Music Video

New Dream of Hushan's Musing Valley

This music video was put together by a number of university student activists to protest the Hushan Dam project. The video is in Chinese but here's a translation of the lyrics to give you an idea of what it's about.

Title: (Click title to view video) New Dream of Hushan's Musing Valley

Only you know You-cing Gu under water can't be told.

Spirits inside took no hold,
Worry that dawns have since gone,
Tai-so devil earned a load,
Tyrant's plan ever bold,
Smiled more as money rolled,
let the land rot.

Begonia ravenii* begged in vain,
Give it a reason to go,
or pretend nothings happening at all,
Because the pocket can't be filled.

As the demon exploits the water to its full,
Who hears the silent sorrows afar,
Beautiful blossoms, hops and crawls,
Spotted no more in Hushan.
With the Fairy Pitta gone forever,
take no photos in Musing Valley.

Smiled more as money rolled,
let the land rot.
Begonia ravenii* begged in vain,
give it a reason to go,
or pretend nothings happening at all,
because the pocket can't be filled.

As the demon exploits the water to its full,
Who hears the silent sorrows afar,
Beautiful blossoms, hops and crawls,
Spotted no more in Hushan.
With the Fairy Pitta gone forever,
enjoy nothing but a Fairy specimen.

Cherish the little creatures,
Stop building dams !
Take care of the land around us,
Where our treasure lies.


*Begonia ravenii -Taiwanese Begonia, a protected, rare and endemic Begonia species found only in the hills of Taichung, Yunlin, and Chiayi Counties. The species was only described as recently as 1988 by C.I.Peng and Y.K.Chen in Taiwan Botanical Bulletin, Academia Sinica 29: 217-222, 1988.

Begonia ravenii photographed in Youqing valley, Hushan 2007-02-05.