What is Ice candle?
{{no sources|date=January 2022}} Ice candle is a kind of [[candle]] made from [[water]]. It is fantastical and looks like a [[lamp-shade]]. It has been made in cold areas in [[winter]]. It [[Melting|melts]] quickly. [[File:Ice candle festival.jpg|thumb|Ice Candle Festival in Shimokawa]] == History == The Ice candle was first made in [[Shimokawa]], [[Hokkaidō|Hokkaido]]. In Shimokawa, there are few days in a year when the [[temperature]] is 30 degrees below [[Freezing point|freezing]]. The members of “Egg of Columbus”, which is a Town Development Idea Semester, had thought about some ideas on how people could enjoy a cold winter with [[snow]]. In 1985, they found a sentence, “...the [[flame]] moves in the ice block, it changes to the natural lamp-shade quickly, the flame in the natural and pale clear [[glass]] lights up in the [[garden]] fantastically...” This is from “Live in [[north]] literary calendar, Northern area [[column]]” written by [[Ryuichi Ito]] who was a [[professor]] of [[Hokkaido university|Hokkaido University]] of education. He wrote about the candle which is made by [[Scandinavia|Scandinavian]] [[Finland]] children. The Egg of Columbus got some hints to create the Ice candle from that sentence. In 1986, the Ice candle was created. They put a wish for people to be able to spend winter happily in it. In 1987, the Ice candle was introduced on TV. From around that time, townspeople have made it at their own homes. Now, the Ice candle is known by Japanese people nationwide and loved by people living in cold areas. [[File:Hokkaido Shimokawa-town.png|thumb|Shimokawa in Hokkaido]] == How to make == To make the Ice candle, you need a [[bucket]], water and a cold environment to freeze water. At night the temperature is under -16 degrees, put water into the bucket, then get it outside and through the night. Next morning, turn it upside down and take out the ice if the water has almost frozen. Flow outside the water which couldn’t freeze. Put a candle into the hole of the ice. Not to break it, treat it c