Zhaolin Park(Chinese:兆麟公园;pinyin:zhàolíngōngyuán) faces the beautiful Songhua River. Built in 1906, it has a long history. Owing to the unique climatic conditions, two distinct categories of natural beauties can be found in Zhaolin Park.
In summer, the green plants and colorful flowers make the park the countryside of the city. The tourists can not only do sightseeing by boat but also get a panorama on the 42-meter-high cable car. Other recreational facilities will also give the tourists the most enjoyment. There are many modern facilities such as fountain, rocks, flower bed, amusement ground, ice skating rink, children's paradise, golden fish hall and flower and bird garden, having full relaxing and amusing worth.
In winter, the park will become an icy world and a sea of lanterns. The famous Ice Lantern exhibitions take place in the Zhaolin Park every winter. The Harbin common people and ice-carving artists create all kinds of ice-carving works. Every year such as the ice tower, ice bridge, ice long corridor and ice pavilion and building and even the 12-year cycles are made with large ice. They even create on the frozen river surface or lake surface, once they created the West Lake in Hangzhou and the Temple of Heaven in Beijing and so forth and showed to all the visitors on the Ice Carving Festival. They decorated with lanterns and lamp pipes and there are colorful all kinds of ice lanterns everywhere, if you are there, you will feel like entering a colorful crystal world.
|