Heilongjiang

north of northeast

Chase the wind, embrace the sun and the moon

Heilongjiang

heroic spirit

 

When countless snowflakes were falling happily, I was bidding farewell to the last train in this city. Watching the train disappear at the end of the mountain, I unknowingly turned into a snowman, but I didn't feel cold, but a long-lost feeling suddenly surged in my heart.

As far as I can see, through the snow, I seem to have returned to the vast sky and earth of the Greater Khingan Mountains. I seem to hear the rustling fallen leaves of the birch forest, and see the smoke rising from the farmhouses in Beihong Village...

 

 

 

 

frozen river

 

This is Heilongjiang’s most basic respect for winter.

 

 

 

When the bells of Sofia Church no longer ring, Harbin, a city full of exotic customs, is no longer full of mysterious mirror images. Walking on Central Street, you feel like you are in a small European town. Every clear morning, you enjoy the delicacy of Leba and red sausage, moistened by the warmth of Sopot soup. It seems that everything around you has become gentle, and it no longer feels like subzero temperatures. It’s 38 degrees, and the whole world is frozen to a solid state.

 

 

Central Avenue

Central Street is filled with European churches

Ice and snow sculptures can be seen everywhere on the street

And exotic Russian girls

Qiulin's red sausage

Madiel's popsicles

Russian and Western food at Hualin Western Restaurant

It’s a beam of light this winter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anywhere in the world

All can grow

Anywhere

It's all a destination

Heilongjiang in winter

covered with snow

But not desolate

Regarding the Northeast, people in Jilin feel that people from Liaoning are not from the Northeast, while people from Heilongjiang feel that people in Heilongjiang are only in the Northeast. Before going to the Northeast, my friends in Jilin told me that I didn’t know what cold was until I arrived in Harbin. Don’t underestimate the temperature difference of 5 degrees. When it goes up to 30 degrees, every degree is a painful realization.

 

The biggest characteristic of me is that I don’t believe in evil.

So when we arrived in Heilongjiang, it became an extreme challenge, taking off the clothes to the end.

 

Fuyuan

The first place to see the sunrise in mainland China

 

 

The easternmost place in China, I believe many people think of it as Dongji Island. But few people know about Heixiazi Island in Fuyuan. This is the easternmost point of mainland China, with the mighty "First Outpost in the East" and Wusu Town, a town with only one family.

On October 14, 2008, the Chinese and Russian governments held the "Unveiling Ceremony of the Boundary Stake in the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary" on Heixiazi Island. Half of the much-anticipated Heixiazi Island's territory was returned to China.

return ceremony

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The easternmost toilet

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Easternmost Sculpture

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Wusu Town

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The first post in the East

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Heixiazi Island

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first ray of light

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Easternmost Youth Hostel

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Advertise here. Come to Fuyuan and find the official master. Whatever you think of, Master Guan will never let you down! The phone is pictured above.

There is also primitive and simple winter fishing here that you can’t experience in Chagan Lake!

 

 

Excited beyond words

Don't say anything, just take it off

 

mohe

China's northernmost point

arctic village

Anywhere in Beiji Village can be said to be the northernmost place in China. It has the northernmost post office, the northernmost primary school, the northernmost township government, the northernmost outpost... and even the northernmost toilet. People who come here never forget to buy a postcard from the northernmost post office in China before leaving, stamp it with the northernmost postmark, and keep it as a souvenir. In the snowy small village, the cabins were covered with thick snow, so that only the orange light from the windows could be seen, and the bright stars were set like diamonds in the dark blue night sky...

 

What else to say

take off

beihongcun

Many people think that Arctic Village is the northernmost village in China, but this is actually the result of commercial operations. The most primitive village in the north of China, Beihong Village, is located deep in the dense forests of the Daxinganling Mountains. There was electricity here in 2013 and China Unicom signal in 2017. There is no running water or shuttle bus. If you come here in winter, you can experience the speed and passion of a car speeding on the glacier.

Sino-Russian border

Longjiang First Bay

Heilongjiang

So what about four-wheel drive?

 

Northern Kingdom Sky Stone

boundary marker

usuri shoal

birch forest

 

take off

 

So this post went from a literary beginning to a solo carnival of a foot-picking man.

Regarding Northeast China, I actually still have a lot of secrets I want to know.

For example, the magnificence of Wudalianchi and the elegance of Hezhe National Cultural Village

The monsters in Tianchi of Changbai Mountain and the ladies from the Northeast who are more masculine than the men from the Northeast...

Write and draw,

When I put down the pen in my hand, it was almost dawn.

Looking out the window, I suddenly remembered a sentence:

"We cannot see all the snow that falls in a person's life."

So deep snow has accumulated in Daxinganling Mountains for a long time

Who can see it?

The sky in the east has turned white, and the fog is slowly rising.

The fog is probably the smoke from Beihong Village, or the random yellow leaves scattered in the birch forest in autumn.
Sometimes a real wisp of smoke, a faint cyan color, climbs out of the chimney on the spire of the wooden house.

There is a yard in front of the wooden house. Standing in the yard, every night, you can see the Milky Way when you look up.

If possible, I would like to have a wooden house deep in the hundreds of millions of birch trees in Daxinganling Mountains.

I want to live in that wooden house one winter.

I don't need electricity. I have some books and many candles.

There are tall firewood stacks in my yard and a blazing fire in the earthen kang.

Perhaps today and every snowy day in the future, I will think of the white snow in the Greater Khingan Mountains, the smoke from the wooden houses and the countless white birches, as if time has always been like this. Just like tonight, I am still far away.

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