{"id":2025,"date":"2010-12-13T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2010-12-13T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T06:28:56","slug":"beijing-ice-and-snow-festival-at-former-imperial-garden-yuanmingyuan-old-summer-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/beijing-travel\/beijing-ice-and-snow-festival-at-former-imperial-garden-yuanmingyuan-old-summer-palace","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Ice and Snow Festival at Former Imperial Garden Yuanmingyuan (Old Summer Palace )"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The First\u00a0Imperial Old\u00a0Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) Ice and Snow Festival is held from the winter solstice (DEC 22, 2010) \u00a0to the Lantern Festival (FEB 17, 2011)\u00a0which last 58 days.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The theme activity\u00a0“Ice and Snow Festival 2011\u00a0and\u00a0the Royal Old Summer Palace” is held in the Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park for 58 days from DEC 22, 2010 to FEB 17, 2011, the first kind of ice and snow activity ever held in Beijing. <\/span><\/div>\n
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The\u00a0ice and snow activities are classified into two sections – Baqi\u00a0(Eight Banners)\u00a0Snow Activities and Baqi (Eight Banners) Ice Activities<\/span><\/div>\n
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Baqi\u00a0(Eight Banners)\u00a0Snow Activities include real people plain playing CS, inflatable castles, royal hunting, children snow paradise, real people mountain playing CS, snow\u00a0motors,\u00a0New Zealand Zorbs, snow rings,\u00a0skis, skiboards, the ice castle,\u00a0ice slides etc., <\/span><\/div>\n
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Baqi (Eight Banners) Ice Activities include ice cars,\u00a0ice bikes,\u00a0ice monkeys, ice bumper cars, ice shows and ice playing(bingxi) activities.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The snow activities are held\u00a0first. The ice activities\u00a0are held\u00a0based on the ice frozenconditions.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This ice and snow fesitival held in Beijing has\u00a0four highlights:<\/span><\/div>\n
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Highlight One: <\/strong>See Bing Xi (former royal ice playing ceremony in Qing Dynasty)…<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
As the Qing Dynasty’s Royal Garden, a garden\u00a0toppling all other\u00a0gardens,\u00a0\u00a0Yuanmingyuan\u00a0was once\u00a0one of the living places for the emperors in\u00a0the Qing Dynasty.\u00a0During the\u00a0Qing\u00a0prime time, the emperors would stay much longer time in the garden even more than in the Forbidden City. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Bing Xi (Ice Playing) Ceremony in Qing Dynasy from huangjiabingxuejie.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The emperors\u00a0still attached great importance to the ice and snow sports activities after they moved from the cold northeast China. In addition,\u00a0the emperor Qianlong set “Bingxi”\u00a0(a kind of royal ice and snow activities ) as a “national folk”.\u00a0Today in\u00a0Palace Museum there is still kept a “Bingxi Map” (ice and snow playing map) depicting the grand ice and snow playing ceremony.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Highlight Two:\u00a0<\/strong>Easy transportation,\u00a0ice and snow carnival on the subway<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
Skating, skiing and snow playing, these\u00a0words are far\u00a0away from the capital city of Beijing geographically. Now this winter, they are no longer far away. The “Royal Old Summer Palace Ice and Snow Festival”, a Beijing winter outdoor ice and snow\u00a0festival, the most accessible.\u00a0Visitors are able\u00a0to\u00a0use the Metro Line 4 for the\u00a0big ice and snow carnival.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Highlight Three:\u00a0<\/strong>Intangible Culture Heritage Shows,\u00a0Shadow Play…<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
According to the organizers, organizing the “Ice and Snow Festival 2011\u00a0and \u00a0The Royal Old Summer Palace,” is based on the concept of “ice tempering your will and culture\u00a0touching your heart.”\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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So, this festival will not only be a “fun”, it will be to create a taste of Beijing’s most\u00a0cultural winter festival. Accompanied with winter sports is a cultural festival and exhibition on the activities, including the Royal shadow, educational carnival, cartoon shows, circus, and the theme of the folk arts and crafts exhibitions and so on intangible cultural heritage.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Highlight Four:<\/strong> Lantern Festival overlaping the ice and snow festival<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
The lantern festival (Feb 03 – Feb 17) is also held during the ice and snow fesitival. The two events are interwoven, bringing much delight to the visitors.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Then the dragon and lion dances, riddles, comic opera and other Chinese New Year event will add much to festive atmosphere at the ice and snow at Yuanmingyuan. Visitors are\u00a0expected to feel the festive atmosphere, appreciate traditional culture, experience a different kind of Yuanmingyuan and Beijing.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Address:<\/strong> Yuanmingyuan, Haidian District, Beijing, Yuanmingyuan <\/span><\/div>\n
Entry Ticket<\/strong>: RMB 30 including the fee for Yuanminguan itself.<\/span><\/div>\n
Time<\/strong>: December 22, 2010 – February 17, 2011<\/span><\/div>\n
Opening Hours<\/strong>: 9:00 – 18:00
\nEnquiry<\/strong>: Tel: 13910579806 (Ms Cui)<\/span><\/div>\n
How to get there<\/strong>:<\/span><\/div>\n
Take the subway line 4 to the Summer Palace Station, exit from Gate A<\/span><\/div>\n
Or\u00a0take buses:\u00a0432,656,681,717,743,982,664 and drop off at the south gate of the Yuanmingyuan<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0The Fees for the Individual Snow Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No.<\/td>\nSnow Activities<\/td>\nFees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weekday<\/td>\nWeekends\u00a0 Holidays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nSnow Flying Source<\/td>\nRMB80\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB100\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nSki<\/td>\nRMB80\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB100\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nNew Zealand Zorbs<\/td>\nRMB30\/Half Hour<\/td>\nRMB40\/ Half Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSnow CS<\/td>\nRMB35\/per time<\/td>\nRMB35\/Per time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nRoyal Horse Riding<\/td>\nRMB20\/per ring<\/td>\nRMB30\/Ring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAncient Chinese Attire Photography on horseback<\/td>\nRMB30\/PP<\/td>\nRMB30\/PP<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nRoyal Equestrian<\/td>\nRMB120\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB100\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nDog sledge<\/td>\nRMB100\/Ring<\/td>\nRMB100\/Ring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nSnow Motors<\/td>\nRMB30\/Ring<\/td>\nRMB40\/Ring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nInflatable Children Castles<\/td>\nRMB30\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB30\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Fees for the Individual\u00a0Ice Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No.<\/td>\nIce Activities<\/td>\nFees<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weekday<\/td>\nWeekends\u00a0 Holidays<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nSkate<\/td>\nRMB30\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB40\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nIce Car<\/td>\nRMB20\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB30\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nIce Bike<\/td>\nRMB30\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB40\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nIce Monkeys<\/td>\nRMB10\/Hour<\/td>\nRMB15\/Hour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nIce Bumper Car<\/td>\nRMB35\/Time<\/td>\nRMB40\/Time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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