Songhua River, ranks the fifth longest river in China, runs about 1,897
kilometers long and covers a drainage area of 545,600 square kilometers. The
source of the river is a crater lake called Heavenly Lake with an elevation of
2,189 meters at the top of the Changbai Mountain, which borders North Korea in
China’s Jilin Province. The water falls down from the Heavenly Lake and forms
a waterfall, as if the water rushes down from haven. Hence the local Manchu
inhabitant called it “Heavenly Lake” in meaning, “Songga-liwula” in
pronunciation. Now we transliterate into Chinese Songhua River.
It is 4 meters in depth and 1 kilometer in width on average in Harbin
sector. Songhua River has more than 900 branches in large and small size. The
river is frozen over from November to April the nest year. the period of
freezing weather is 135 days.
As the largest branch of the Heilong River, Songhua River winding through
Harbin for 117 kilometers and served as an important artery for the
development of the city. In the 17th century, under the reign of Emperor
Kangxi, naval ships were stationed along these areas, and resisted the
invading Russian enemy successfully. After that, in 1689, Sino-Russian Treaty
of Nerchinsk was signed. That is the first border agreement between the Qing
government and the imperial Russian government. On June 6th, 1898, a Russia
warship taken on the engineers and surveyors to made a topographic map for
building the China-East Railway. There landing point is where the Flood
Control Monument located now. From then on, the river became busy and lots of
material needed for build the railway were transported through this River and
then, a modern city was erected at the south bank of Songhua River.
Three big bridges have been built over the river, and one of them
connected the south bank of Harbin and Sun Island was built in 1983 and opened
to traffic in 1986. This bridge approach or the leading bridge on the south
bank of the Songhua River was designed to have two circles. So the whole
bridge was like a scissors and the bridge approach is like the scissors’
handle.
The Songhua River in winter is no less bustling than a summer bathing
beach. It’s frozen hard with ice nearly one meter thick, turning it into a
huge playground for all kinds of ice sports. You can go skating and ice
sailing, or ride in ice junks or horse-drawn sleighs. But if you want to do
something really different, why not get into a swimming costume and join those
crazy people, young and old, diving and swimming in a pool of icy water dug
out of the frozen river?
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Ladies and gentlemen: