Mohe: Chasing the aurora at the northernmost point in China

Mohe is the northernmost tip of China's territory. Four days and three nights, between Beiji Village and the snowy plains, chase a rare green aurora.

At Beiji Village, find a postcard from the "Northernmost Post Office" to send to a friend, then take a photo in front of the boundary marker of the northernmost family. Below your feet is the Heilongjiang River, across the river are Russian forests, so quiet you can hear your own breath.

In the depths of winter, Beihong Village is China's northernmost primitive village, with wooden wooden huts and chimneys, and snow mushrooms forming a fairy tale. At minus thirty or forty degrees, the air freezes into ice, but the heated kang inside makes it hard to sit still.

If you're lucky, you might encounter the Northern Lights on a clear night, with green curtains dancing in the sky—the most luxurious gift of this trip. Even if not, a sky full of stars and the Milky Way is enough to heal.

Visit Longjiang First Bend to see Heilongjiang. Here, a Ω-shaped bend is drawn, and the island's Golden Ring Island is as white as jade. Climbing up to the viewing platform, you can take in the entire course of the river.

Mohe's coldness filters the world into pure white. When you look up at minus thirty degrees and see the aurora, you understand the romance of the word "northernmost"—it's both loneliness and the extreme.