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      A Story of Selfless Beauty

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      Traditional Chinese Artistic Motifs: The Skies and Heaven Beyond

      A look at traditional Chinese artistic motifs inspired by heavenly realms.

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      Daily Life in the Tang Dynasty

      Little wonder it was called China's Golden Age.

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      The Sacred Taoist Wudang Mountains

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      How a Beauty Trap Ended a Brutal Dictatorship

      The story of Lady Diao Chan, from Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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      The Story of Liang and Zhu

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      Monkey King in the Queendom

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      The Cold Cave: A Tale of Devotion

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      Meet the Great Jade Emperor

      Becoming the Emperor of Heaven is no small task.

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      The Phoenix of the Orient

      What we know of the oriental phoenix, or fèng huáng (鳳凰), comes from...

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      Monkey King at Fire Mountain

      Monkey King versus Princess Iron Fan: a tale of humor and trickery.

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      Mythistory’s Divine Farmer

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      Mythistory: Great Yu Controls the Waters

      It was around 3,000 B.C.E., when a great flood plagued the Middle Kingdom...

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      The Goddess of Compassion: Bodhisattva Guan Yin

      This goddess of mercy can help solve any problem, but only for those who lead a life of...

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      Pigsy from Journey to the West

      Pigsy's is a story of a man-pig embarking on a sacred journey. But how did that come...

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      The Four-Faced Yellow Emperor of Mythistory

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      Mythistory Makes Music

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      Mighty Mom of Mythistory

      Out of the myriad divinities from China’s Mythistory, who is the one goddess...

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      Mythistory: The Legend of the Jade Rabbit

      Not the Easter bunny, but the Eastern bunny.

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      Mythistory Begins

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      Dragon Kings of Mythistory

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      Sage of the Orchid Pavilion

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      Sandy: The Giant Fish-Turned Monk

      How does a warrior turned man-eating fish-ogre become a Buddhist friar? Meet Sandy, the...

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      Tang Monk from Journey to the West

      Alternately known as Xuan Zang, Tripitaka, and Tang Seng, this hero from the classic...

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    Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world's premier classical Chinese dance and music company, established in New York in 2006. It performs classical Chinese dance, ethnic and folk dance, and story-based dance, with orchestral accompaniment and solo performers. For 5,000 years, divine culture flourished in the land of China. Through breathtaking music and dance, Shen Yun is reviving this glorious culture. Shen Yun, or 神韻, can be translated as: “The beauty of divine beings dancing.”

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