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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.
Huanan’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.
In 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.
Fujin’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.
A 2,200-hectare national wetland park sits within Fujin’s wider network of river margins, marshes and protected waters in 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 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.
Fuyuan’s wetland park on Heixiazi Island uses wooden boardwalks to carry visitors through a landscape shaped by rivers, marsh and an international boundary.
Bachan’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.
Forty-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.
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.
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.