In recent days, a picture of a giant snowman with a smile and a cute shape has appeared frequently on Weibo, and #Harbin's big snowman is so cute# has once been on the hot search.
This giant snowman wearing a red hat, a red scarf, and two big red hearts on his chest has turned over countless netizens, and they have left messages saying "too healing" and "want to go to the scene to see"...
A giant snowman located in Harbin Qunli Music Park
It is reported that this big snowman is located on the music gallery of Qunli Music Park in Daoli District, Harbin City, and is one of the largest single snow sculptures in Harbin this winter. How did this cute big snowman "come out of nowhere"? Today (January 12) morning, The Red Star News reporter contacted Zhang Kai, director of the Project Service Center of the Harbin Daoli District Garden Bureau, who gave the reporter a detailed introduction to the birth process of this super cute snowman.
"This is the second year our district has been doing this big snowman. Last year also did one, the response is particularly good, there are more than 30 million hits on the vibrato, everyone especially likes, so this year continue to do. Zhang Kai said. The snowman is 18 meters 5 meters high, 13 meters wide and about 9 meters thick, and uses about 2,000 cubic meters of snow — mostly artificial snow, because of the large amount of artificial snow and the density of artificial snow. ”
"Snow Giant" video according to Xinhua News Agency
Zhang Kai told the Red Star News reporter that this big snowman was operated by a company specializing in ice and snow sculpture through bidding. "Harbin has always been famous for ice sculptures and snow sculptures, and the resources in this area are very rich. The big snowman was completed in 10 days with 12 carvers. Previously, some media reports mentioned that "120 carvers were used", Zhang Kai explained, in fact, it is the meaning of the workload of a total of 120 people.
Since its inauguration on January 7, this big snowman has been loved by everyone, and thousands of people come to visit and punch every day, and has become a new landmark on the banks of the Songhua River this winter. "At present, the temperature in Harbin is about -20 degrees Celsius, and it is estimated that the snowman can be maintained until the end of February this year." Zhang Kai said, "When the weather gradually begins to warm up, we will closely observe the state of the snowman, and if there is a sign of loosening, we will remove it in time to ensure safety." ”
For this big snowman who has been popular all over the country these days, Zhang Kai said that they are also very happy about this, "Welcome everyone to come to Harbin to play, come to us as a big snowman for a group photo." In the future, we will continue this idea and strive to bring new surprises to everyone every year. ”
Another big snowman located in the "Snowman Wharf" on the Bund in Harbin
In addition, there is also a big snowman at the Ice River Carnival scene located in the "Snowman Wharf" on the Bund in Harbin, which is smaller than this one in the music gallery, and the chest is decorated with two blue snowflakes, which is also sought after by many netizens.
In addition to the "giant snowman", some Harbin netizens said that there have been countless "little snowmen" on the banks of the Songhua River, piled up 2019 in 2019 and piled up 2020 in 2020. The scene of many snowmen gathering was also ridiculed by netizens as a "meeting at the headquarters of Honey Snow Ice City".
In previous years, the "Little Snowman Rally" on the banks of the Songhua River was based on the network
And then there's the beauty and meaning of these ice and snow artworks
1
Melted Xiaoice people
Since the beginning of the century, Brazilian installation artist and sculptor Nele Azevedo has embarked on her "Melting Men" project for WWF. She visited important cities in more than a dozen countries, placing thousands of small ice statues on the steps in front of local landmarks.
“Melting Men”
"Some people think sculpture should be eternal, and my sculpture only leaves a moment." Artist said. Small, fragile, lonely, over time, the Iceman gradually melts and breaks, like every real life that will eventually pass away.
2
The snowman in the fridge
In 1987, the German thermal power plant commissioned a work of art by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The two artists, combining the reality that global warming has caused the melting of ice and snow at the poles, placed the Snowman in the refrigerator in front of the thermal power plant— which relies on electricity to keep it cool and does not melt, which triggers public thinking about the contradictory relationship between technology and nature.
“Snowman”
This snowman is very famous, "alive" more than 30 years old, in 2017 also went to Los Angeles to exhibit, until 2019 to end the project.
3
"Ice Clock"
The famous artist Orafur Eliasson's "Clock on Ice" is based on nature – he and his team salvaged more than 100 tons of ice floes from the fjord waters of Greenland, split them into 12 huge ice bricks, and arranged them in a circle according to the shape of the clock, placed in the public spaces of major cities - Paris, Copenhagen, London...
The artist expressed the hope that these large ice cubes would appear in these famous metropolises in the most primitive state, for people to stop and see, touch, and think.
4
Painting on ice
Hawaiian artist Sean Yoro has always focused on marine ecology, painting both on artificial reefs beneath tropical waters and on ice floes on the ice sea. He had a huge challenge in the Canadian Arctic: to find a suitable ice surface as a drawing board and draw a pattern before it shattered.
Sean Yoro's ice painting
In order to complete the work in time, Yuro and his assistants will race against the clock on the ice to paint before the ice cracks. At the same time, he would lay transparent flakes between the painting and the ice, and paint with non-toxic pigments mixed with natural pigments to avoid polluting the seawater.
5
Land art on Lake Baikal
A piece of ice can be used as a drawing board, but what about a whole ice lake? In March 2010, land artist Jim Denevan and his team spent 15 days painting a large-scale work of art on the ice of Siberian Lake Baikal, about 1.37 meters thick. The painting covers an area of about 32 square kilometers, setting the record for the largest geometric figure and the largest painting in the world at that time.
Ice land art on Lake Baikal
Danny Van first rode his bicycle, drawing lines on the ground with wheels and sticks in his hand; the team used this as a base to draw a line of about half a meter with a shovel; and finally, the snowplow drew the final giant circle. In this way, the artist and his team created a spectacle of ice based on the proportion of the circle in the Fibonacci sequence.
Red Star News reporter | Qiao Xueyang intern | Liu Renjie
Edited | Duan Xueying
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