What are the famous traditional folk festivals in Harbin?

Abstract: The most distinctive festival in Harbin is the Ice and Snow Festival in winter. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is rich in entertainment activities, including thrilling ice sleds, ice sails sliding on the ice, such as skating in no man's land, and spinning ice monkeys-ice gyroscopes; There is also a winter swimming that challenges nature, which makes people experience the "hot feeling" in Harbin's ice and snow. In addition, there are the Harbin Beer Festival held in July on the Gregorian calendar, the annual national music festival "Haxia Festival", the Wuhua Mountain autumn season held in September on the Gregorian calendar, and the Gokurakuji Temple Fair in Harbin on the eighth, eighteenth and 28th of the fourth lunar month, all of which make people feel the fiery warmth of Harbin as an "ice city". First, large-scale special festivals in Harbin.

1, Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival

Harbin Ice and Snow Festival is held from 1 February to1month, which is the first regional festival with ice and snow as its content in China. Harbin Ice and Snow Festival holds a large-scale winter swimming competition every year. At that time, visitors can not only see the beautiful scenery of ice lanterns and snow sculpture, but also enjoy the ice and snow cultural evening and participate in various ice and snow entertainment projects.

Time: 65438+ February of the following year to 65438+ 10.

Location: Harbin, the specific location is different every year.

2. Harbin Mulan Popsicle Festival

The Ice Rolling Festival is a local folk custom with a long history. On the night of Lantern Festival, local people light candles and put them on the river to make various figures. Men, women and children will roll on the frozen river. It is said that this can sweep away troubles, disasters, good luck and happiness. This custom originated from an old legend. A long time ago, the daughter of Songhuajiang unicorn fell in love with a young fisherman here, married and lived a happy and quiet life. This matter was noticed by the unicorn. On the first day of the lunar new year, the one-horned dragon used its one-horned horn to talk about the river and recapture the dragon girl, trying to punish young people and villagers with the plague. Dragon girl had a dream for her sweetheart, telling the young man to roll on the ice on the fifteenth night of the first month, with nine rolls on the left and nine rolls on the right to avoid the plague. So on the night of the Lantern Festival, the whole village rolled on the ice and really escaped the disaster. The villagers are afraid that the one-horned dragon will retaliate again, and they roll on the ice on the fifteenth night of the first month every year, gradually forming a unique folk custom that continues to this day.

Time: the fifteenth day of the first month.

Venue: Mulan County, Harbin

3. Harbin Concert

The Summer Concert in Harbin, China, referred to as "Haxia Festival" for short, is a national musical event, which is held every two years for 10 days. Harbin Summer Concert is the original creation of Harbin people, with a large scale and many stars. It has become the cradle of music artists and one of the "three major concerts" in China, thus establishing Harbin's position as a famous music city.

Time: August 6th to 15th of the lunar calendar.

Location: Harbin, the specific location is different every year.

4. Harbin Beer Festival

Harbin is the origin of the first barrel of beer in China and has the deepest beer culture in China. The binge drinking style of Harbin people eclipsed the Bavarians at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany; All kinds of ice city beauties and Nadasha from Russia have become a dazzling landscape at Oktoberfest. Harbin International Beer Festival attracts worldwide attention for its classicality and modernity, passion and romance.

Time: July every year

Venue: Ice and Snow World

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Although it is a traditional festival in China, the passion in the bones of Ice City people has turned it into a national carnival. From the afternoon before the Dragon Boat Festival, tens of thousands of citizens converged on the streets along the Yangtze River, such as Central Street, and flocked to the Songhua River. People are wearing flowers on their heads, masks on their faces and souvenirs of the Dragon Boat Festival in their hands. They are crowded and laughing in the street. Many people set up tents by the Songhua River and reveled all night. Until the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival comes, people will take mugwort leaves home one after another after watching the dragon boat race on the Songhua River.

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Venue: Central Street (main location)

6. Enjoy the autumn festival in Wuhua Mountain, Harbin.

Enjoy the autumn festival in Wuhua Mountain in Harbin, return to nature with the theme of "Celebrating Harvest" and "Appreciating Autumn", and visit Wuhua Mountain in autumn, which is held in late September every year. During the activity, relying on the rich tourism resources such as mountains, rivers and breeding bases in various districts and counties (cities), special activities such as Red Leaf Festival, Flower Festival, Mountaineering Festival and Picking Festival will be carried out. Organize the general public and tourists to carry out healthy mountaineering activities, advocate the concept of healthy living, get close to nature, return to nature and enjoy the interest of Shan Ye. Hot spots of autumn tour in Wuhua Mountain in Harbin include Jinlong Mountain, Luxiang Mountain, Fenghuang Mountain, Longfeng Mountain, Yabuli, Jiguan Mountain, Huazi and Pingshan Scenic Area.

