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Where winter takes shape

Updated: 2021-03-02 08:02 ( China Daily )
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The Longqing Gorge Ice Lantern Art Festival in suburban Beijing features lanterns, sculptures and video promos for the 2022 Winter Olympics projected on cliff sides. [Photo provided to China Daily]

An unlikely, yet much beloved, figure of the community is an elderly farmer who rides a two-wheeled cart drawn by a goat wearing sunglasses, a Peking Opera headdress, multiple facemasks, smiley-face balloons and pinwheels.

Indeed, the scene may seem surreal.

But it's just a warm-up for the always fantastical-and sometimes wacky-winter wonderland that is the Longqing ice fest.

Yang Feiyue contributed to the story.

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