Learn to ski in Changchun and enjoy grand performances at Lotus Island. The "Ice & Snow Lantern Festival" at Changchun Lotus Island Film and Television Leisure Culture Park is set to kick off on December 13, 2025. Lasting until March 8, 2026, the 86-day winter cultural tourism gala will use myriads of lanterns as its guiding visual motif and Northeast China's Spring Festival customs as its cultural soul to offer visitors from across the country an immersive ice and snow folk experience.

Centered around the core theme of "Red Lanterns Aloft", the event deeply integrates romantic light displays with Northeast China's folk customs. Myriads of lanterns will weave a dazzling secret realm of light within the park. The intangible cultural heritage fireworks performance will be a highlight, with golden fireworks blooming among the lanterns, complementing the customized sky lanterns held by visitors. Together, they will create a poetic scene of "a thousand lanterns and blossoms of fire lighting up the ice and snow night", providing highly shareable moments for visitors.

The atmosphere of Spring Festival customs forms the core attraction of the event. Under the theme "A Warm Northeast Spring Festival", the park's Snow Valley Market will be upgraded into a Spring Festival merchandise fair featuring authentic Northeastern delicacies, such as the bubbling stewed dishes in iron pots, the fragrant combination of pork ribs and pickled cabbage, and neatly displayed local snacks like tanghulu, frozen pears, and free-range chicken, which will bring back the cherished winter flavors of the Northeast and allow visitors to find warmth in every bite amid the ice and snow.

The event is designed to cater to visitors of all ages through diverse experience scenarios. Ice and snow attractions such as the "Hua Xiao Lian" themed snow slide and the parent-child snow park are ideal for family outings, while the large-scale immersive period drama, The Story of Changchun in 1948, recreates city memories, meeting the recreational needs of different visitor groups.

The "Ice & Snow Lantern Festival" is a precise expression of Northeast China's cultural tourism characteristics. Using lanterns as the medium and Spring Festival customs as the bridge, the festival aims to allow visitors to feel the warmth and hospitality of Northeast China amid the ice and snow. Tourists from across the country are sincerely invited to join the festival, where they can capture their smiles under the glow of a thousand lanterns and enjoy a uniquely warm winter.

Source: Mobile Changchun  Editor: Liu Jiadi