NEW YORK—When hearing a comment on certain things, should one just believe it, or hear the words from two opposing sides and then make a judgment, or go to personally experience it and see what it really is?
In the morning of February 7, the first day of the Chinese New Year, Mrs. Wang, a Chinese from the Chinese community of New York City, gave herself a gift, Divine Performing Arts' Chinese New Year Splendor performance in New York City's Radio City Music Hall. Wang told The Epoch Times what she has gone through in her mind before and after she watched the performance, which can be inspiring to those who have similar thoughts.
Mrs. Wang has a graceful demeanor and speaks elegantly. She appears to be a well-cultured person and very knowledgeable. Her family has been in the U.S. for three generations. Her children are all very accomplished persons and enjoy high reputations in the community. She and her husband came together to watch the afternoon performance. They also brought eight or nine friends with them.
Because she did not want to let people know her name, she just told the reporter her last name, which is Wang. So the following uses the name Mrs. Wang.
Mrs. Wang read the good comments of Westerners about the show in The Epoch Times. She also heard from several persons she knows that the show was not that good. The opposing comments had triggered her interest, leading her to think, "I definitely want to see it in person."
On the afternoon of February 7, during the intermission of the performance, Mrs. Wang gave her own comments, "The programs are especially good! This is absolutely a high-standard performance. For those who said the performance was not good, it is because they do not understand it and their own levels are not high."
After personally watching the show, Mrs. Wang obviously could hardly understand why someone spoke badly of the show, "With such good music and dances and such beautiful backdrops, it really makes Chinese people feel proud." She said that she really enjoyed the show. After she went back, she said that she would tell those she knows not to listen to others' bad comments and miss this good chance.
Mrs. Wang said that after watching those court TV series from mainland China, such as The Great Ming Dynasty, she felt very nauseous. It was all about the court eunuchs' abusing powers and the treachery of the court, and so on. "The country needs those loyal officials like Yue Fei," she said. What she saw in the dance of "The Loyalty of Yue Fei" inspired her to give good remarks about the show again and again; in the meantime, she said that she also felt pity and painful that Yue Fei could not save the country as he was called back (from the battlefield) by the emperor and then killed.
"We all are Chinese. We all hope China can be better. It is good no matter who has done such a thing." Mrs. Wang repetitively indicated that the performance has brought honor to Chinese people, "I completely agree with those Westerners' words of praise of the Divine Performing Arts in The Epoch Times. " She said that she did not need to praise anyone particularly, and that she really meant what she had said.
Wang said that she could see how much effort, energy, and time had to be spent in the preparation of this performance and how many talents, including the host and hostess, who are good at both Chinese and English, are required. She also mentioned that each and every piece of the music, the dances, the backdrops, the colors, and so on were flawless. "Regarding the color-matching in that Korean dance, matching diamond blue with creamy yellow was perfectly good, while matching it with any other colors would be tawdry."
Mrs. Wang indicated that the performance was unexpectedly good and made her feel surprised, "It is such a high-realm culture. [Divine Performing Arts] has taken the best things of China and presented it in such a superior place, Radio City Music Hall, to let foreigners enjoy and let them see what genuine arts are."
The humor of the host and hostess has left Mrs. Wang with a deep impression. She said that before they introduced the erhu performance, "the other instruments tried hard to show off themselves," which made her laugh. In "The Lady of the Moon," the way it portrayed the handling of the suns being shot down was very impressive to her.
Mrs. Wang often said that those bad Chinese products, poisonous foods and toys, which were reported in the newspaper, really make foreigners to look down upon Chinese people, and make the overseas Chinese lose face. However, after watching the whole show and walking out of the theater, she felt, "I am very happy, and very excited. It really brings honor to Chinese people!"
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