The Ice Lantern Festival is a regional festival, usually in the first month. It often overlaps with the Lantern Festival and can be regarded as a part of the Lantern Festival in these areas. With the growing prosperity of the Ice Lantern Festival, although it is still confined to the northern region, its influence has spread to the whole country and even the whole world. The so-called ice lamp is a lamp made of ice. Its making method includes freezing and ice sculpture. Freezing means filling molds of different shapes with water and freezing them outdoors. When the water in the middle of the mold is not completely frozen, take it back indoors, pour out the remaining water, take out the ice shell, and light a candle in the middle to become an ice lamp. Ice sculpture is an ice sculpture carved by stacking ready-made ice cubes, and then it becomes a light-mapped ice sculpture through lighting and decoration. [ 1]?
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The Ice Lantern Festival is mainly popular in Northeast China with a cold winter climate and has a history of hundreds of years. Xiqing's Notes on Heilongjiang in the Qing Dynasty recorded: "Shangyuan, the city (Qiqihar) was decorated with lights for five nights. Carved five or six feet of ice for the birthday lamp, with two torches in the middle, which looks like crystal. " It can be seen that the Qing Dynasty Ice Lantern Festival. After the Qing Dynasty, as the Qing regime entered the Central Plains, ice lanterns were introduced into Beijing. The Story of Yanjing's Years Old says: "The smart people in the city are frozen into utensils and grow wheat seedlings, which are gorgeous but not extravagant, simple but not vulgar, and very impressive." However, due to climatic reasons, the Ice Lantern Festival is still dominated by the northeast. In the history of ice lanterns, the earliest shapes were mostly form-dependent. Later, the shapes were greatly enriched, including Frost Dragon Lantern, Ice Lion Lantern, Ice Flower Lantern, Ice Peacock Lantern, Ice Tower Lantern and Ice City Lantern. At the Northeast Ice Lantern Festival, all kinds of ice lanterns and ice sculptures complement each other, and tourists are woven, becoming a world-renowned "ice wonder". With the development of history and social progress, folk ice lanterns are becoming more and more colorful. People make molds of various images in advance, and fill them with clear water or colored water mixed with dyes. The frozen ice lamps are crystal clear and colorful. There are dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, lanterns, cabbage lanterns, lotus lanterns, tower lanterns, cylindrical lanterns, square lanterns and so on. From the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month to the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, there are several ice lanterns in the yard of rural farmers, which glow during the day for people to watch; The night is brightly lit and there is a peaceful atmosphere. This simple and easy-to-make ice lamp brings a lot of joy to people. [ 1]?
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Folk Ice Lantern Festival is held during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. Generally, the ice lanterns made by a family are placed in their own yard and are not displayed centrally. With the improvement of rural people's living standards and the expansion of cultural and recreational activities, there are also ice lantern making competitions in rural squares or entertainment places. This kind of activity adds a rich festive atmosphere to the countryside. Han, Manchu, Hui, Korean and other ethnic groups in Heilongjiang like to make ice lanterns. Before and after the Spring Festival, the ice and snow and the extremely low temperature prepared natural conditions for making ice lanterns. When villagers make ice lanterns, they not only inject water into the ice system at home, but also carve thick ice cubes in the glaciers and take them home. After careful carving, they make artistic ice lanterns, such as flying wings, giant pandas, red-crowned cranes and longevity stars, which are vivid and interesting. Because the ice lantern is filled with colored light bulbs, it looks particularly bright and beautiful at night. [2]?
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The Ice Lantern Festival is held in the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The lampshade is made of ice with candles or electric lights in the middle. As a decorative work of art, it has a history of thousands of years. During the festival, there are ice garden parties, ice lantern carving competitions, and exhibitions of various ice lanterns, such as ice dragon lanterns, ice lion lanterns, ice tower lanterns and ice peacock lanterns, which attract many foreign tourists. Modern Ice Lantern Festival has also set up colored lights and lanterns of various shapes, and imported some exotic colored lights from Korea, such as snowflake lights, water drop lights and starry sky lights, which make the lighting effect at night more prominent.