Editor's Note:
The recent historic low temperatures hitting China this winter may have kept many indoors, but as these photos from the 1970s and 80s show, good times in the ice and snow are still to be had. Photos: Xinhua
Children sit on their wooden ice trolley and slide the device with two sticks on a frozen lake in Heilongjiang on January 31, 1984. 
A young girl skis down from a snow-covered hill at the Yuquan Town, Acheng County, Heilongjiang, on January 14, 1975. 
Residents play ice hockey on the ice arena of Taoran Pavillion Park, Beijing, on December 31, 1982. 
A group of children sit on their ice sledges and slide from the icy hill top in Jilin on February 7, 1979. 
Tourists enjoy the fun of winter on a motor sledge at the Songhua River, Heilongjiang, on January 25, 1988. 
A PE teacher corrects a four-year-old student’s gesture while practicing figure skating in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on January 4, 1987. 
People take iceboating, an ice sailboat with three ice-blade wheels, on the Songhua River, Heilongjiang, on January 31, 1985. 
Skiing lovers enjoy the game on a hillside alongside the Songhua River, Heilongjiang, on June 23, 1981. 
A coach instructs two students to skate, following a line of other kids, at a kindergarten in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on February 14, 1988. 
Pupils play ice sledge on an icy playground at the Qingbin Primary School in Harbin, Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on November 24, 1988. 
1- A Uyghur boy and Xibe girl practice figure skating in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on January 25, 1978.