Time: held in late September every year.

Venue: Yingjie Scenic Spot, Dover, Bin County

7. Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival

Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival has successfully held eight China-Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival since it was founded on 20 12, which is an important tourism festival in Harbin. Harbin Songhua River Wetland Festival mainly relies on the wetland scenic spots such as Sun Island, Hulan Estuary Wetland Park, Volga Manor Wetland, Jinhewan, Baiyupao and Binjiang Wetland, and presents 16 excellent wetland tourist routes in three combinations. During the activities, we will carry out wetland hiking tour, wetland eco-tour, free wetland tour, wetland wedding, wetland scenery photography contest, wetland go on road trip, summer camp, sailing show, Songhua River night tour and other activities. Let citizens and tourists fully feel the magnificence, warmth and romance of Songjiang Wetland.

Time: June 5 to June 20 every year.

Venue: Songhua River Wetland, Harbin

8. Harbin Tulip Festival

From May to June every year, when 32 varieties and hundreds of thousands of tulips in Harbin Forest Botanical Garden bloom in unison, the park will hold a tulip viewing festival to let everyone enjoy tulips of different colors. Tulip Garden covers an area of 4 hectares, mainly introducing and planting rare Dutch flowers such as tulips, daffodils and hyacinthus orientalis, and planting early spring flowers such as plum blossoms and azaleas. At present, dozens of tulip varieties have been introduced and nearly hundreds of thousands of tulips have been planted. Tulips of different colors can be enjoyed at the same time in the garden, which is also called a beautiful landscape in the botanical garden. The unique windmill makes this place unique and exotic. The tulips in full bloom are precious and brilliant, "beautiful and breathtaking".

Time: mid-May to June

Venue: Harbin Forest Botanical Garden

9. Heilongjiang International Ski Festival

Content: The first ski festival was founded on February 5th, 1998+65438, sponsored by Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government and Harbin Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by Heilongjiang Provincial Tourism Bureau, Harbin Tourism Bureau and Yabuli Ski Center. The opening ceremony was held in Yabuli Ski Center, which is the first tourism festival with skiing as its content in China. The guests were mainly invited by the news media. The first ski festival created three firsts, namely, the first international ski festival in China, the first ski tourism professional committee and the first ski club. The Ski Festival echoes the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, implements the ice and snow linkage, highlights the skiing tourism in Heilongjiang, and initially establishes the image of Heilongjiang-China Ski Resort.

Time: It starts around 65438+February every year.

Venue: Harbin, Heilongjiang Province

10, Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition

Harbin International Ice Sculpture Competition, one of the three major ice sculpture competitions in the world, was held in Harbin Ice and Snow World, the largest outdoor ice and snow theme park in the world. Ice sculpture artists from all over the world have carefully carved 387 ice sculpture works, and conveyed their feelings through this solidified artistic expression. Not only Harbin people like and love ice, but also tourists at home and abroad like to watch the making process of ice sculpture, just like a work of art handed down from generation to generation. It is not only popular after molding, but also has mysterious and unique charm in the production process.

Time: 65438+ every year1October 6th.

Venue: Harbin, Heilongjiang Province

1 1, China-Russia Expo

The second China-Russia Expo (26th Harbin Fair) was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Government of Heilongjiang Province, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. It is the only national mechanism exhibition in China that cooperates with other countries. With the active promotion of the Chinese and Russian governments, the China-Russia Expo has become an important platform for the two countries to build the "Belt and Road" and comprehensively deepen their strategic cooperative partnership. The theme of the exhibition is "Docking and Cooperation-New Opportunities for the Silk Road Economic Belt". The main exhibition area of the Expo is 86,000 square meters. Nearly 10,000 overseas merchants from five continents 103 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, and the accumulated foreign trade, foreign investment, foreign trade and other foreign-related contracts amounted to 2.468 billion US dollars. Signed 26 domestic economic and technological cooperation projects/kloc-0, with a total contract value of 35.8 billion yuan. During the Expo, Chinese and Russian government departments and institutions held 13 special business activities, covering local cooperation, the Far East leaping development zone, Vladivostok Freeport, electromechanical, forestry, cross-border e-commerce, mining, customs, technical specifications, tourism, youth, engineering technology, think tanks and other fields.

