From a distance, the riverbanks look like two dancing silver dragons, while inside the city is a fairy world of ice and snow. The whole city is mixed into this grand and magnificent wonder world of hoarfrost. In the early 1990s, the State Administration of Tourism listed the hoarfrost of Jilin, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the Stone Forest in Yunnan Province, and the scenery in Guilin as China s four natural wonders. Jilin has a unique geographical location. The city is surrounded by mountains and rivers.
Breezes are always gentle here.
The Songhuajiang River flows through the city proper in the shape of an S . Hoarfrost is seen in the same latitude around the world, but only in Jilin can such grand and magnificent hoarfrost appear. It is even rarer that Jilin, a modern city with a population of more than a million, possesses this natural wonder, which usually appears outside of cities. Jilin is located in the middle of northeast China, with Liaoning Province to the south and Heilongjiang Province to the north. Snow is deep during the long winter, yet the temperature is not so low.