Harbin - A -30°C Winter City In Northern China | Smart Travels
Scoot sent us on an adventure to Harbin - a city in China where the temperatures dip below -30°C in winter and average a 20°C in summer.
It’s a popular destination with the Chinese but remains mostly untouched by international tourism. The best part is that it is a non-stop direct flight at a very affordable prices!
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Dea vacation at Harbin winter at -31°celcius
So damn cold winter at Harbin, a tour at Shanghai and Harbin, Volga Manor, i am Dea vacation at Volga Manor
What to wear in -30degrees! Harbin City, China
We took a trip up north to the cold icy city of Harbin! ol Russian lain lukim mipla na tok, why would you come here?! go to your beautiful sunny homes for holiday! lol!
For the Icy cold experience of -20degrees...but I realized once you have experienced that kinda cold, the cold in the south ain't nothing!
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Harbin's Saint Sophia Cathedral (China)
The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom of God or Saint Sophia Cathedral / 聖索菲亞教堂 / Софийский собор в Харбине in Harbin is a former Russian Orthodox church located in the central district of Daoli, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.
St. Sophia Orthodox Cathedral was built in 1907 after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1903, which connected Vladivostok to northeast China. The Russian No.4 Army Division arrived in this region just after Russia's loss to the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). St. Sophia Church was built and completed of timber in March, 1907 as part of a plan to reconsolidate the confidence of the army by building an imposing spiritual symbol.
In 1921, Harbin had a population of 300,000, including 100,000 Russians. The church was expanded and renovated from September 23, 1923, when a ceremony was held to celebrate the laying of the cornerstone, to its completion on November 25, 1932, after nine years. The present-day St. Sophia Church was hailed as a monumental work of art and the largest Orthodox church in the Far East.
According to Harbin municipal religious and Daoli district archives, Fr. Fotiy Huo Desheng was the ninth rector of St. Sophia Church of Harbin.
The church is located on the corner of Toulong Street (Toulong jie) and Zhaolin Street (Zhaolin jie). It stands at 53.3 meters (175 ft) tall, occupies an area of 721 square meters (0.18 acres), and is the perfect example of Neo-Byzantine architecture. The main structure is laid out like a cross with the main hall topped with a huge green-tipped dome. Under the bright sun, the church and the square area it stands on look quite like Red Square in Moscow.
Following the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in mainland China in 1949 by the victorious Communists, who ended all Christian missionary work, treaties were signed between the Soviet and Chinese governments that provided for the turning over of Russian churches to Chinese control. The cathedral was thus closed from the period of the Great Leap Forward (1958–61) and Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
Although the cathedral's sturdy structure withstood its intended destruction during the Cultural Revolution, its empty hull became a warehouse for a nearby state-run department store, its windows were bricked up and saplings grew from the roof. Prefabricated concrete high-rises boxed the church in on all four sides, coming within yards of its walls, making the cathedral inaccessible and invisible from the street. For decades it remained the invisible center of the city, surrounded by decorative material stalls, an auto body shop, a pen factory, and apartments for city government employees, until the Beijing government designated the cathedral a national cultural heritage site in 1996 as part of a nationwide campaign to protect historical sites.
Following its designation in 1996 as a national cultural heritage site (First class Preserved Building), a newspaper article about the hidden cathedral prompted donations from locals to restore the church. Local corporations, individual businesses as well as workers from nearby department stores donated money to restore the cathedral and renovate the square. A total of 12,000,000 yuan (approximately $1.5 million US) was eventually gathered and the cathedral regained its visibility in 1997, as the surrounding buildings were torn down.
A new Harbin Architecture Square conspicuously highlighted the cathedral with a huge new fountain at its entrance. The European-looking space was assigned a new meaning as the embodiment of culture and art and was re-presented to the public as the proud heritage of the city.
As of 1997 the cathedral was turned into the Municipal Architecture and Art Museum (Harbin Architectural Art Gallery), showcasing the multi-cultural architectural developments of Harbin throughout the ages.
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Preservation efforts needed to save historic places that remember Korean patriot Ahn's..
안중근 의사의 정신을 기억하는 땅…독립운동관련 시설 보존 필요
We are just days away from Korea's independence day.
So let's turn the spotlight to national heroes that fought for liberation from Japan's oppressive rule.
Some left a lasting mark while in other countries.
Which is why the Ministry of Patriot and Veterans Affairs is looking to check out the conditions of such historic sites.
Our Hong Yoo travelled to Harbin to learn more about the lack of preservation efforts there.
Harbin, a beautiful city located in northeastern China, is not only a popular tourist hotspot, it was also scene to the historic independence movement led in part by beloved Korean independence activist Ahn Jung-geun.
Ahn was the hero who helped wrestle Korea's sovereignty back from Imperial Japan.
The dark days of the early 1900s when Korea was colonialized by Imperial Japan brought Ahn to Harbin with the purpose of murdering Ito Hirobumi, the Japanese supervisor of Korea... or Chosun as it was known at the time.
Harbin train station looks a little different today, but it was here in 1909 where Ahn shot Ito - a historic event in Korea's struggle for independence from imperial Japan.
The platform where it happened was preserved in remembrance of Ahn Jung-geun's bravery until 2015, but it's no longer there.
Even the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Museum that opened in the station in 2014 has been removed.
The museum has been temporarily relocated inside Harbin Korean National Art Museum.
A lot of people visited the museum. Especially, South Koreans' interest in Ahn Jung-geun increased and so the museum was able to let people know why he's such an important figure in our history. That's why we are trying our best to make sure the museum gets its place back when construction is complete.
But it remains to be seen whether the museum will get its place back.
It will have to wait until reconstruction work is finished in 2020.
Ahn stayed in Harbin for eleven days and during that time, he stayed in Kim Seong-baek's house, the leader of Chosun society residing in Harbin who worked to solve any problems they faced living in the Chinese city.
Is this the house in the photo?
Yes, it is.
Yet, this house that's such an important part of Korean history has not been preserved at all.
Instead it's home to a local resident.
Likewise, all these historic places that show Ahn's movements in Harbin are not being well managed.
The chief researcher of Korea Cultural Heritage Policy Research Institute agrees the historical sites are not being well preserved.
In order to manage our historical sites efficiently, a private-sector foundation must be created that is composed of experts in the field. The government's role would be to support this foundation monetarily. This would improve the foundation's overall management.
In fact, the historical sites in Harbin were mostly taken care of by Korean activists until the early 2000s.
Government efforts only started when the public demanded they support the work of Koreans trying to preserve the sites.
With the uncertainty in the air,... it's hoped the government can cooperate with the private sector to preserve and effectively manage these historical sites that are so dear to Koreans around the world.
Hong Yoo, Arirang News, Harbin.
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In this episode of Travelogue, CGTN’s Tianran He travels to the icy realm of Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China. He’ll discover the ingenious methods locals use to thrive in minus 30 degrees Celsius weather and learn how conspicuous consumption and China’s rising middle class are changing this once remote landscape.
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Autumn in Harbin 2017
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Harbin prepares for Snow and Ice Festival grand opening
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Visitors from all over the world have already started to pour in to Harbin for China's Ice and Snow Festival.
Around 15 million people are expected to flood to the city over the nest two months to see the world famous ice sculptures - some of which are 150 feet high - spread across 600,000 square metres.
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One day before the grand opening of the Ice and Snow Festival, some streets of Harbin, a city in China's frigid northeast region, still look like a work in progress.
Huge chunks of of ice and piles of snow have gathered around roundabouts and major intersections, while the city's best ice and snow carvers are busy putting the finishing touch to their sculptures in preparation for the year's most anticipated event.
The annual festival, which starts on January 5th, showcases the region's tradition of snow and ice carvings as well as ice swimming.
Hundreds of workers prepare and spruce up the city weeks in advance. Big chunks of ice, the base for their creation, are dragged out of the nearby Songhua river and carved, brushed, and lit up to welcome visitors from China and beyond in temperatures that can reach below 25 degrees.
Animals, cartoon characters, famous Beijing monuments, there is no limit to the imagination.
Lü Fu has been carving ice for more than 20 years. The 52-year-old man from Harbin is helping to put the finishing touches to a giant ice castle on a busy roundabout in Harbin. About 10 metres up in the air, he brushes the ice with a small rake to make sure it stays neat and transparent.
I feel happy. Especially after completion. I feel so excited when I look at the ice castle with the lights on. Ice building is the pride of the Harbin people, he says.
It took Lü, along with a team of about 30 more workers, about 15 days to complete the castle.
Snow and ice sculptures are also prominently being exhibited around Central Street, Harbin's main pedestrian shopping area.
Song Jie, from Jiangsu province in southern China, is taking her mother and stepmother for a few days in Harbin.
I heard that Harbin is a city of ice. I saw ice sculptures of different sizes. It felt totally different from the cities in Southern China. It felt exotic, like a world of snow, she says.
Even though the grand opening is Thursday, tourists have been paying a visit to the Ice and Snow festival park to get a sneak peak at the attractions and the new icy constructions.
Giant slides, ice castles and a Buddha made of snow have enchanted Zhang Hanyu and her friend.
The workers are great. They completed such a huge project. People who have the chance to see these ice sculptures feel happy. It draws admiration. Playing here with my friends will certainly stay as a sweet memory, she says.
The Harbin Ice and Snow Festival runs until March 2017.
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Chicken stall, poultry. Meat stall. INT shop selling food in jars and cans. INT childrens toy shop. Little boy plays with toy car. Teenage boy holding rifle. Pan beauty products, cosmetics on shelves. Women shopping for cosmetics.
