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May 27, 2012 Leave a comment
May 26, 2012 | By Shan Jia
(Minghui.org)
“Group Practice”
Size: 83 cm x 58 cm
(From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa’s Introduction.)
Category: Art Designs
April 28, 2012 Leave a comment
Epoch Times Staff
Created: April 28, 2012
Last Updated: April 28, 2012
SYDNEY—Former politician Bob Vinnicombe, who now campaigns for freedom in China, saw Shen Yun Performing Arts for the fifth time this year and said it gets better every year.
Speaking after a performance on Saturday afternoon, April 28, at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre by the Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company, Mr. Vinnicombe gave tribute to the dedication and talent of the performers.
“I’ve seen the show I think five times now,” Mr. Vinnicombe said. “Every year it’s been different, every year it’s been good.”
“There are so many highlights. I like the colour, I like the coordination, I like the imagination, I like the costumes, and I like the great exhibition of the dedication and the talent of all the dancers and all the performers.”
Mr. Vinnicombe is a former candidate for the One Nation Party and now runs websites raising human rights issues in China. He said the show demonstrated the beauty of traditional Chinese culture, which had been all but destroyed by more than 60 years of communist rule in China.
“It’s a celebration of the human spirit,” Mr. Vinnicombe said about Shen Yun. “It shows how the human spirit cannot be crushed by a totalitarian regime. It shows how we must keep all our heritage and all our traditions, no matter what culture we come from. Keeping our heritage and our culture and traditions ensures we can live under freedom.”
New York-based Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese culture through dance and music. The show brings to life Chinese myths and legends from the various Chinese dynasties, and the culture of numerous ethnic groups living in China. It also raises contemporary human rights issues such as the Chinese regime’s persecution against the Falun Dafa spiritual discipline since 1999.
Mr. Vinnicombe said the Shen Yun dancers were showing the “real China” to the world.
“I would like everyone in Australia to see this show so they can see the real China. The real China is 5,000 years of history, 5,000 years of culture, 5,000 years of humanity, of truthful living and of compassion, which is what the Falun Gong movement is all about.
“This is the real China you see when you come and see the Shen Yun show. It’s not the fake China which is promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, which is just a culture of money and greed and exploitation,” Mr. Vinnicombe said.
Reporting by NTD Television and Ethan Yang.
Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, has three touring companies that perform simultaneously around the world, with a mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. Shen Yun Performing Arts New York Company will perform at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre through May 6.
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April 5, 2012 Leave a comment
[PureInsight.org] It was a peaceful night at my aunt’s home, and I was watching Shen Yun Performing Arts on DVD. I quietly listened to the music that sounded like music endowed by Gods. I enjoyed each graceful dance that appeared just like beautiful fairies descending to earth. I experienced on a deep level the semi-divine culture with its history of five thousand years. Tonight, I was experiencing Shen Yun. My soul, which had long been submerged in the dust of this world, had a moment of peace and was reveling in the purity and finesse of Shen Yun’s music and dance. I was in a pleasant mood with a relaxed mind.
I watched the unique charm of classical oriental dance. The performers, exuding beauty and kindness moved gracefully, performing each dance as wonderfully as the heavenly wonderland it came from. The vivid and rich varieties of dances exhibited historical legends and tales. Behind these classical dances is the deep inner meaning of ancient traditional culture.
I listened to the wonderful blend of music and the beautiful low and high tones of the traditional bel canto. Be it the pure music or the graceful dances, every element of Shen Yun expresses the pure beauty and compassion of a divine culture, passed down over a historic period of five thousand years.
However, think about the current world where moral values are degenerating. Why has this world become so dirty and so dark? It is because people’s minds have been flooded and dazed with desires for fame and fortune. They are scrambling and intriguing over self interest. They are forsaking compassion in favor of indulging in worldly desires for material possessions. This is the result of the cruelty of the evil forces so brutally suppressing good people who have compassionate minds and thoughts. They have brewed up an evil storm that has shrouded the whole community in a haze of darkness.
Experiencing Shen Yun not only relaxes our physical body but also purifies our thoughts. Although society has become dirty and dark with many people confused and following a degenerate path, compassionate people have insisted on appealing for compassion from the bottom of their hearts. They have been making efforts to influence people to improve their morality. No matter how the evil forces persecute them, these kind people are firmly holding to their beliefs like the pure and elegant plum blossoms withstanding cold winds and snow to bloom with the flower of truth.
Please keep in mind that this earth, where many immortals have descended, still needs our sincere compassionate people in order to remain. The dawn will break through the darkness and justice will ultimately prevail over evil. The truth will eventually be exposed to the world. The divine culture, passed down over five thousand years will return. Sincere and pure smiles will appear on the faces of all compassionate people. The bright lights of Truth, Compassion and Forbearance will shine on the motherland.
