Harbin Ice Lantern Art Explore

Ice lamp festival is a folk art which have been prospering based on northern china. Unique climate and geographical condition make Heilongjiang province become an origin of ice lamp, especially provincial capital Haerbin city is a cradle of ice and snow art. Ice lamp festival is well-known at home and abroad, enjoying its fame world-wide. According to resources written, Haerbin city has created and displayed a large scaled and organized ice lamp festival since 1963, people pick simple instrument like basins and tubs when they make ice lamps such as 1000 odds number of ice lamps and dozens of ice flowers based on traditional technology, then freeze them under natural circumstance, and display them in Zhao Lin Park at the time of Chinese new year's eve. Due to that, Zhao Lin Park got a historical title that it is a ice lamp initiating site. Contemporary Haerbin ice lamp festival mixed western and oriental cultures and is enhanced to a system art wherein saturated with group sculpturing, construction, gardening, mechanics and electronics. I completed this document with a clue from Haerbin ice lamp festival, by means of document research, picture analysis, and local survey, I tracked down the origin, historical background and timely demand, moreover, through detailed analysis of ice lamp works, I showed the startup of Haerbin ice lamp festival, context of its evolvement, and researched upon ice lamp art work's style and aesthetical value, thus, assessed and defined position and meaning of ice lamp works in folk art, along with relation to other genres of art. Ice lamp art already became a Haerbin's name brand and business opportunity, on another hand, the ice city's ice lamps not only heighten festival spree but also volatilize winter cultural life of northern Chinese people, nurturing people's sentiment, inveigling people who made it a rule to stay inside during winter to come out to cold and barely trodden street gardens and so on that they can appreciate their positive ways. besides,as ice lamp artic technology develops its quality year by year, so does its fame incessantly at home and abroad. This brought abundant economic and social benefit for Haerbin.