The Sun Island
Lying on north bank of Harbin River, the Sun Island is elegant, and well-known with a melodious song of On the Sun Island. The eyes of numerous guests longing for beauty are feasted. Since 1906, the Russians have brought their living pattern, consumption habit, and vacation hobby into China. Through hundred years’ of polishing, surrounded by clear water, she is becoming riper and more charming, and proved worthy of the national AAAA grade tourist area.
There’re 1.06 million trees, including
more than 30 kinds of clove trees on the Sun Island. More than 2000 animals and
100 birds inhabit in the scenic spot. Spread with more than 20 artificial
landscapes, the island is clear, elegant, and interesting, and interlaced with
natural scenery. It seems that another feeling will be brought to people in such
a small place. A famous saying that ‘the deer cries on the hill side, and
drinks by the brook’ outlined a charming scene of the deer park; the Russian
custom town is full of exoticism and charming; the sun mountain has clear
fountain and flying waterfall, jagged rocks of grotesque shapes, weeping willows
on north bank, and long corridor accompanied by soughing of the wind in the
pines on the west; the waterside pavilion is standing on the lofty flood-control
wall.
The ice and snow culture of the Sun Island
is fascinating. The well-known Harbin snow carving art expo and the competition
of ice carving among the masses will be held once a year on the
snow-and-ice-covered Sun Island. The art wonders of ice and snow sculpture are
all splendid. With the building of Yu Zhixue Art Gallery, Russian Artists
Village, Northern Folk Art Fine Works Gallery, etc. the lithe and graceful scene
is merged into the diversified culture and arts, which adds another humanistic
beauty to the beautiful Sun Island.
