Ice lights span 48 years

Listening to the reporter’s old journalist’s memories, the original Harbin Ice Lantern Garden Party Club took into consideration the long winter in Harbin. In cold weather, the citizens had “cat winter” at home, and their leisure time was very poor. In order to increase the color of the people’s life, the city’s leaders at that time called on the citizens to participate. Ice lights entertainment activities. In 1963, at Zhaolin Park, people used buckets and other objects to make water and ice and processed them into pieces of ice. This is the first ice lamp. At that time, the workers’, youths, and women’s departments responded to the call to participate in the production of the ice scene. At that time, 250,000 people across the city came to visit the beautiful ice scene from all directions. This is the first ice lantern garden party in Harbin. It is said that the ticket at the time was 5 cents, and another child ticket was 3 cents.

The newly created ice lamp uses candles and electric light as the light source, and the second electric light source is generally used. The electric lights at that time are all incandescent lamps. The fourth part used colored incandescent lamps and a small amount of fluorescent lamps, and also used colored glass paper cover incandescent lamps to increase the color of ice scenes to make up for the lack of colored incandescent lamps. At the same time, the first stage lighting was introduced into the ice lanterns. After the reform and opening up, various new types of electric light sources such as neon lights, sodium lamps, iodine tungsten lamps, spotlights, floodlights, cosmic revolving lights, etc. were gradually introduced to create a variety of events for the ice lanterns, moving, static, hot, and confusing. Atmosphere.

New idea on "light"

In the early days of the ice lanterns, people used their limited imagination. The makers even put the goldfish and ice scenes of the family's recreation together. The visitors were magical and interesting. The perseverance of this small life in the water could not withstand the outdoor low temperature, let the creative ideas of the year. Helplessly ended. Early works of ice lights also put a bunch of flowers into a bucket of water and frozen to form a colorful flower ice landscape.

The smart and wise Harbin people continue to sublimate and temper their ice lanterns and make ice sculptures. The scale of the Ice Lantern Art Garden is also magnificent each year. Director of the Harbin Ice-Light Art Expo Center, Wang Xuhai, said that many modern technologies have made the performance of ice-light art more plentiful. In recent years, LED lights, environmental protection color ice, and landscape lights have been used to increase the expressiveness and beauty of ice-light art. The LED lights are used in the ice scene, and each one of them plays with the traditional lamps. This reflects the characteristics of the era of low-carbon and energy saving, and also reflects the application results of modern science and technology. This has become the unique national patent of the Harbin Ice Lantern Art Exhibition Center.

The reporter learned that the use of LED lights has four major benefits: First, change the static ice landscape is dynamic and the light can change tens of thousands of colors, the second is to solve the serious problem of traditional light source mercury pollution, the third is energy saving, and the fourth is a new light source equipment Recyclable.

Director Wang said that in the process of ice lamp production, the principles of controllable, low-temperature, environmental-friendly and low-cost recycling have been followed, and on the basis of inherited tradition, the company has pursued rich forms of expression and developed water that is not frozen. In the cold weather, let the water flow to form flowing water, springs, and waterfalls. We also want to show the biodiversity in the Expo. Next year we will show visitors living animal works that blend in with the ice landscape. This is no longer a problem in the era of modern science and technology, so as to enhance the dynamics of ice-light art and the interactive function with tourists.

Ice-light art is such that in the advancing with the times, it exudes infinite charm.