Colorful Ice Sculptures to Make Gorgeous Debuts at Changchun Ice and Snow World

Updated : 2019-12-11Source : CCFAO
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Ice troughs line up along the roadside and extend far away. Each and every trough contains colored ice, blue, green, red, purple or other colors. And each and every piece of colored ice is as crystal and beautiful as jade and meanwhile highlights the texture of damask.  

 

On December 8, all these colored ice will be carved into sculptures to create a new and amazing colored, high-quality business card for the ice and snow tourism products of Changchun City. 

 

“Ice making is a very important. The most technically difficult process is to make colored ice for which food pigments, beautiful and environmental friendly, are used. In addition, in order to ensure the crystal brightness of these ice cubes, natural freezing is adopted instead of freezing them in the freezer. An ice cube made in a freezer is just like ice cream, which is not transparent and bright,” Li Jiguo, a colored ice making expert from Harbin City, said at the construction site of Changchun Ice and Snow World. 

 

For technicians, freezing ice in the open air is challenging in terms of keeping the pigments well-distributed and unchanged at low temperature, which should be taken into account when using such pigments. In addition, it is a must to keep stirring in the process of ice condensation, and stop stirring at the critical point of ice water conversion so as to make beautiful colored ice successfully. 

 

“On December 5, we started ice making in which 30 people participated. The volume of each ice cube is 0.385 cubic meters. We made 100 pieces for the first batch, and will make another 100 pieces when temperature permits,” said Li Jiguo, adding, “In order to let people enjoy the beauty of ice and snow art and add more colors to the city in this winter. We have made 17 colors available this time. When frozen, these colored ice cubes will be cut into pieces for making sculptures. All sculptors are masters of fine arts.” 

 

“Like purple ice, we will carve it into grape shape. The sculpture named Fruitful shows such a funny scene of a mouse trying to get the grape. The ice in pink, red, rouge red other colors will be carved into one called National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance, with leaves made of ice in green color. The ice in coffee color will be carved into eight handsome horses….” Li Jiguo said, “Changchun Ice and Snow World will be built into a world-class ice and snow wonderland covering about 130 sculptures. The total volume of colored ice will reach a record of 200 cubic meters for the first time in Changchun City.” 

 

“Basically, many tourists like night sightseeing because ice sculptures look so much simple at day time. The sculptures made of colored ice are expected to make a big difference because appreciating colored ice sculptures at day time and lanterns at night will be made possible this year, thereby making Changchun Ice and Snow World a tourist destination full of unique charm worth visiting both at day time and at night.”