It has originated in Harbin`s tradicional ice lantern show and garden pary, which has began in 1963. 

At the begining, this festival was mainly chinese, but it has become the largest ice and snow festival in the world. Harbin, during the festival, is one of the most popular travel destination.
This festival starts officially on January 5, because of the harsh winter, and lasts one month. 
There are three venues, which are Sun Island Scenic Area, only displays snow sculptures that can be visited durinfg the day, The Ice and Snow World, sculpures of huge scale such as buildings, and Zhaolin Park, that there are interestings activities for kids.
In the festival, the are a lot of sculpture around the city, there are frem animals till castel. during the day the are just an amount of snow, but in the night, with all the lights on, is just amazing!!

This year's festival will bring together tradicional lanterns with high tech ones, that are made with light bulbs, mercury-free batteries, neon lights, LED lights, laser shows and projection mappings.

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 A lot of people wear an item of green clothing on this day. Parties featuring Irish food and drinks that they dye in green food color are part of the celebration. 
 The original color of St. Patrick was blue. One of reasons green replaced blue was because of Ireland's flag that has a green stripe l. Traditionally, green also represents the Catholic people. 
 There are some very traditional food like Corned Beef (is a salt-cured beef product. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large grained rock salt, also called "corns" of salt) and Shepherp's Pie or cottage pie is a meat pie with a crust of mashed potato. 

The Burning Man is an annual event that happens in Nevada EUA.  The first Burning Man was in 1986 in San Francisco, it was a small event. 

 Every year more than 70000 gather round in the middle of a desert and build togheter a temporary city. Soon it comes to be a great experience of community and art. The event takes its name from its main ritual of burning a large wooden statue, the Man.
 
 At the festival, cooperation and collaboration are the reasons why the festival rise, it is the precept for the community. The funniest part it is that all the people in the festiva are allowed to include experimental and interactive sculptures buildings, do any kind of performance, all inspired by the yearly theme

It is a major holiday in great China but it is also celebrated worldwide in several countries in Asia, Europe and America.

The New Year festival is centuries old and associated with several Chinese myths.Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. With regional customs and traditions  the celebration of the Lunar New Year is very variated . Often, the evening preceding Lunar New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean the house. Windows and doors are decorated with red colour paper-cuts and with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". This reunion is named “Nian Ye Fan” and is held at New Years Eve. They usually have lots of plates such as chicken, pork, meat, dog, or fish dishes fried noodles, vegetables cakes and tofu. 

In many households where Buddhism or Taoism is prevalent, home altars and statues are cleaned thoroughly, and decorations used to adorn altars over the past year are taken down and burned a week before the new year starts, to be replaced with new decorations. Families often offer sweet foods in order to make the deities such as Zao Jun (the kitchen god) into reporting good things about the family to the Jade Emperor.