#91 Teaching at Taizhou Teachers College- Ice and Snow in Haerbin-Ice and Snow Festival

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May 11th 2008

Published: May 11th 2008

This is the second of two blogs featuring my visit to Haerbin/Harbin in Heilongjiang Province in the NE of China. As previously stated, the main attraction for me to venture into these frozen realms during the coldest Chinese winter in 50 years, was to experience the Haerbin/Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, a series of gala events involving ice and snow carving art. The Ice and Snow Fe... Read Full Entry

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Susan Storr

Sue Treadie

This blog was started in 2006 when I embarked on a new life adventure teaching English in China. It was a wonderful, enriching and enlightening experience. Many of you came on this journey with me. For those of you who are searching for more meaning and satisfaction in your life and feel that teaching languages overseas might fit the bill, I enthusiastically encourage you to take up the challenge as I did nine years ago. You will never regret it. In fact you will probably say "Why didn't I do this years ago?" I then began a journal of my journey home to Australia- the long way round! U... full info

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Snow Sculpture Festival, Sun Island 6

Where do you start on a project this size? A closer look at the previous "sculpture in the making"

Snow Sculpture Festival 7

Celebrating the upcoming Year of the Rat.

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Drink and be merry. One of a series of sculptures along one of the main avenues which apparently retells a famous legend. It was not clear what the nationality of the sculptors of this entry were, so can tell you no more!

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Promoting the World Winter University Games to be held in Harbin in 2009. Finishing touches were still being made to it

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Completing the interior decor of an Italian style coffee shop. No doubt in time for Chinese New Year celebrations in 3 weeks!

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Let's first look at some of the gigantic sculptures, then we can work our way down to individual artists' pieces. Greek mythology carved in snow. Some of these sculptures were enormous! Remember to enlarge the photos for more detail!

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Legendary snow sculpture. Sorry couldn't find out what legend!

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Napoleon "immortalized" (at least temporarily!) in snow. One of the popular French entries.

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A distant view of the largest sculpture. It formed the backdrop to the "entertainment area where a variety of snow activities could be indulged in. It is actually the whole sculpture of which the earlier photo of the "flowing hair" was a part.

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A closer look begins to reveal the woman's head in the centre of the photo.

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A close up of the detail of the right hand side of the same sculpture! Someone seems to have had a bit too much of a good thing!

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Hard to believe this is sculpted from snow!

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Zhende in entirety. Almost my favourite sculpture, so there's a few of her!

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Zhende, a little bit closer.

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Zhende up really close.

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Zhende under lights.

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Another of the previous sculptures under lights.

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Getting a bit smaller, an unknown (to me!) Russian Legend.

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Despite the impressiveness of the large scale sculptures, I particularly enjoyed wandering the small laneways lined with individual, small-scale entries. Each artist was originally given about a 2m cube shaped block of snow as their starting point. Deceptively simple at first glance, I was impressed with the structural strength and balance but delicateness of many of these smaller entries. What do you think?

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Dragons in battle. Another for my friend Marais!

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"Dreaming at sunset". There were a number of "fantasy" type themes.

12th May 2008

Hans
Hans J. Schneider

What a beautiful Winter Wonderland!
Thank you for sharing your visit to Harbin. It has inspired me to make sure to visit next winter, and brave the infamous cold of the region. The photos are special, and you have captured the spirit, why the winter-ice-festival of Harbin has such a renowned reputation around the world. Thanks for braving the frigid weather of China's winter of 2008, to bring us your memories of "Winter in Harbin".

21st May 2008

John
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Tempted
Harbin, with the Russian influence and colored lights ice festival does look very tempting, I must admit. Beautiful pictures of the ice, but you look sooooo cold! Maybe I'll just wait until they get an ice festival in Brisbane......John

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