August 8, 2011
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2011/8/8/76540.html
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April 1, 2012 Leave a comment
By Kan Zhong Guo Staff
30/03/2012
According to history, the world’s first magnetic compass was constructed in China during the Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.). The first compass was made by balancing a piece of loadstone carved in the shape of a ladle on a round, bronze plate. The first person to use the compass for navigational purposes was Zheng He (1371-1435), a Muslim from Yunnan Province. He made seven ocean voyages between 1405 and 1433, according to the wishes of the emperor at that time.
Zhou Dynasty
Chinese medicine was not founded by one particular person. Rather, it came into being through the group efforts of various people who painstakingly contributed to its advancement. According to The Book of Rites (literally “record of rites”), which described the social forms, governmental system, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou Dynasty (1050 c.–256 B.C.), recorded the court physicians’ division of medical teachings into internal medicine, surgery, nutrition, and veterinary medicine. The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, which appeared during the Warring States period (475-221 B.C.), systematically presented what was known in China as physiology, pathology, diagnostics, treatment, and preventive medicine. Bian Que, a noted physician at that time, was the first person to use a patient’s pulse to diagnosis illnesses. Shen Nong’s Cannon on Materia Medica, which was China’s earliest book on pharmacology, was systematically compiled during the first century. The physician, Hua Tuo, a famous physician in the 2nd century, performed abdominal surgery using a special anesthetic powder.
Warring States and Taoist Alchemists
Although many different groups and individuals helped invent gunpowder, Taoist alchemists were among the most important contributors to this invention. During the reign of Emperor Wu Di (156-87 B.C.) of the Han Dynasty, extensive research was done in the field of eternal life. Some of the substances used by the alchemists in their studies were sulfur and saltpeter, and as such, many fires broke out. Wei Boyang, a famous Taoist alchemist of the Eastern Han Dynasty and author of the book, Book of Kinship of the Three, is recognized as the first person to have documented the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD. By the 8th century, in the mid-Tang Dynasty, sulfur and saltpeter were combined with charcoal to create what is known today as huoyao or gunpowder.
Tang Dynasty and Bi Sheng
The technique of using carved wood blocks to print images and text appeared in the Tang dynasty, during the 7th century. Block printing reached it’s golden age during the Song dynasty, between 960-1279, as the ruling class at that time encouraged the central and local governments to publish large number of books. Movable type was first invented by Bi Sheng of the Song dynasty between 1041 and 1048. Bi Sheng’s invention was recorded by his contemporary, Shen Kuo, in his Dreampool Essays. During the 13-14th centuries, Wang Zhen made an important contribution to the development of movable type printing when he replaced the fragile clay-based printing blocks with a durable type of wood.
Ts’ai Lun
The year 105 A.D. is often cited as the year in which papermaking was invented. Historical records show that Ts’ai Lun, an official of the Imperial Court reported the invention to the Eastern Han Emperor Ho-di. However, according to the World Archaeological Congress eNewsletter 11, August 2006, 200 pieces of ancient paper were recently discovered in the Xuanquanzhi ruins of Dunhuang in China’s northwest Gansu Province. The papers contained legible Chinese writings dating back to 8 B.C. and are believed to have been made during the period of Emperor Wu, who reigned between 140 BC and 86 BC. Whether or not Ts’ai Lun was the actual inventor of paper, he is still credited with playing a major role in developing a material that revolutionized papermaking in his country.
Western Zhou
Another important contribution by the Chinese is Chinese embroidery. Archaeological evidence shows that embroidery dates back to the Western Zhou period (11th-8th centuries B.C.). In 1974, archaeologists found evidence of embroidery in an excavated tomb in Baoji Shaanxi Province. The tomb contained impressions of plaited stitch embroidery. With the arrival of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), embroidery was used extensively for decorating garments and articles for daily use.
Lei Zu the Wife of the Yellow Emperor Huang Di
One of China’s greatest contributions to the world was the production of raw silk and the raising of silkworms. Legend has it that Lei Zu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor of Chia, was sitting under a mulberry tree in her palace garden, when all of a sudden she heard a rustling in the leaves above her. When she looked up, she saw silkworms spinning their cocoons. So she took one in her hand and found that the silken thread was shining, soft, and flexible. She then thought that if she could wind the silken thread off of the cocoon and weave it into cloth, the clothes produced from the silk would be very beautiful.
(Think Quest)
Source - http://en.kanzhongguo.com/culture_history/ancient_chinese_inventors_and_inventions.html
April 1, 2012 Leave a comment
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February 17, 2012 Leave a comment
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Germany
(Clearwisdom.net) Ten years ago on February 14, 2002, Andre Huber, a Falun Gong practitioner from Germany, went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Chinese Communist regime’s illegal persecution of Falun Gong. He was joined by three practitioners from Sweden, one from the U.S., and one from Japan. The Chinese policemen unlawfully arrested, imprisoned, and repatriated them. During his arrest and in police custody, Huber was beaten and insulted.