12, Harbin World Agricultural Expo

Sponsored by the municipal government and undertaken by China Co., Ltd., Hua Hong Group and Harbin Ice City Exhibition Co., Ltd., it is held regularly in our city every year. 20 15 agricultural fair is based on the theme of "green food-new consumption, new economy", sponsored by Heilongjiang provincial government and Harbin municipal government, and integrates exhibition resources such as Harbin World Agricultural Expo, Heilongjiang Golden Autumn Grain Trade Cooperation Fair and China Heilongjiang Beidahuang International Agricultural Machinery Expo. The Expo is divided into 12 exhibition areas, including green organic food, scientific and technological support, "Internet+agriculture", livestock products, financial services, time-honored food, logistics supply chain, brand channel construction, famous food from other provinces, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, foreign fine food, agricultural machinery, etc. There are 1058 exhibitors. During the exhibition, the 2nd China Modern Food Industry Development Strategy Summit and 20 15 Heilongjiang Green Organic Food International Forum, 20 15 Heilongjiang Golden Autumn Grain Trade Cooperation Fair, Heilongjiang Green Organic Food Industry Development Potential Promotion Conference, China-Korea Kimchi Culture Festival and other activities were held.

13, Harbin International Equipment Manufacturing Expo

Harbin "Expo Production" has been successfully held for 14, with 4,000 well-known enterprises from more than 20 countries, including Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, South Korea and Japan, as well as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan Province and Macau, and more than 10 provinces and cities nationwide, showing the specialization and internationalization of Expo production. It has received more than 270,000 professional visitors at home and abroad, and the total transaction volume of exhibition agreements and contracts has reached 26 billion yuan, which reflects the role of "Expo" as a trade platform for equipment manufacturing industry and has attracted the attention of representatives and merchants from all walks of life at home and abroad. In 20 15, more than 400 exhibitors participated in the Expo, and * * * exhibited nearly 10,000 products in 10 category. Enterprise products cover more than 10 countries and regions and more than 10 domestic provinces and cities. It involves 3D printing at home and abroad, industrial robots and high-end manufacturing intelligent equipment, scientific and technological innovation in internet plus and universities, energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy technologies, new materials and new energy automobile enterprises.

14, Harbin International Auto Show

The international trade exhibition co-sponsored by Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government, Harbin Municipal People's Government, China Automobile Industry Association, China Automotive Engineering Society and Harbin Great Wall International Exhibition Co., Ltd. is held regularly every year. After seventeen years' development, Harbin International Auto Show has become one of the "Top Ten Auto Show in China" and "Top 50 Famous Auto Show in China". 20 15 "Harbin international auto show" adheres to the orientation of "internationalization, specialization, branding and characteristics", takes "green, environmental protection, science and technology and fashion" as the theme, takes activating the automobile market as the starting point, serves automobile manufacturers and stimulates domestic demand as the purpose, spreads automobile culture, meets consumers' demand for car purchase, and displays all kinds of automobiles, parts and auto supplies. The exhibition area reached 1.25 million square meters, and the exhibition scale reached a record high. * * * 462 automobile manufacturers, spare parts manufacturers and automobile aftermarket manufacturers from * * * 12 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, and 95 vehicle brands and 85 1 car participated in the exhibition, bringing together top-class world famous cars and all domestic new cars.

15, Harbin International Fashion Week

Sponsored by Harbin Municipal People's Government, China Fashion Association and China Fashion Designers Association. Taking "cutting-edge fashion" as the feature, the development strategy of "32 1" is established, that is, to build three platforms: the growth platform of cutting-edge designers, the innovation platform of fashion industry and the interactive platform of citizens' fashion experience; Create two channels, namely, the channel of economic and trade exchange with China, the channel of using the Russian clothing new fashion release base to face the domestic fashion industry; Landing a big show, creating a 365-day uninterrupted show, creating a never-ending fashion week, and revitalizing Harbin's status as a fashionable and romantic city. 20 15 Harbin International Fashion Week, with the orientation of "positioning the forefront, four distinct seasons, focusing on winter and autumn, and 45 degrees north latitude", held 33 first shows, which lasted for 5 days. The level of participating designers and the scale of the show are second to none in fashion week at home and abroad. More than 80 Chinese and foreign fashion designers from 20 countries and 100 domestic and foreign model rookies will hold dozens of fashion debuts in Xicheng Red Square Art Museum and Hongbo Exhibition Shopping Plaza. At the same time, they will hold the first invitation exhibition of Qingxuan Contemporary Art Salon, the international forum of fashion meeting art, the China autumn and winter fashion alliance forum and the inauguration ceremony of the international designer workstation, and the 20 16 China cutting-edge design award and many other activities at the Red Square Art Museum.