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CHINA: HARBIN: FLOOD RELIEF OPERATION CONTINUES
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Hundreds of thousands of troops have been sent to northeastern China to try and prevent the Songhua River flooding the city of Harbin.
The Chinese media is showcasing the troops' humanitarian work at a time when the army has been embarrassed by a smuggling scandal.
But while grateful citizens in Harbin have been giving the soldiers gifts of food and clothing, flood victims on the other side of the river have received scant relief.
A young man sings nationalist songs to a group of People's Liberation Army soldiers in Harbin.
These Chinese soldiers are enjoying a rest and fresh clothes given to them by local people after battling flood waters.
They are among the 230-thousand army and police troops who have been sent to the Harbin area to protect the nine (m) million residents of the city from the swollen Songhua River.
For a week, soldiers have been working day and night to erect a ten-kilometre long and two-metre high dike between the city and the river.
Working in such harsh conditions, the soldiers are being portrayed as heroes by the Chinese state-controlled media.
Scenes such as this - a civilian offering comfort to a soldier - are common in China's newspapers, while pictures of victims are much more rare, as are victims' accounts and disaster figures.
Most flood coverage by the Chinese media focuses on the 2.9 (m) million soldiers trying to mitigate the flooding by manning vital levees, plugging breaches and rescuing victims.
Images of soldiers saving civilians are useful to the army at a time when it has been embarrassed by a government crackdown on smuggling which has singled out the military's illegal activities.
As watermelons donated to the soldiers by locals pile up in Harbin, five kilometres away, on the flooded road to Daqing on the other side of the river, flood victims say they haven't received any aid since being forced to leave their homes.
The outpouring of gratitude towards the soldiers in Harbin stands in sharp contrast to the squalid condition of flood victims on the Songhua River's north shores.
Living under precarious shelters with whatever belongings they could rescue from the floods, these farmers are worried about whether help will come as their food supply dwindles.
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Food? We still have a bit, enough to keep us alive for a few days, but if the water doesn't go down in a short time we will be in danger.
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Some are reduced to fishing in the flood waters to feed their families.
These farmers managed to save their cattle, and have been surviving for a week on handouts from neighbours and milk from their cows.
But water is not the only obstacle they face in trying to get supplies.
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We have no food. All the rice and flour we had has been washed away by the water. We didn't have time to take them out. We drink milk and eat whatever we find. It is not easy to cross the river. Without a pass, we cannot come back. We cannot come back because the road is blocked to traffic under the martial law.
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A few kilometres away, across Laojiang bridge, Xu Shi Fa and his family erected their tent at the first place they find that was out of reach of the rising water - a garbage dump.
For a week, these six people have been living on ten kilograms of rice they managed to save.
The farmer, who lives on an island in the middle of the river, is not optimistic about his family's future.
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Down the road, these villagers have taken refuge on railway tracks.
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We will try our best to survive.
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Shopping at the supermarket in China!
Going to the supermarket in China can seem like a daunting prospect. The items are different, the layout is different, there's an aquarium! Yet Chinese supermarkets have much more in common with those in the west. This video breaks it all down!
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New and modern supermarkets are dotted all over Fuzhou. There has been a move away from local markets, to big supermarkets that act as a one-stop-shop. Amy and Rob show us around their local, and share some of the differences that most westerners will come across in a Chinese supermarket.
Straight away you will notice that the energy seems to crank up as you walk in. Lots of people, lots of noise, and lots to grab your attention. The best tactic is to just breathe, take your time, and go through methodically, until you are more familiar with the store. Many people are doing hit jobs, getting food for that days' meals, as quickly as they can. Don't let that faze you, just go about your business in a leisurely manner, and soak it all in.
Often supermarkets a multi-storied. Fruits, vegetables, meats and frozen goods are on the first floor. This is also where you will likely find a bakery, cooked food, and the check-outs. Up stairs contains pretty much everything else you can think of. Breakfast foods, condiments, all the snacks, and even clothing can be found. This style of supermarket truly has just about anything you could think of.
One thing to keep in mind is that the process of buying fruits and vegetables can be slightly different. In China, often you first need to bag and weigh your goods at a pricing station, before taking them to the checkout. Each seperate good has a barcode slapped on it, so as to simply be scanned and bagged at the checkout. Don't forget, because there is a special kind of pain to be felt, as you reach the front of the checkout, and remember you skipped this step...
You will also notice what looks to be an aquarium...where instead of pets, you can choose the freshest supper-time fish! It might seem distressing at first. Live frogs, fish, crustaceans, and more can be found. In the world of pre-packed meats, its easy to forget where all our foods come from. China has no problem putting that tasty reality on display!
To be fair, there isn't much else that's different. You wont find all the same food items from back home, but that is to be expected. Part of the fun of living in china is trying new foods, or hunting down exported goods for when the cravings hit. China now has most of anything you could want, you sometimes just have to pay a bit extra to get it!
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