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The Harbin Ice Lantern and Sculpture Festival runs from January to
March each year. Harbin is in Manchuria - the most northern part of
China and just across the border from Russian Siberia.
Ice sculptures - made from blocks of ice chainsawed from the Songhua
River - have represented such things as castles, towers, the Statue
of Liberty, the Great Wall of China, and an onion-domed Russian
church. The sculptures fill the city square and glow from the neon
tubes of purple, pink, blue and green that shine from inside (See
picture).
Competitors use knives and saws to carve large blocks of ice into
animals, mythical figures, buildings, or copies of artworks. Teams
of sculptors come from as far away as Britain, Malaysia and the
United States. |
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