and sleigh lanes in the ski resort, with 3 hanging chair ropeways, 3 towing ropeways and 1 handle ropeway. The ski resort also has many modern ski resort machinery and equipment such as snow machines, snow presses and snowmobiles. There are a number of hanging chair and traction ropeways on the snow trail, so skiers can take the ropeway from any place and slide all over the snow trail without taking off their skis.
(7) Central Street Pedestrian Street
Central Street was founded in 1898, originally called "China Street". In 1925, it was renamed "Central Street" and later developed into the most prosperous commercial street in Harbin. The street starts from Songhua River Flood Control Memorial Tower in the north and ends at Jingwei Street in the south. There are 71 European-style and European-like buildings in the whole street, and 13 municipal-level protected buildings with Renaissance, Baroque, eclecticism and modern styles are gathered, which is a rare architectural art corridor in China. It is one of the largest and longest pedestrian streets in Asia at present. The pedestrian street has a beautiful environment and is orderly. With its unique European style, rows of boutique commercial buildings, colorful leisure communities and colorful cultural life, it has become a beautiful landscape in Harbin. In 1986, the Harbin Municipal People's Government designated the Central Street Pedestrian Street as a protection street. On June 1, 1997, it became the first commercial pedestrian street in China. In 25, Central Street was awarded the "Model Award of China's Human Settlements" by the Ministry of Construction. In March, 28, Little Paris Oriental-Harbin Central Street was awarded the "United Nations Architecture Achievement Award" by the United Nations, which is the third architectural complex in China to win this honor. At the same time, Harbin Central Street was awarded the title of Architectural Art Museum by the state. In 29, Central Street was awarded the first batch of famous historical and cultural streets in China.
(8) St. Sophia Church
St. Sophia Church was founded in March 197, and was originally an embedded church of the Fourth Infantry Division in Eastern Siberia, Russia. In the same year, funded by Russian tea merchants, a fully wooden church was rebuilt on the basis of the embedded church. Rebuilt in 1932, it became the largest Orthodox church in the Far East, and is well-known at home and abroad for its exquisite architectural art and rich historical and cultural connotations. The church is magnificent and has a strong exotic atmosphere, which has become a unique landscape in Harbin; She has been through many storms and weather-beaten, which is a historical witness and an important relic of Russia's invasion of Northeast China. Harbin municipal government first-class protected buildings, the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in the State Council, are now Harbin Architectural Art Museum.
(9) St. alekseev's Church
St. alekseev's Church was originally an army church located in Gongzhuling. After the war between Japan and Russia, it moved to Harbin, and its location changed several times. In 1912, a wooden church was built here, and in 1935 it was changed to a masonry structure. Designed by Russian architect smirnoff Toftanovsky. Originally belonging to the orthodox church, it was transferred to the Catholic church in 198, and now it is called the church of our lady without dye.
(1) Site of the 731st Army of the Japanese Invaders
The Criminal Evidence Exhibition Hall of the 731st Army of the Japanese Invaders is located in the former headquarters building of the 731st Army, No.25 Xinjiang Street, Pingfang District, Harbin. After being renovated in Long Ta, it has been opened to the public as a basic exhibition. With a total area of 1,5 square meters, there are 15 exhibition halls, where a large number of graphic evidence, physical evidence and empirical evidence are used to accuse the 731 troops of the Japanese invaders of bloody crimes. Heilongjiang Radio and Television Tower Heilongjiang Radio and Television Tower-Long Ta, affiliated to Heilongjiang Radio and Television Bureau, is the second tallest steel tower in the world and the first in Asia with a height of 336 meters. Long Ta was rated as AAAA-level tourist scenic spot by National Tourism Administration. It is a comprehensive multifunctional tower integrating tourism, catering and entertainment, advertising communication, wireless communication and environmental meteorological monitoring.
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1. Visitors can buy down clothes and wool clothes locally, which are cheap, thick and cold-resistant. In addition, they can take a set of hats, scarves and gloves.
2. The temperature difference between indoor and outdoor in Northeast China is very large, and it is very easy to catch a cold, so it is best to bring medicines such as cold medicine.
3. In a cold and dry climate, your hands are prone to pricking and your lips are prone to chapping. You can't go wrong with lip balm or skin care products.
4. In Harbin, where the temperature is tens of degrees below zero, the shutter of a professional camera will not open due to freezing. Therefore, if you bring a professional camera, you must pay attention to the warmth of the machine.
-----------. In Harbin in the old days, there were a large proportion of foreign nationals, among whom Russian nationals accounted for the majority. The lifestyle and customs of foreigners have a certain influence on Harbin people's culture and eating customs. Harbin people used to eat big cakes (corn flour paste cakes) as their staple food. The original local residents like to eat big prickly heat, small rice and stew; Shandong people like to eat pasta and fish; Hebei people like to eat rice and drink sorghum rice porridge. Influenced by the dietary customs of ethnic minorities, Harbin people like to eat sticky cakes and sticky bean buns, "Leba" (a big bread), red sausage, etc., and like to drink "Su Bo Tang" (Russian red soup). Harbin culture
(1) Da Lieba
Bread, also known as Da Lieba, is a unique flavor food in Harbin. The big bread produced by Harbin Lin Qiu Company and Huameixi Restaurant has a history of 7 or 8 years. This kind of bread is round and weighs 5 Jin, which is the crown of bread. The taste is also fragrant, with traditional European flavor. The baked bread has crisp crust, soft inner pulp, unique flavor and is suitable for storage. It is a convenient food for all ages.
(2) red sausage
The most classic food in Harbin is red sausage and dried sausage. Sausage originally came from Russia, and the most common, famous and traditional sausage flavor is "Lidos" flavor-that is, garlic flavor, with excellent wine, coupled with "Gowasu" (Russian transliteration, Russian-style beverage, fermented with dried bread, similar in color to beer but slightly red, moderately sweet and sour, similar to acid), which is called a stick. Sausage can be sandwiched in Lebali, which is a major meat variety. Sausage can be eaten directly. If you hold it in your hand, it will be a little black! Don't panic, this is not dirty, but a thin layer of charcoal ash on the surface of sausage. Sausage is smoked with old fruit trees growing in Daxing 'anling. Smoked sausage, the surface will adhere to a layer of invisible fruit charcoal ash. When eating, you should also eat the epidermis, which is the real sausage flavor-that is, you should eat the coke flavor with a little Shan Ye!
(3) Pot-wrapped meat
Formerly known as "Pot-fried meat", it is an authentic ice city food, which comes from the hands of Zheng Xingwen, a special chef of Yin Du Xueying, a "riverside food ancestor" in Daotai Prefecture of Harbin. Because the wok is quickly fried with urgent fire, the wok is heated, and the juice is poured into the wok and soaked into the meat, so it is called "pot-fried meat". But the Russians pronounce the sound "explosion" as a bag. Over time, "pot-fried meat" becomes "pot-fried meat". If you want to eat authentic pot-wrapped meat, you can only eat it in Harbin. No matter in the streets or in the restaurant of the descendants of the ancestors of Binjiang, as long as you are an authentic Harbin chef, you can show you the "food culture" inherited by the Ice City for a hundred years.