A giant snowman is being built on the banks of the Songhua River in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China. The snowman is supposed to be about 18 meters tall and made of 2,000 cubic meters of snow. It will be finished in a few days.

December 7 marks the beginning of “Great Snow,” one of 24 solar terms that have been used for thousands of years to divide up the traditional Chinese calendar.