Name: 人々は氷のワンダーランドで祝う？- 中国の新年 - BBC (People celebrate in ice wonderland ?? ? - Chinese New Year - BBC)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:10:17.000Z
Duration: 4 min 37 s
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The red lantern is the classic emblem of China.

基礎受動態

they were used to mark the entrances of houses and they soon became

At Chinese New Year, lanterns represent the light of hope.

Back in the 1960s, the people of Harbin couldn't afford traditional

so they froze water in buckets, put candles inside,

Using light as a symbol of celebration has continued through

Almost every one of over 2,000 buildings here

The lighting design is almost as epic an endeavour as building the

The logistics involved in making this happen are staggering.

means the Festival needs 230,000 metres of electrical cables.

But creating such a vast electrical system demands meticulous attention

to detail to withstand such extreme conditions.

These aren't your standard household LEDs.

A team of engineers have specifically designed ones

OK, it's more expensive than a conventional light bulb,

but it is more eco-friendly. Plus, can you imagine

the bill to pay the electricity at this place?

Each block of the ice is hand chiselled to create a groove

The blocks are then lined up in a brick wall pattern.

The great thing about LEDs is they emit less heat.

What you don't want within an ice block is a block melting.

Now, you need to join the bricks together. Traditionally,

and especially in your home, you'd use something like cement.

But here in Harbin they use something completely different.

Water. I've kept it in my coat to try and keep it liquid.

and I literally only have a few seconds to get the next brick on top

The idea being that those two then fuse together and it becomes a solid

Now the moment of truth. Hook some batteries up to my LEDs

Of course, there's a slightly bigger switchbox for the main event.

Each individual light is painstakingly turned on by hand,

building by building, and I get to turn on the very last building.

There it is. A little bit of Russia in the middle of China.

The ice city is developed across an entire year by a team of architects,

everything that you've created here is gonna melt?