Jiamusi sits within the broad river country of the Sanjiang Plain, where the Songhua and Ussuri shape wetlands, farms and riverside settlements. Hezhen communities maintain their own language and cultural practices across this region, while rice cultivation and fishing remain connected to its waters. The city looks outward to these working landscapes as much as inward to its urban streets.
At Jiejinkou, fish-skin making links Hezhen material knowledge to clothing, museum collections and contemporary fish-skin art. The work moves through distinct stages, from preparing a skin to cutting, joining and decorating it.
Imakan is a Hezhen oral tradition combining prose and verse in spoken and sung performance. In Jiejinkou, documentation, teaching and public performance have become part of a community-centred safeguarding effort.
ReadForty-five kilometres northeast of Tongjiang, Jiejinkou’s cultural village sits beneath Jiejin Mountain in the lower river country. Its public displays bring Hezhen history, fishing life, fish-skin culture and oral performance into one place.
ReadBachan’s fishing-and-hunting cultural area offers a distinct Hezhen perspective within Tongjiang. Municipal materials connect the site with fish-skin craft, Imakan performance, school teaching and heritage transmission.
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Fuyuan’s wetland park on Heixiazi Island uses wooden boardwalks to carry visitors through a landscape shaped by rivers, marsh and an international boundary.
ReadFuyuan’s Dongji Pagoda rises 81 metres above Heixiazi Island. Its nine storeys, octagonal form and symbolic plaza make a modern tower into a public expression of the city’s eastern identity.
ReadFuyuan’s fishing culture now includes cooperatives, cold-water fish branding and seasonal public events. A local cooperative’s live-fish sales show how river resources connect to modern livelihoods and conservation work.
ReadA 2,200-hectare national wetland park sits within Fujin’s wider network of river margins, marshes and protected waters in the Sanjiang Plain.
ReadFujin’s rice landscape is built from water management, local labour and increasingly precise agricultural tools. A farmer’s account of smart irrigation shows how one field’s routine is changing.
ReadIn Huachuan, the Songhua and its tributaries form a water network that reaches from riverside settlements to marsh, island and farmland. A proposed forest park also links river wetlands with forest and archaeological landscapes.
ReadHuanan’s woodlands support a diverse forest economy, from understory planting to berries and mushrooms. Local policy increasingly frames these products through cultivation and protection rather than unrestricted gathering.
ReadTangyuan sits between the eastern Xiaoxing’anling and the Sanjiang Plain. Its many tributaries, lowland ponds and a mid-century irrigation project show how forest, river and cultivated land fit together.
ReadBachan’s fishing-and-hunting cultural area offers a distinct Hezhen perspective within Tongjiang. Municipal materials connect the site with fish-skin craft, Imakan performance, school teaching and heritage transmission.
Fuyuan’s Dongji Pagoda rises 81 metres above Heixiazi Island. Its nine storeys, octagonal form and symbolic plaza make a modern tower into a public expression of the city’s eastern identity.
Fujin’s rice fields and protected wetlands share the lowlands of the Sanjiang Plain.
Fuyuan’s fishing culture now includes cooperatives, cold-water fish branding and seasonal public events. A local cooperative’s live-fish sales show how river resources connect to modern livelihoods and conservation work.
Fuyuan’s wetland park on Heixiazi Island uses wooden boardwalks to carry visitors through a landscape shaped by rivers, marsh and an international boundary.
The Songhua is Huachuan’s main river, running 122 kilometres through the county among six smaller rivers and thirteen ponds.
Huanan’s landscape includes extensive woodland, wetlands and grassland, while perilla cultivation connects household farming with a local agricultural identity.
Jiejinkou’s Hezhen Cultural Village presents song, fishing life, fish-skin culture and Imakan storytelling.
Tangyuan sits between the eastern Xiaoxing’anling and the Sanjiang Plain. Its many tributaries, lowland ponds and a mid-century irrigation project show how forest, river and cultivated land fit together.