Wedding ceremony on ice

The group wedding ceremony on ice originated from the traditional group wedding. On January 20 in 1985, three young couples marked the festival's first on-ice weddings and when the message spread out, many newly-weds wanted to have such a ceremony. Since then, the wedding ceremony on ice has become one part of the annual Harbin International Snow and Ice Festival that young couples wish to take part in eagerly. So far, more than 800 couples have had their weddings on ice.

 Ice and snow banquet

After the opening of the first Harbin International Snow and Ice Festival, the first ice and snow cooking competition also began at the Jiangnanchun Restaurant, which lifted the curtain on Harbin's ice and snow food culture. In the recent years, many new dishes have come out and the makings of shapes of ice-and-snow banquets have developed in three-dimensional forms. Many guests can taste the featured culture of Harbin from the creative and mysterious ice-and-snow food.

 Sugarcoated hawthorn

On the streets of Harbin, you can find peddlers selling a kind of sugarcoated hawthorn as long as one meter. The candy-coated fruit looks fresh, and with colorful ribbons hung on the stick, sugarcoated hawthorns have become an aye-catching view on the street. Many people like to take photos with the sweet treats in the world of ice and snow. Now there are many variations to sugarcoated hawthorns, such as sugarcoated hawthorns, apples, bananas or Chinese dates of different lengths.

 A mixture of multiform architectures

More than a hundred years ago, the construction of the China Eastern Railway brought many Russians to Harbin. In 1922 when migration reached its peak there were 155,000 Russians living in Harbin among a total city population of less than 200,000. Of all the foreign buildings, the Russian style takes up a large proportion. On average, of about every 250 square meters of total floor area, one square meter is in Russian style.

In today's Harbin, many Russian-style architectures are still left and well preserved, such as Zhongyang Street, Gogol Street, the St. Sophia Church, and the Brass Cinema. All of them give us an authentic and vibrant Russian color of the city of Harbin.

 Zhongyang Street covered with dollars

First built in 1898, Zhongyang Street, initially named Chinese Street, was a street with Euro-style architectures on both sides. In 1924, Russian engineers presided over the street's reconstruction and covered the road surface with granite. It was said that each block of the stone cost more than one dollar, leading people in Harbin to call it the street covered with dollars.

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