Music fountains can be seen in many cities, yet the music mountain we talk about here is a new device introduced to a small village of Zhejiang this summer.

Hongxi Village of Tianning Town, Jiaxing, Zhejiang has many titles such as “National Demonstrative Village of Rural Civilization”, “Demonstrative Village for Building a Well-off Society in an All-round Way of Zhejiang Province” and a provincial 3A tourist attraction.

Chen Liqin, the secretary of the village’s CPC Committee said, it was the idea of all villagers to create a floating lake fountain. The villagers wanted to show that the countryside was no longer antiquated as most people imagine. The village itself is a tourist attraction. The fountain will bring more fun to everyone. The fountain is located in Shenbeijing River of the village. The river flows in a zigzag course through the village. The position of the fountain happens to be a wide river surface.

After days of trial operation, on the night of August 16, the villagers staged their talent show. The mountain showed changeful shapes and lights to the loud music of “Entering a New Era”. On the water stage before the fountain, fashionable women with an average age of 45 staged a dance in lotus-like dress. It was crowded with audiences at the riverside and on the bridge, from which thunder-like cheers and applauds were echoing in the air.

Chen Liqin said, he was in a busy state these days, as many villagers from other villages came to see the fountain. These days he was going to contact the fountain company and have an app installed on the mobilephone of several village cadres. When it was 7 pm, the cadres would be able to turn on the fountain through the app. Isn't it cool!

As a tourist attraction village, the equipment of Hongxi Village is more than just the fountain. It also has the bridge and the stream, the white wall and black tiles, the terraced houses, the road signs at intersections such as “3D walls”, “B&B”, “Pioneer Park” eastwards, and the “Angling Center” and “Happy Farm” northwards etc. 

Executive Editor: Ke Ye

Translation: Ke Ye, Wenjin Chen