From 199 1, Jilin holds the "Wu Song Ice and Snow Festival" every year from 1 month/day to 1 month 30.
Jilin in winter is a paradise for ice and snow sightseeing. The Songhua River, which flows through Jilin city, is cold but not frozen, with green willows and frost and snow on both sides, forming a beautiful rime.
Jilin Rime Ice and Snow Festival is an activity that integrates tourism, economy and trade based on the rime ice and snow landscape, and it is a creation to further tap the ice and snow resources to attract people, logistics and information flow. The Rime Ice and Snow Festival with the theme of Rime has become a unique festival in northern China. During the Rime Ice and Snow Festival, economic and trade departments and manufacturers also held various types of product introductions, negotiations, exhibitions and orders.
The activities of the Rime Ice and Snow Festival are colorful and have their own characteristics. Before the festival, ice and snow began to flourish, and tens of thousands of cubic meters of ice and snow were used in the streets along the river to build a "street of ice and snow".
Sculptors and folk craftsmen carved exquisite ice sculptures and magnificent snow sculpture, while architects used nearly one meter thick Songhua Lake ice to build "ice crystal pavilions" with different styles. Ice sculptures, snow sculpture and rime make Jilin a fantastic world. During the day, tourists can ski, sledge and drive snowmobiles at Songhua Lake Ski Resort, the largest city ski resort in China. Sail on Songhua Lake, ride a horse-drawn sleigh and watch a winter tour. The "Three Lights in Jilin" at night is even more fascinating. The rough style of Jilin ice lantern about the east; Jilin Lantern is both ancient and elegant, and has modern characteristics. The style of Xueliuhe lamp in Hanjiang River is unique. Thousands of river lanterns go upstream, forming a pool of river lanterns, a spectacular scene of a city that never sleeps, reflecting the ice lanterns and colored lanterns being dragged by floats on the shore, embellishing the Songhua River in winter into a moving galaxy.
Jilin City is also a good place for business travel during the Rime Ice and Snow Festival. At the first rime ice and snow festival, Chinese and foreign guests from nine countries and regions, such as the United States, Japan, Hongkong and Taiwan Province, attended 6 1 exhibition in rime ice and snow city, watched the rime ice and snow scenery, and signed economic and trade technical agreements 1 17, with a trade turnover of nearly 500 million yuan.
During the annual Rime Ice and Snow Festival in Jilin, China, ice lanterns, lantern garden parties, river lanterns, fireworks and float parades, large-scale economic and trade fairs, trade fairs, order fairs, ice and snow sports meetings, Northeast Yangko performances, Manchu and Korean folk festivals, and Kanto-style food festivals also attracted tourists from all directions. Snow willows on the riverbank, Yushu Qionghua, these activities have brought people magical colors and endless joy.