The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in Northeast of China, celebrating its 35th year in 2019.
It is the world's biggest snow and ice festival. The festival, described as an “icy Disneyland”, features plenty of spectacular installations and activities. This year, workers and sculptors cover 600,000 square meters of land with gigantic ice castles and exquisite sculptures.
The real attractions are the festival's frosty artistic productions. The snow carving competition is held, where teams from around the world sculpt highly detailed creations out of hard-packed snow. Four million cubic feet of snow are carefully carved to create super-sized human faces, animals, an army of giant snowmen, frozen architectural feats, castles, replicas of iconic buildings and etc.
The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival was inspired by Chinese traditional lanterns, which were carved out of ice and illuminated by candles.
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