The 36th Longqing Gorge Ice Lantern Festival will light up Beijing again in this winter. Colorful lights, laser lights and ice lights embody the Olympic spirit and create a cultural atmosphere of snow and ice. The festival also incorporates popular elements such as anti-epidemic, astronauts, Huawei technology, etc. 350 ice lanterns, 200 pieces of ice and 100 pieces of snow sculptures will create an ice world.
This year, the festival creates a wonderful space of the Winter Olympics with the elements of the Winter Olympics as the core. The mascots are presented in the shape of ice sculptures to welcome everyone, which is refreshing. The colorful ice lanterns make the exhibition hall beautiful, and different colors bring a festive flavor. The creative design concept gives soul to the ice sculptures. The vivid white snow sculptures give people a surprise and add white purity to this winter.
Longqing Gorge is cold in winter and has a long freezing period. With this unique natural condition, Longqing Gorge has been holding the Ice Lantern Festival since 1987, which has become a traditional project of winter tourism in the capital.
The ice lantern exhibition area is located under the huge dam of the ancient city reservoir and between the two mountain gorges. The huge icicles formed by the natural seepage of water from the two mountains constitute a rare ice waterfall spectacle, which serves as the best natural background for the ice lantern exhibition area.
Over the past three decades, Longqing Gorge has cultivated a skilled and proficient team of ice lantern designers and carvers. With the purpose of seeking newness, beauty and wonder, they keep innovating in art, improving in technology and carving in craft, providing space for viewers of different levels, different ages and different appreciation interests.
From the parking lot to the commercial street, from the scenic gates to the Culture Square, from the ground to the sky, flower lanterns, tree lanterns, ice lanterns, ice sculptures, snow sculptures and the 10,000-meter Great Wall lights surrounding the mountains dress up Longqing Gorge into a dream-like magical world at night.
The beautiful Longqing Gorge Ice Lantern Festival brings visitors a lot of joy. Groups of ice lanterns and colored lanterns not only contain the rich wisdom and creativity of people, but also bring beauty to visitors. Together with the clever design of sound, light and electricity, Longqing Gorge's ice lantern art is full of charm.
Translated by LIU Yu
