Based on the bilingual Parallel Corpus of the Chinese novel A Small Town Called Hibiscus, this paper investigates the English translation of mountain town culture by focusing on three cultural images-the market, the stilt-house and the folk songs.It finds that the culture featured with the era and region in the original text has been partly maintained in the translated version, which not only shaded the vividness and realness of local customs, but also obscured the historic characteristics and ideological changes reflected by the changes of mountain town customs.The differences between the translation and the original version is attributed to three factors:the cultural background of target readers, the cultural identity of the translator, and the need to spread Chinese culture.