“赫哲”在满语中意指“东方的人们”,这支少数民族生活在北纬45度以北的黑龙江、松花江和乌苏里江的严寒地区。他们自古以来沿江而居,渔猎为业。每年十一月到春节前,寒凝北国,冰锁三江的时候,就是赫哲人传统的冬捕季节。时至今日,仍有近百名赫哲人从事这一古老的职业,延续着冰封中的生机。 In the Manchu language, “Hezhe” means “people in the East,” a minority living in the cold regions of Heilongjiang, Songhua and Ussuri Rivers north of 45 degrees north latitude. They have lived along the river since ancient times, fishing and hunting industry. Every year from November to the Spring Festival, when the North China frosts and the ice locks the Three Rivers, it is the traditional wintering season of the Hezhe people. Today, there are still nearly a hundred He Zhe people engaged in this ancient occupation, continuing the vitality in the ice.