16, Harbin Cold Expo

Hosted by the Harbin Municipal Government, jointly organized by the Harbin Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Harbin Great Wall International Exhibition Co., Ltd., it is scheduled to be held in the exhibition hall of Harbin International Convention and Exhibition Sports Center around 65438+ 10 every year. As a carefully cultivated platform for foreign cooperation and exchange in Harbin, the Cold Expo has highlighted the unique characteristics of a cold city with 45 north latitude since the transformation from 20 13. With the aim of integrating the advantages of the Ice and Snow Festival, developing the city's "cold economy" and connecting the cold city with the development achievements of the Belt and Road countries and regions, on the basis of the transformation of the original "Ice Expo", the scale, specialization and branding have been initially realized. The theme of the 20 15 Cold Expo is "New Opportunities for Cold Economy to Join the Silk Road Belt", with a total exhibition area of 36,000 square meters (the maximum indoor capacity of the venue) and more than 800 exhibitors. More than 80,000 people attended the exhibition. Held seminars and exchange docking activities for 5 times, and signed 32 industrial cooperation projects with the Ice and Snow Festival, with an investment of 43.55 billion yuan and foreign capital of 550 million yuan, breaking the historical record.

17, Buddha bathing festival, also known as Buddha's birthday, Buddha's birthday festival, etc. It is the eighth day of the fourth lunar month every year, which is the birthday of Buddha Sakyamuni. According to legend, when the Buddha was born, it rained heavily to bathe him. Therefore, in order to commemorate the birth of the Buddha, Buddhism held a grand bathing ceremony on the same day, and bathed the Buddha with perfume through religious ceremonies such as chanting and burning incense. According to legend, on this day, I went to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, asking for Buddha's blessing, so as to make money and avoid disaster. Harbin holds a Buddhist bathing ceremony every year from 2 am to 3 am on the eighth day of April. About 3,000-5,000 Buddhists took part in the activities in Gokurakuji. In Gokurakuji, from the seventh day of April to the eighth day, the mountain gate is not closed day and night. On that day, about 30,000 people entered the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha. In addition, the 18th and 28th lunar calendar are the Christmas birthdays of Taoist immortals. Due to the lack of Taoist temple in our city and the saying that Buddhism and Taoism are not separated, it is the custom of our city to burn incense and worship Buddha in Gokurakuji these two days. About 15000 people entered the temple on April/8, and about 10000 people entered the temple on April 28. The annual "Buddha Bath Festival" lasts for four days, namely, the seventh day of the fourth lunar month, the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, the eighteenth lunar month and the twenty-eighth lunar month.

Time: April 7th night, April 8th, April 18th, April 28th.

Address: Jileju, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province

Second, the ice and snow movement in Harbin

1 skiing

Harbin has the largest ski resorts in Asia-Yabuli Ski Resort, Erlongshan Ski Resort, Window of Europe and Asia Ski Resort and dozens of well-equipped large ski resorts. It is a paradise for skiers.

Step 2 skate

The cold winter gives Harbin a natural skating advantage. As long as the open space is filled with water, it will freeze into a solid skating rink the next morning. Ice rinks and ice hockey halls can be seen everywhere in Harbin, which is an exciting sport that roller skaters can't experience. The feeling of riding roller skates on the ice is absolutely unforgettable.

3.ice sledge

Playing ice sledge is similar to sliding slide, but the difference is that the sliding friction and speed of ice sledge are smaller. There are two ways to play ice sledge. If the ice track of the sledge is on a steep slope, you don't have to run, you can play while sitting or lying down; If you play on the flat ice track, you should first run with your hands, then put the plow on your chest and lie forward on the ice track. The plow will slide forward with people, just like rowing on the water, which is very natural and unrestrained. There are also dog ice sledges and horse-drawn sledges, which can be played in Sun Island in winter.

4. Ice sail

It is a unique sport in Heilongjiang. It is very similar to sailing, except that the sports ground is moved to the ice, which is very fast and exciting. When you arrive in Harbin, you must experience the pleasure of sailing on the Songhua River.

5, horse-drawn sledge

Horse-drawn sledge is safe and comfortable, fun and exciting, and its speed is self-controlled. It flies in the snow field in a horse-drawn sleigh, such as a warrior on the ice field and a magic soldier on the snow field.

6. Winter swimming

Harbin has one of the bravest sports activities in winter, and that is winter swimming. Brave people, swimming in the Songhua River, which has been frozen for 90 years, are really shocking. On the main channel of Songhua River, which is covered with ice about one meter thick, they chiseled out an ice slot swimming pool with a length of several tens of meters and a width of several meters, and fought in it in swimsuits, and what they got was the joy of conquering nature and strong physique. Every year during the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, a large-scale winter swimming competition is held, and the scene is both lively and spectacular. In recent years, domestic brother provinces and cities and foreign swimmers are also competing to show their skills in the Songhua River ice water.

7.moraine stone

Ice surface (gá), also known as ice monkey and ice gyro, is a toy made of wood or iron and similar to a gyro. It stands upside down on the ice, whipping it with a whip, making it turn around and hum, which is very interesting. It's an ice game for Harbin people. Foreign tourists, especially children, must try it for themselves. The spinning top on the ice will definitely bring you great happiness.