Chagan Lake Winter Festival Sets Record with $238K ‘First Fish’ Auction
Chagan Lake’s 24th winter festival opens with a record-breaking 1.7M yuan fish auction, celebrating tradition and funding ecological protection in Jilin Province.
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Chagan Lake’s 24th winter festival opens with a record-breaking 1.7M yuan fish auction, celebrating tradition and funding ecological protection in Jilin Province.
Jilin’s Songyuan City launches 24th annual ice fishing festival, blending ancient traditions with expanded winter sports and cultural experiences through March 2026.
Jilin Province’s Chagan Lake launches its 24th winter fishing festival on January 8, merging ancient traditions with new ice-snow attractions in 2026.
Chagan Lake’s 2025 ice fishing festival opens with 50,000kg haul, blending tradition and science to sustain both fish stocks and local livelihoods.
The ice fishing season has begun in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, with fishermen pulling massive hauls from frozen lakes. The first catch weighed an impressive 175,000 kilograms.
Experience the thousand-year-old ice fishing tradition at Chagan Lake in northeast China, where “fish heads” continue ancient techniques passed down for 20 generations.