(Clearwisdom.net) Everything co-exists with its form and spirit. The form manifests as the external appearance, while the spirit is hidden internally. The spirit manifests through the form, and the form is a carrier that manifests as the existence of the spirit. It doesn't matter if the form expresses things directly or indirectly, or if it expresses things clearly or obscurely, it will show its inborn nature. Therefore, everything will have an external appearance corresponding to its inner spirit.
The NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular surpassed the boundary between Eastern and Western culture and values. It has won praise from all audiences, and opened the gates of people's hearts. The reason for the strong resonance in people's souls is not only because of the power of divine culture with its profound inner meanings, but also because of the artistic performance and its extreme elegance, showing wondrous divinity, and far surpassing all existing performances. In other words, because of the spiritually pure and graceful beauty of its form, the Spectacular fully manifested divine culture. The combination of divine culture and the presentation of form made the Spectacular naturally serene and in complete harmony.
Beauty, derived from heaven and earth, is a natural property of matter that is pure, serene, good, and holy. It is one of the natural expressions of the vast cosmos' colorful beings. Hence, if the creation of the performance and its beauty conforms with the characteristics of the cosmos, demonstrating the good nature of everything between heaven and Earth, then this beauty will be graceful, holy and truly moving to people.
The first element of beauty presented to people by the NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular is its elegant, colorful, and wonderful costumes. While these costumes are so marvelous and beautiful, they are not luxurious and they are not tacky. They are very well made, but not overly exaggerated. They truthfully represent the divine style of ancient times. The artistic effects that they reflect are excellent. These costumes cover a large span from the heavenly paradises to the human world, from long ago ancient times to the great Tang Dynasty, to modern times. The costumes in each program have their own special meaning, yet the costumes throughout the entire Spectacular seem to be sewn together with an invisible thread and are like a main theme leading the whole show. It seems one can see the entire show through each item on the program, and each show's items together form the whole body of its divine culture. We can say that the costumes of the Spectacular combined heaven and Earth, perfectly representing the spirit of divine culture, therefore, the entire Spectacular reached its pure, natural, holy, elegant divine grace.
After talking about the costumes, let us look at the astounding effects of the background scenery and lighting. The scenery used in the Spectacular brought a dream-like pleasure to the audience whether it was describing divine lands or the human world, ancient history or modern times. The beauty of the background scenery was so far and vast, expanding people's minds like they were touring a heavenly kingdom. It is no doubt that these scenery paintings are masterpieces created for history. If the painters did not have boundless hearts that encompass heaven and Earth and even the cosmos, they could not have produced such surpassing beauty.
The effect of performing arts largely depends on a performer's body movements, facial expressions, eye glances, etc. Especially in large scale dances, the facial expressions and eye glances are very important to express the spirit, along with the excellent body movements. We saw that the dancers' movements were very elegant and smooth, balancing yin and yang, as if divine beauties came down from the heavens. They cooperated together perfectly, resulting in the whole show reaching a perfect harmony that was flawless. The expression of these dancers was very pure, righteous, solid, serene, elegant, and holy. There was no trace of a lack of quality. Their true spiritual beauty was naturally expressed. The performers' pure, serene, benevolent nature and the spiritual world naturally manifested in their dances. Because of this, the true beauty of their crystal-clean and pure performance carried the irresistible power to encompass heaven and Earth, cleansing all impurities.
During the Spectacular, the audience not only saw the graceful, calm beauty of the ladies, but also enjoyed the men's muscular, firm, jumping, open-minded characters. Echoing this was the splendid re-appearance of long-lost historical scenes. They energetically performed the dramas of history, and retold history with lively rhythms. The dances uplifted the audience's spirit. The Spectacular was designed with yin and yang in balance, while movement and calmness combined perfectly to allow the program to achieve the best aesthetic effect. This is one of the splendid crystals formed by the Spectacular's light. It did so by following the course of nature, and achieving harmony between heaven and Earth.
Another aesthetic highlight of the Spectacular was its lofty and far-reaching themes. The time span covered was huge, and the themes and contents encompassed the entire universe, including heaven and Earth. Along with endorsing profound divine culture, the Spectacular did not use the constantly seen ambiguous, detailed, old performing forms, but instead used simple, clear, direct, clean, pure ways. The simple, clear, pure ways did not reduce the manifestation of the themes, but instead doubled the effect due to the direct performing style. People obtained a new feeling of being thoroughly alive.
Based on the audience's reactions, the programs allowed them learn about divine culture, recognize the supreme beauty of divine culture, and understand the lofty and profound themes of the Spectacular. The ancients described good music as "circling the beams for three days." The high and profound themes shown through the Spectacular will definitely not disappear in three to five days. They will shake the origins of lives, echo within these origins, and carry an infinite effect.
The high and far-reaching themes of the show's art originated from profound contents. Its supreme performing beauty depended on supreme artistic inner meaning. The creation and showing of profound themes and supreme performing beauty requires people with high missions and spiritual realms. In other words, performing divine culture requires people embodied with divine culture. Passing down divine culture requires enlightened beings with high morals. The performing beauty manifested through the Spectacular is a true manifestation of the deep understanding of divine culture and its realms given by the performers, who are all cultivators.
Therefore, we say that this supreme beauty is not derived from the secular world, but comes from divine culture, from Falun Gong practitioners' cultivation realms, and comes from the great universal law.
The supreme beauty manifested through the Spectacular far surpasses people's sensory organs. It is a huge force, like the spring rain quietly moisturizing the land. This supreme beauty is a gift from heaven and Earth. It surpasses the boundary of aesthetics to awaken people's long sealed memory while presenting its beauty. It is creating the splendid aesthetics of the future while washing clean the old degeneration.
March 10, 2007
