Pure Energy & Traditional Beauty
Confucius taught his disciple Zi Gong many life principles that led the talented student to become an exceptional businessman. (Image: Vincentraal via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0) Zi Gong, born in 520 BC, a native of the state of Wei, was one of Confucius’s ten most outstanding disciples. He was well rounded, a well-educated Confucian scholar, an […]
A family of dancers, who found their calling in a 5,000-year-old culture, travel the world showcasing stories that resonate across boundaries. A “white Mulan?” That’s weird, they bluntly told her. Katherine Parker, an award-winning dancer with Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, recalled the first time that she portrayed a […]
The Han people are by far China’s largest ethnic group. And so just as the Chinese language (yu) is known as Han-yu, Chinese clothing (fu) is known as Han-fu. In reality, though, traditional Chinese clothing has varied greatly from one dynasty to the next. Hundreds of variations exist in Hanfu. The clothing generally consists of […]
Shen Yun Performing Arts’ curtain call at The Bushnell, The William H. Mortensen Hall, in Hartford, Conn, on Feb. 8, 2020. Edward Dye/The Epoch Times People will tell you how much happier and energized they feel after they have watched an incredible performance. Chinese medicine has a theory that may explain how the performing arts […]
Ancient traditional music was known to have the ability to guide people and promote goodness and healing. (Image: Charles Parker via Pexels) During World War II, the U.S. Army field hospitals were filled with wounded soldiers. In hot weather, with hordes of mosquitoes and a severe shortage of medicine, the rate of surgical infection and […]
A detail of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings (L–R) “Ginevra de’ Benci, “Lady With an Ermine,” and “Mona Lisa.” Public Domain The three known women from Leonardo’s oeuvre reflect the Renaissance artist’s pioneering techniques. Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance polymath, once wrote: “If the poet says that he can inflame men with love … the painter […]
Inscribed in 2008 (3.COM) on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (originally proclaimed in 2003) The Zafimaniry community is the sole remaining repository of a unique woodcraft culture previously widespread on the island. In the eighteenth century, the Zafimaniry settled in the remote wooded region of south-east Madagascar, seeking refuge from […]
“The Old Stagecoach,” 1871, by Eastman Johnson, recalls the joys of childhood. Public Domain For Robert Schumann, childhood was one of the happiest times of his life and a source of lifelong inspiration. For many of us, childhood represents a simpler time filled with dreams and hope. Over the last centuries, many artists tried to […]
One of China’s four literary classics, Outlaws of the Marsh (also known as Water Margin and All Men Are Brothers), was written by Shi Naian in the 14th century. It is a compilation of folk stories filled with adventure, affliction, heroism, and outlaw subculture, loosely based on a real group of bandits from the Song dynasty. As the story goes, in […]
The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition at the University of Toronto presented onlookers with a glimpse into the beauty and tragedy of today’s China. The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition at the University of Toronto presented onlookers with a glimpse into the beauty and tragedy of today’s China. This inspiring collection […]
