“It was magnificent, just absolutely beautiful,” said Mr. Gohmert. “The beauty, the training they demonstrated—magnificence is the best word I’ve got. It’s just stunning.”

He said he was impressed by “not only the manner and training thats demonstrated, but we were seeing fables play out that had moral messages, and that’s something that we are not getting enough of in the United States these days.”

Before communism, China was known as the “Celestial Empire” or the “Land of the Divine.” Shen Yun tells histories and myths from 5,000 years of this divinely inspired culture.

“This is human form when it’s allowed to be free and celebrate, and it’s really a joy to behold,” he said.

“It’s quite old culture, but so many lessons that are true across humanity,” he said.

“It’s wonderful we have a chance to see what people saw 5,000 years ago,” he said. “And the colors and the beauty of movement is really just a celebration of the human form itself.”

“A cultural journey for 5,000 years, and to have it right here in Texas!,” he said. “Oh, it’s such a beautiful culture and ... it had the moral messages, good and evil, and that is with us and will always be with us, and it’s important to recognize, there is still good, and there still is evil, and if you don’t recognize that you could get sucked in to being part of the evil.”

“Come see it. It is a thing of beauty to behold, and you‘ll go away mesmerized by the beauty, and hopefully you’ll go home taking a message that oppression anywhere is oppression everywhere, and we all need to encourage the lack of oppression—freedom.”