“Triple Concerto” on National-Day
Tide of Joy over Xinhai – the 2025 Xinhai Tiandi Life Festival is in full swing.
Every street seemed to pulse with a holiday heartbeat. Three flagship events—at Taizhou Vision Centre, Taizhou International Expo Centre, and Jiaojiang Xinhai Tiandi—opened in lockstep, turning the Golden Week into a city-wide carnival of cars, food, and frontier tech.
I.
At the Auto Culture Week and the 4th Taizhou Gourmet Week at the Zhejiang Southeast Future Auto City in Taizhou Vision Centre, the aisles were already shoulder-to-shoulder by mid-morning.
Chen Meian, 34, came car-hunting. “I saw the promo on WeChat Moments,” she laughed. “Perfect timing, I can spend the holiday here, browsing.”
The crowded Auto Culture Week and the 4th Taizhou Gourmet Week at the Zhejiang Southeast Future Auto City in Taizhou Vision Centre
“I like my ride roomy and smart—today’s line-up looks like it was cooked just for me.” Chen Meian inspected every inch: seat stitching, rear legroom, infotainment speed—nothing escaped her checklist. Reclining in a Li Auto, she raved about the stretch-out space; tapping the HarmonyOS hub in the Huawei Luxeed, she kept nodding at the seamless phone-to-car hand-off; after a spin in the Leopard, the driver-assist tricks had her sold. “They’re all good—I want every single one,” she laughed.
Chen Meian is trying the car.
In the end, it was the new XPeng P7 that stole her heart. “The looks are spot-on, and the voice assistant in the smart cockpit just gets me,” Chen said. When the sales rep chimed in with purchase rebates and a free V-Kool tint package, her mind was made up. “I’ve locked in a test-drive—if it feels right, I’m signing on the dotted line.” She followed the rep to finalize the paperwork, closing her car-browsing tour on the perfect note.
II.
Meanwhile, another carnival was firing up at Taizhou International Expo Centre: the 2025 Zhejiang Specialty Snack Festival & First Taizhou Fine-Snack Week. Zhang Juhe, 60-plus, walked in flanked by her son and grandson—her first mega food fair ever. “All this city fuss can’t beat a village temple fair,” she’d grumbled on the way over.
The crowded 2025 Zhejiang Specialty Snack Festival & First Taizhou Fine-Snack Week.
Inside the cavernous hall, snack-hunters packed every aisle. “So big—so many people!” Zhang Juhe tightened her grip on her grandson’s hand and threaded her way past stall after stall. Local Taizhou bites were everywhere: Danqing Yangwei (literally “sheep-tail” fritters, actually clouds of whipped egg-white wrapped around red-bean paste), plum-blossom cakes, puffy shrimp fritters—scents she’s known since childhood. Out-of-towners joined the line-up too: Hangzhou pepper meat pies, Jinhua egg-filled pancakes, Lishui Qingyuan black-rice balls.
The sheer rainbow of food made her head spin. She finally braked at a stand hawking black-rice mochi. “Let’s make this lunch,” she decided. Every year, just before May Day, she usually picks black-rice leaves (local Vaccinium bracteatum) back home, pounds them into indigo juice, and pounds her own batch of mochi.
The visitor is paying for the snack.
She tore off a thumb-sized piece and popped it into her grandson’s mouth. “Tell grandma—same flavor as at home?” The boy smacked his lips and nodded. “Good!” Only then did she take a bite herself: soft, chewy mochi wrapping sweet bean paste. The familiar taste spread across her tongue, and a satisfied smile spread across her face. Her son teased that they should buy a second box, but she waved him off. “No need—more treats ahead!”
Wrapping Wontons on the spot.
Hand-in-hand with her grandson, Zhang Juhe toured every aisle. They crunched into crispy Jianjun creamy pork ribs—one bite, then another, then another—unable to stop; picked up soy-grilled crucian carp to take home; and exclaimed “We have this in Taizhou too!” at the sight of Longyou steamed rice cake. From her initial “nothing special” to a final “can’t get enough,” the flavour-packed outing gave her National-Day break a perfect, mouth-watering finale.
III.
Across town, the “Tide of Xinhai” 2025 Life Season turned the rainbow runway into a sci-fi playground. With "Mind Over Matter: Tech Carnival" as its centrepiece, nine brain-control stations turned the rainbow runway into a sci-fi playground where thoughts did the steering.
Kids are playing in Xinhai Tiandi.
Kids are choosing ice cream.
“Mom, look! My car won—it really listened to my brain!” Seven-year-old Chen Haoxuan tugged his mother’s hand, cheeks flushed after his headset came off. Li Ms. Li stared, stunned. “Unbelievable. It’s not just fun—it’s a living lesson in neuroscience. He can actually see the power of concentration; beats staring at the TV any day.”
Kids are operating a claw machine with “brainpower”.
Beside a cotton-candy rig that controlled by brainpower, Mr. Wang from Huangyan watched his daughter concentrate on her first “thought-made” treat. “We couldn’t even dream of making candy with our minds when I was little,” he laughed. “Spending National Day on tech this cutting-edge is worth every minute—great bonding and a real eye-opener for her.”
Kids are surrounding the cotton-candy rig controlled by “brainpower”.
The brain-control carnival is only the headliner of “Tide of Xinhai · 2025 Life Season.” The lineup also runs to themed photo sets, a youth-culture bazaar, DIY moon-cakes, sports parties and a “Reunion Feast of Autumn Flavors,” keeping the waterfront buzzing through 4 October.
Sport parties.
Ginger soup hot-pot.
From a horsepower-packed auto show that answered every commute fantasy, to a nostalgia-stirring food rally that let taste buds phone home, to a mind-bending tech carnival where kids piloted toys with brainwaves—three parallel parties covered every age and appetite. National Day in Taizhou felt like flipping through a holiday playlist: grounded “rice-and-oil” moments one second, “poetry-and-distance” thrills the next, all cranked up to full city-energy volume.
Translator：JingJing Shi