Falun Gong practitioner Andre Huber from Germany is unlawfully arrested at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
“I held up a yellow banner that says ‘Falun Dafa is good’”
“At 2 p.m. on February 14, 2002, I held up a yellow banner that says ‘Falun Dafa is good’ on Tiananmen Square and shouted ‘Falun Dafa is good!’” Huber paused here. His mind seemed to go back to ten years ago. “Just like I expected, in less than ten seconds, policemen jumped upon and held me down on the ground,” Huber continued.
Policemen Fiercely Elbowed My Neck and Head
According to Huber, a few seconds after he raised his banner, several policemen from 50 yards away were immediately alerted and rushed toward him. The police knocked him down, seized his banner, and tried to drag him into a police vehicle. He got away and tried to stand up. The group of police grabbed his arms and legs and picked him up. Huber was put in a second police car. “I grabbed a handle on the door and tried to escape but they pulled me away,” Huber remembered. In a photograph taken at the time of his arrest, he counted seven policemen holding him.
Huber was pushed down on the floor of the police car. “My head was pressed down between my legs and a policeman sat on my back. I couldn’t move and had a hard time breathing. Before the car took off, the police in the driver seat hit my head and neck with his elbow fiercely. Other police kept hitting my head.”
The police grabbed Huber by his collar and dragged him into the Tiananmen Police Station. “At the moment, I realized that I had only one shoe on, my belt and sweater were torn, and my backpack was missing,” Huber remembered. He was photographed and interrogated before he was put into another vehicle. This time, about 15 police officers went into the vehicle with him. No one told him where they were going, why he was captured, what would happen, and how long it was going to take.
Police: In China, there is no such thing as international law
Huber and his fellow practitioners from outside China were taken to a building near Beijing Airport that “looked like a hotel but was empty inside.” Three officers interrogated him, asking for his name, address, and passport. He told them that he would not answer any questions before he contacted the German Embassy. The police threatened to imprison him in China for a long time. Huber told them it was his civil right to contact the German Embassy and it was also his basic human right according to international law.
As they entered a gate, Huber thought he was being taken to a prison. He told an officer, “I don’t want to go to a prison, why do you imprison me? I am protected by international law.” The officer told him, “In China, there is not such thing as international law. The UN has no say here. You will be locked up for five years and no one will know where you are.”
The Prison Was Very Cold and Smelled Like Feces
Huber, along with a Swedish and a Japanese practitioner, were locked in a cell less than 15 square feet. There were a total of ten people locked in the cell. The walls were cracked and the ceiling was full of spider webs. There was a surveillance camera on the ceiling to monitor their every movement. There was a hole in the ground, which served as the ‘toilet’ and shower drainage. The cell smelled like feces. Huber remembered it being very cold. Everyone could only sleep on his side against one another. Still they often woke up at night freezing. During the day, they had to sit on the ground facing the toilet all the time if they were not eating or resting. They were not allowed to go outside.
Chinese Cell Mates Found that the Foreigners Were Normal and Polite
Huber discovered that the practitioners’ appearance surprised their Chinese cell mates. The Chinese inmates wondered why there were so many Westerners practicing Falun Gong and why they came all the way to China to protest the persecution. They found that these practitioners were “normal, healthy, rational, polite and sincere, unlike what it says on TV.” A young inmate who spoke good English translated for Huber and helped him clarify the facts about the persecution to the other inmates.
Huber noticed that every time he mentioned Jiang Zemin, the Chinese leader who launched the persecution of Falun Gong, the inmates began to actively engage in conversations to criticize Jiang. There were many jokes that belittled Jiang. Huber remembered one of them clearly to this day, “Every day Jiang wakes up and the first thing he asks is: Where did the Falun Gong practitioners protest?” Huber realized that Falun Gong had great impact in China and Jiang’s regime was being laughed at for being scared of Falun Gong.
Beijing Police Violated My Human Rights Because I Practice Falun Gong
Huber was detained for three days. On February 17, he was taken to a representative from the German Embassy. Only then did the German consul learn that Huber was locked in a detention center. On February 18, he boarded a plane and headed home. “I was illegally detained in Beijing for 94 hours, including the 60 hours in a detention center. The Chinese police beat me. I remained polite and non-violent. I did not insult any police. They police in Beijing violated my human rights only because I am a Falun Gong practitioner,” said Huber.
Huber at a 2011 Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Art Exhibition in Freiburg, Germany, talking to people about Falun Gong.
A Steadfast Falun Dafa Practitioner
Huber has shown an interest in Buddhism since he was young. His mother introduced him to Falun Dafa in 1998. For the past 14 years, he has been a steadfast and diligent practitioner. He is a school teacher and when he has a chance, he tells the facts about Falun Dafa to other teachers and students. He has also spoken about Dafa to the city mayor, the city councilors, and the media.
Posting date: 2/16/2012
Category: Truth Clarification to Save Sentient Beings
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2012/2/14/在天安门广场举“法轮大法好”横幅的德国人-253069.html
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