Snow sculpture

The snow is densely packed into a form after having been produced by artificial means or collected from the ground after a snowfall.

It was interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution, but has been resumed and was announced as an annual event at Zhaolin Park on January 5 in 1985.

Like Minnesota, many states hold their own competitions with a national event being held in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin each year.

Frankenmuth, Michigan hosts a massive snow and ice sculpture festival in late January with teams traveling to carve from all over the globe.

Competing states include Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Colorado, North Dakota, Alaska, Florida, Nebraska, Illinois, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.

This event hosts snow sculpting teams from around the world from countries such as the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Turkey, Canada, Finland, and Ecuador.

Winterlude snow sculpting
Snow sculpture version of the Ulrika Eleonora Church being constructed on the Senate Square, Helsinki in 2000
Canadian sculptor Michael Lane, in front of Family Reunion , which won First Place at the 2009 Breckenridge, Colorado International Snow Sculpture Championships
Mexican sculptor Abel Ramírez Águilar posing with a piece he created in Breckenridge, Colorado