Visitors stand on the amazing frozen surface of Sihai Lake in Baicheng city, in Northeast China's Jilin province, on Feb 12. Extraordinarily, myriads of ice balls have gathered under the transparent icy surface, forming blobs resembling the sweet dumplings that Chinese people like to eat during the Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb 15 this year. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
Myriads of rounded ice balls in Sihai Lake look like sweet dumplings. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
The sun hovers over the ice-bound lake outside Baicheng city, in Jilin province. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]
A close-up view of the extraordinary icy surface of Sihai Lake. [Photo provided to gojilin.gov.cn]