Winter always be popular in the north region of the world although the temperature can be brutal dropping to minus 10 degrees Celsius or worse. Citizens can go head to the city’s central lakes for frosty with different entertainments on ice. /VCG Photo

Shichahai or Houhai is a popular place that people like to gather for ice skating in Beijing in winter. Ice bikes are one of the best ways to ride on the ice which needs to mix a good workout for player’s legs with some boy-racer adrenaline by skidding way round Shichahai. /VCG Photo

Chair sleds are one of the commonest and traditional sliding styles in Beijing. Two wooden school chairs bolted onto runners and propelled across the ice using what look like ski poles, but are two fire pokers welded together with a screwdriver handle stuck to one end. /VCG Photo

The conventional way is ice skating on the frozen lake. People can spin around the freezing lake. Citizens were playing ice skating at Taoranting Park in Beijing. /VCG Photo