JilinRime
Good morning，my friends. Did you have a sound sleep last night？Today good fortune has brought us good luck. What is our good luck？That is，the rime has covered the branches，which hasn’t been seen for days. Seeing is believing. Now let us take a look at the rime，one of four China’s natural wonders. It is about ten-minute drive from our International Hotel to the Ten-li Bank. First of all，I would like to tell you the formation of the rime.
Jilin Rime with its poetic and picturesque beauty of“spring in winter”，together with other three landscapes，Guilin Scenery，Yunnan Stone Forest，and Three Gorges in the Yangtze River，is named as one of the four China’s natural wonders. In Jilin，generally，we call fog glaze“the rime”，which actually is a kind of weather sight: fog and water vapor turn into ice with either particle or the crystal shape.
Jilin Rime falls into the crystal shape. It will take into shape with vapor at the temperature lower than -25 C and in the wind less than grade 3 equal to breeze. Only in this condition can the rime evolve. Only because of this，Jilin Rime is one of the 8 world wonders. Upon hearing this，some of you may ask what it is that makes Jilin City the place of marvelous rime on such a large scale. The main reason is that across Jilin City there is the Songhua River，the only unfrozen river in winter in Northeast China. Probably，one may ask another question:“We have been to Harbin. Why is the Songhua River there frozen instead？”The main reason is in Jilin there is Fengman Hydrolic Power Station 15 km up to the Songhua River. Its water，when traveling through the huge hydrogenerator group in winter，gets warm and keeps its temperature at about 4 C. Therefore，it never freezes after running several tens of kilometers across the city with its vast thermic energy，though at the same time the Songhua Lake has all been frozen far and wide like a mirror. The vast amount of water steam vaporizes from the unfrozen river，meeting the cold air，forming the pattern of miraculous fog and floating and perfusing. When the natural condition is appropriate，it turns into crystal fog on he branches of pines and willows on either bank of the river，thus the world-renowned rime takes into shape.
The careful travelers have already found that trees today are quite different from yesterday for their dark barks apparently have turned white. Yes，this is the rime. But it is pretty thin. Compared with the rime along the bank，it is far from perfect. So far，aren’t many of you very eager to reach the bank of the river？Some of you asked me this morning why you were told to get up so early in the morning，and now I can tell you it is simply because the beautiful rime does not appear every day. You know，it lasts briefly. Furthermore，there are three periods in a day for us to enjoy the scene: viewing the fog at night，watching the rime in the morning，and enjoying the rime falling at noon.
Viewing the fog at night means to see the fog scene on the river before its formation. When it is ten，quiffs and quiffs of fog start to elevate from the river surface，getting larger and larger，thicker and thicker，and violently rising from the river，continuously rolling and spreading. Look at them，how beautiful they are！Some are like locks of spinning yarn，enwinding the old trees on the bank；others look like patches of cloud，drifting about in the air；more others，balls of cotton，continually climbing the cotton mountain，higher and higher. The present Songjiang Mid Road is wrapped n the thick fog，with tall buildings and amp lights shimmering and flicking，thus it seems as if you were in the sky，creating an ecstacy of situating yourself above the heaven. The winter fog pervading the city is a wonder in North China.
Watching the rime in the morning means that we watch it after getting up in the early morning. You can see the thick fog continuously stick to the trees，turing into a silver sea of forest overnight. The willows look lie drooping branches of jade together with cluster of pine needles，yellow chrysanthemums in full blossom wavering and flickering at the fanning of the river cloud. When the morning ray shines through the forest，the rime in various statures appear to be more graceful and elegant. The folk tale gives the rime a pretty nickname“Gift sent in dream”，which goes to the effect that when people were in dream，God sent the purest white and blemishless crystal per flowers all over the sky. It fits perfectly a poem written by Censen a famous Chinese ancient poet in the Tang Dynasty: As if the vernal breeze had com back overnight，Adorning thousands of pear tress with blossoms white.
You can feel this morning that the weather is very clear，and the air is very clean. This is because the flow of the water in the fog purifies the air，which is also why I guess that you enjoy the beautiful rime and breathe the fresh air in the morning.
You can feel this morning that the weather is very clear，and the air is very clean. This is because the flow of the water in the fog purifies the air，which is also why I suggest that you enjoy the beautiful rime and breathe the fresh air in the morning.
A lot of Chinese and international visitors have marveled at the beauty of the rime. On the 9th，Janurary，1991，the former president of China，Jiang Zemin，when visiting Jilin City and enjoying the rime，made complimentary remarks at is beauty:
JilinCitydeserves her in fame，
For her willows dressed in rime.
They look like jade and silver，
Standing on the bank of Songhua River.
As beautiful as it is，the rime lasts only a few hours. So it’s really hard for us to have an opportunity to watch it. Enjoying the flowery rime falling at noon refers to the science of the falling rime. Generally，at around 10 in the morning，the rime begins to cast off one flake after another，and then continues to fall in strings. When the sliver flakes are dancing in the sky，the bright sun casts its light upon them，setting off a particularly blue sky. And they blossom into colorful snow curtains，fluttering down slowly，onto the ground purely white. If on strolls under the sun with purely white snow flakes flying over the blue sky over the Songjiang Road at such moment，you can just let them fall upon your head. And watching snow curtain，you van find seems galloping. Turning around，you can find tall buildings standing upright，the decoration cars moving and the flamboyantly-dressed travelers in high spirit. All this portraits a picture of spring pear flowers dancing about in the sky.
All right，so far as what I have been brietling，we are about to arrive at the Songjiang Road，the best spot to view the rime. Now，ahead of us s a large sculpture，The Boat Rower，a symbol of the city of Jilin，which is made out of granite，engraved upon with 4 big characters“Blazing the Trail and Advance in the Mighty Stream”. Yesterday，I told you about the history of the city of Jilin，and I think you still remember Jilin City as the renowned shipping yard across country in the Qing Dynasty. The choice of the Boat Rower as the symbol of the city matches it’s enterprising spirit pretty well.
Now you might have discovered on the right side f the rime lies an architecture，a catholic church，seemingly covered with a layer of snow. It took the French priest，Lawyer，9 years to complete it since 1917. Composed of two parts—the church and the clock tower，the main body of the building towering toward the sky，is a sight among the rime on the bank of the river.
Now，please put on your cap and handgloves，and follow me to the beautiful rime. Why not take some this pretty view and leave them in your memory？For the rime is not only the fortune of the city of Jilin，but also that of China，and of the world as well.