NEW YORK—NEW YORK—Many people in New York celebrated the Chinese New Year on the afternoon of Feb. 14 at Radio City Music Hall. Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company provided the perfect welcome for the Year of the Tiger.
The Shen Yun performers weave for the audience a tapestry of ancient wisdom and culture from China’s 5,000 years of history.
Mr. Larry Hermann is currently a criminal defense lawyer in New York. However, he has had a varied pathway through life. He is a former major in the U.S. Marines, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, and has been an assistant U.S. attorney.
He was drawn to today’s show due to a deep interest in China, which was fostered in his childhood. His mother had told him Chinese fairy tales when he was a child, and she collected Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Han Dynasty antiques.
“I think that it’s a magnificent [show], but anybody who understands the suffering of those who believe in God in China can also have a very special appreciation of this beautiful work of art,” he said. “I congratulate those who put it together.”
He said, “I think that any government that represses truth and represses people’s right to believe deserves to be treated the way they were treated here. They were treated very well here for a government that deals in organ harvesting and repression of belief.”
One of the pieces, Nothing Can Block the Divine Path, depicts the story of a mother and daughter who practice Falun Dafa, a meditation practice currently being persecuted in China. The mother is taken and beaten but refuses to give up her belief.
He said that keeping people in jail only because they don’t renounce their beliefs, whether they believe in Falun Dafa, Buddhism, Judaism, or Christianity, is wrong.
With reporting by NTDTV
Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company celebrated the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday. Shen Yun will perform four more shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York Sunday Feb. 14 and Saturday Feb. 20 through Sunday Feb. 21.
For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
The Shen Yun performers weave for the audience a tapestry of ancient wisdom and culture from China’s 5,000 years of history.
Mr. Larry Hermann is currently a criminal defense lawyer in New York. However, he has had a varied pathway through life. He is a former major in the U.S. Marines, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, and has been an assistant U.S. attorney.
He was drawn to today’s show due to a deep interest in China, which was fostered in his childhood. His mother had told him Chinese fairy tales when he was a child, and she collected Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Han Dynasty antiques.
“I think that it’s a magnificent [show], but anybody who understands the suffering of those who believe in God in China can also have a very special appreciation of this beautiful work of art,” he said. “I congratulate those who put it together.”
He said, “I think that any government that represses truth and represses people’s right to believe deserves to be treated the way they were treated here. They were treated very well here for a government that deals in organ harvesting and repression of belief.”
One of the pieces, Nothing Can Block the Divine Path, depicts the story of a mother and daughter who practice Falun Dafa, a meditation practice currently being persecuted in China. The mother is taken and beaten but refuses to give up her belief.
He said that keeping people in jail only because they don’t renounce their beliefs, whether they believe in Falun Dafa, Buddhism, Judaism, or Christianity, is wrong.
With reporting by NTDTV
Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company celebrated the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday. Shen Yun will perform four more shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York Sunday Feb. 14 and Saturday Feb. 20 through Sunday Feb. 21.
For more information, please visit ShenYunPerformingArts.org
