By Epoch Times reporter Tang Hong from Paris

(Clearwisdom.net) At 10:00 p.m. on March 1, the third performance of the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular came to a successful close. The performers struck such an ebullient rapport with the audience that thunderous applause broke out in the theater from time to time throughout the show. In the audience, there were also quite a number of people from mainland China. Mr. Zhang Jian was one of them.

Zhang Jian at the International Convention Center in Paris (Tang Hong from the Epoch Times)

Mr. Zhang Jian was the chief director of the students picket team on Tiananmen Square during the June 4^th student democratic movement in 1989. He was arrested and detained, but managed to flee overseas later. He believes that in the face of the dark environment in mainland China, the Chinese Spectacular has brought people bright hope.

Mr. Zhang said, "The show was very good. I have watched the show every year for the last three years, and each time I was even more moved and inspired." He was particularly impressed with the performance that depicted ordinary people stepping forward to oppose the persecution of Falun Gong cultivators. "Nowadays, what we often experience is that people feel indifferent towards the persecution happening around them, but the Chinese Spectacular has pointed out a bright path for people, and that is to resist the persecution together; the brightness will defeat the darkness."

Mr. Zhang said that the show was truly moving, and the performances that inspired him most were the two drum dances: one was "Drummers of the Tang Court" and the other one was the dance, "Victory Drums." Through the drum beats he could see the unyielding spirit of the cultivators, and he could feel that in the next few years, the righteous force will be making the final charge against the evil force. Zhang Jian said that when the student movement in 1989 was being crushed by the Chinese Communist regime, a famous French singer sang a song called "Tiananmen," and at the ending of the song the music incorporated small battle drums used when the French army was making a charge.

Mr. Zhang said, in mainland China, the evil Chinese Communist force is still persecuting spiritual cultivators, political dissidents, human rights defenders, and even on the eve of the Olympics, they are still rampantly arresting people. He said that the drum beats encourage people to go forward without stopping.

Zhang Jian was deeply touched by two dances "The Risen Lotus Flower" and "The Power of Awareness." He said in the performance that showed three female Falun Gong practitioners being beaten in jail, he saw handwritten characters "Falun Dafa is good" on the high wall next to the iron window. "This is a scene you see often in mainland China. One can often see women and children, although a seemingly weak group, they stand on the very front line to resist the dictatorship with unyielding will; day and night they are resisting the most evil force as the Chinese Communist Party," he said.

"Facing such a cultivation group, how can one not say they are outstanding? If one does not dare to say even this, then one needs to check one's integrity. When the good has defeated the evil, when democracy has defeated dictatorship, when the new era is born, people will forget hatred, but they will not forget those indifferent onlookers when the evil was doing evil things. From a certain perspective, the onlookers are just as brazen as the evildoers."

Mr. Zhang Jian mentioned three types of people who oppose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP): The first type are those who hold grievances against the CCP; the second type are those who have developed an addiction to opposing the CCP; there is another type who have become exhausted and ill during their resistance against the CCP. "From the performances, we can see that Falun Gong practitioners do not hold any hatred, nor do they have any strong interest in opposing the CCP, and they are not sick at all. They look at the evil from a much higher perspective, and we can see sincere smiles on every performer's face. Their performances are like flowing clouds and running water, silently nourishing all. What is lacking most in today's world is 'truthfulness', and one can see falsehood, evilness and violence everywhere. The Chinese Spectacular is like a pond of clear water," he said.

Mr. Zhang Jian also mentioned that the CCP is also trying hard to export performances like dances and acrobatics, and even though some are also of very high standards technically, when you watch them, you can only enjoy what is shown on the surface, the shapes and forms, but not the spirit. They only make use of the traditional culture in name, but with no substance, so many people have not been able to see the pure Chinese culture.

He said many of his friends had come to watch the show today, and they were all deeply moved, because the Chinese Spectacular represents the pure Chinese culture, not only on the surface, but in spirit as well. This was something that many people had not been able to see before. He said that in the explanation of the show, it mentioned that the Chinese dances were very particular about inner spirit. "The performers of the Divine Performing Arts are cultivators. They love the Chinese culture from their hearts, so their performances are not just based on technical practice and training, but result from their moral cultivation as a whole. This is to return to the origin of truth, it is the essence of the Chinese culture."

Mr. Zhang Jian told the reporter that from the Chinese Spectacular, he could feel the profundity of the Chinese culture, which also embraces various other cultures. He said the show also fully displayed Chinese traditional values such as loyalty, filial piety, moral integrity, brotherhood, benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust.

Posting date: 3/6/2008
Original article date: 3/5/2008
Category: News & Media Reports
Chinese version available at http://epochtimes.com/gb/8/3/2/n2029748.htm

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