Meandering water channels connect the ponds, which serve as swimming pools in summer, and there is a big pond at the mountain's base. Water channels provide rafting courses during the summer months.
In the middle of the mountain, the children's park features attractions drawing inspiration from Western fairy tales, ancient Chinese legends and revolutionary stories.
"There are so many themes in the park, but it is fun," said Li Mingming, who brought her 3-year-old daughter to the park. "I can travel in a well-decorated royal horse carriage, a Chinese rickshaw or a small train built in the style of the early 20th century."
At the terminal of the railway station, visitors can traverse a tunnel, experience the life of ancient miners and view the relics of a coal mine from the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
At a nearby campground, overnight visitors can choose from a Mongolian ethnic tent, a modern tent or a bus-turned motor home.
Han has completed museums about stones resembling flying saucers, dinosaur fossils and plant fossils beside the children's park.
"I want tourists to not only enjoy themselves in the area, but also learn more about nature and Taiyuan while experiencing the projects," Han said.
After a refrigeration house was built on the mountain, Han invited world-class masters to make 268 ice sculptures, of fairy tale characters and icons ranging from the seven dwarves to the Statue of Liberty.
"I sold ice cream before selling milk. I asked the artists to color the ice in various colors like ice cream," Han said. Han's dairy company is based in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, but he and his wife are Taiyuan natives.
At the top of the mountain perches a castle built from 1915 to 1948 by local warlord Yan Xishan and the Japanese army, as the mountain is the gateway to Taiyuan in the east, and served as a strategic site during the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Han spent tens of millions of yuan rebuilding the bunker group, considered by some as the world's largest, which has a total construction area of nearly 5,000 square meters. The castle has three stories above the ground and two floors below, and is connected to other scattered underground bunkers, including one used by "comfort women" during the war.
In the past two years, dozens of businesspeople have visited Han, seeking to buy a share of his amusement park, Huashijie. The combined pleasure of the visitors and the interest of the investors reinforced Han's feelings that all of his efforts paid off.
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