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JILIN RIME

Hello everybody! Welcome to Jilin. Now we are going to enjoy the wonderful scenery of Jilin rime.

Jilin rime with its poetic and picturesque beauty of “spring in winter”, together with other three landscapes: Qiantang River tidal bore; Sunrise of Mount Tai; Cloud of Mount Huang, is named as one of the four meteorological wonders of China. In the dead of winter, the northern China was depressed, however, you would see a miraculous and beautiful landscape when entering Jilin City. Looking along the bank of Songhua River, you will see a grand sight of frost and snow on the branches of pines and willows, like a cluster of silver, or rows of snow spoondrift. That’s the wonder named “Rime”.

The rime is gener ally called “Shu gua”, It’s fog and water vapor turn into ice with either particle or crystal shape. The construction of particle rime is tight, while crystal is loose. And the former one turn into small ice cubes while the latter turn into large slices. Jilin rime falls into the crystal shape. It will take into shape with vapor at the temperature lower than -25℃ and in the wind less than grade 3. Only in this condition can the rime involve. The unique condition in Jilin city is perfect for the rime.

Fengman Hydronic Power Station is 15 kilometers up to the Songhua River, whose average depth is 70 meters. In the dead of winter, its water keeps its temperature at about 4℃. It never freezes after running several tens of kilometers across the city with its vast thermic energy. The vast amount of water steam vaporizes from the unfrozen river, meets the cold air, forming the pattern of miraculous log and floating and perfusing, when natural condition is appropriate, it turns into crystal fog on the branches of pines and willows on either bank of the river, thus the world-renowned rime takes into shape.

Jilin comes into winter every mid-November, at the same time, the rime appears, especially the years with large amount of snow and cold weather.

China is the first country to record rime in the world. For thousands of years, ancient Chinese have had many names and praises of rime such as “Shu Jia” according to the , written by Lv Chen in Song Dynasty. It means “Cold air makes ice, disappear when it meets sunshine. People in ShanDong call it Wu Song.” The most mysterious name is “Meng Song”, which recorded in , means “Gift sent in dream”.

People may feel air is very fresh when they are viewing rime. It is because the rime has ability of freshening air. There is a lot of dust in the air, and rime can absorb them. Therefore, rime is not only beautiful, but also a natural air cleaner.