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HIROSHIMA, Japan—A group of twenty-year old girls from the mainland, now working in Hiroshama, had the good fortune to see Divine Performing Arts (DPA) together on Feb. 15. On leaving the theater, their faces were radiating with joy, and they were brimming with confidence and positivity.
Ms. Zhang said The Miraculous Exhibit dance was—she gave a sweet smile and said, “Truly beautiful, really beautiful.”
Ms. Zhang said that she felt like giving her aunt in China a telephone call after the show, and telling her that now, after being able to see this performance first-hand, she was more fortunate than her aunt. Ms. Zhang’s aunt in China has seen the DPA DVD, and when she heard that it was going to Hiroshima, her aunt called her niece and said that she must see it.
“It was especially good, and deeply stirring. Especially The Miraculous Exhibit; my aunt saw some of the dances on DVD. My family friends saw the performance—they all know it is very good.”
Ms. Zhang’s friend said she felt confident being a Chinese now, and no longer had any fear.
Another one of the girls in the group who saw the show, Ms. Liu, said her eyes were overwhelmed by the colors. She said: “Since coming to Japan, this is the first time I’ve seen Chinese people putting on such a good performance, I’m so moved, I feel very warm about it. Every performance left a deep impression in my heart.
“Especially good, especially good, it is really a credit to the Chinese people. Japanese people always see us Chinese in a certain way, but if they saw this, they would see us Chinese in another light, for sure."
“Because my mother believes in Buddha, and at home we’ve always read Buddhist books and what have you—I’ve heard ‘truthfulness, compassion, forbearance’—since I was little I’ve believed in Buddha, so I’m especially pleased by this. In China, Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted. Basically, all citizens know this.
“Falun Gong’s truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance, it awakens one's conscience, makes the heart feel very warm, especially good. But when I came across the Communist Party’s pressure, I was scared.
"Once I saw that program though, I felt courage, as if I was standing tall.”
Ms. Liu said she would call her mother that night. “Being reincarnated as a human being, I am indeed very fortunate to see this performance."
Matthew Robertson contributed to the translation.
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