{"id":159667,"date":"2025-01-26T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/?p=2042424"},"modified":"2025-01-26T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:29:07","slug":"the-big-unsettling-picture-behind-shen-yun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/the-big-unsettling-picture-behind-shen-yun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big, Unsettling Picture Behind Shen Yun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shen Yun is a dance and music show that plays at some of the country’s most extravagant theater venues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has toured the U.S. since at least 2011, and just released its national tour schedule for 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So frequently do Americans hear about Shen Yun through its mass promotional mailings, billboards or social media ads that there are memes and jokes<\/a> about whether anyone really sees it.<\/p>\n

On first receiving the mailing in 2013, I crumpled it up. \u201cCommie propaganda,\u201d I thought.<\/p>\n

Seeing an online video advertisement for Shen Yun, I thought \u201cYeah, nice acrobatic dance and costumes, but how did I get targeted?\u201d<\/p>\n

It turns out I was wrong about Shen Yun.<\/p>\n

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Not only is it not pro-Chinese Communist Party, Shen Yun is a celebration of what was before Mao, and is a gadfly at the current Chinese regime. The performances use the free expression of art to remind us of the losses the CCP has cost.<\/p>\n

To then find out that the top supporters of Shen Yun also support The Epoch Times, members of an organization called Falun Gong<\/a>, made more sense.<\/p>\n

To ask a Democrat hardcore activist, Falun Gong is no more respectable than American Christianity. This helps rapidly orient one in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Falun Gong is a banned spiritual practice in modern China that has 70 million adherents<\/a> or more. After having experienced 26 years of persecution<\/a>, practitioners of Falun Gong recognize a spirit above the chairman\u2019s position of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n

The CCP continues to look furtively at Falun Gong, though President Xi\u2019s changed line of attack appears to focus on personally besmirching the founder, Li Hongzhi.<\/a><\/p>\n

Falun Gong emerged out of the ancient Qi Gong tradition inside mainland China in the 1990s. To the minds of Falun Gong practitioners, divine life energy, or Qi, is available to flow to everyone regardless of partisan loyalties.<\/p>\n

After violent government attacks, members realized that a principled character requires a cultural, social and religious movement to be born and grown that will not abide the CCP’s totalitarian viewpoint.<\/p>\n

Estimates say at least 2,000 Falun Gong practitioners<\/a> have been executed by the Chinese Government since the religion was officially banned in 1999. Charges of torture and organ harvesting against practitioners<\/a> have been made and cases brought to light.<\/p>\n

The present headquarters of Falun Gong is in upstate New York, though many practitioners remain in China. Hongzhi escaped China to live in upstate N.Y., and is respected for linking the embodied spiritual experience to an organization that stands its ground against communist expansion.<\/p>\n

Just as one thing you can say about the Falun Gong-founded Epoch Times is that its stances are principled. One comment you can make about Shen Yun is that its passionate leaps and bounds are athletically precise.<\/p>\n

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A lawsuit targeting @ShenYun<\/a> is raising serious questions about Chinese communist influence here on American soil. pic.twitter.com\/p2uEeMywzL<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 EpochTV (@EpochTV) December 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n