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    The Story of Liang and Zhu

    One of China’s best-known folktales, the story of Liang and Zhu can be traced back a thousand years and more.

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      Monkey King in the Queendom

      The four pilgrims arrive in a land of only women...and one scorpion demon.

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      The Cold Cave: A Tale of Devotion

      The ultimate tale of a young woman's perseverance and endurance...

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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

      Meet the demi-god emperor with a man’s body, an ox’s head, a transparent...

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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

      Was he real or a myth? Emperor and inventor, or Taoist cultivator and...

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      Mythistory Makes Music

      How did Chinese music begin? An ancient legend says it happened like this…

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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

      The Chinese tale of creation stars a selfless giant who did all he could do before...

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      Dragon Kings of Mythistory

      Ancient China was a land where gods and mortals lived in tandem and created a divinely...

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      Sage of the Orchid Pavilion

      One of the greatest works of Chinese calligraphy, the Orchid Pavilion is also a...

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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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      Monkey Business in the Dragon Palace

      Mythical heroes are synonymous with their powerful weapons. This is the origins story...

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      The Emperor Ascends: The Story of the Illustrious Kangxi

      One of China's most illustrious emperors was the great Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. He...

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      The Great Classic: Romance of the Three Kingdoms

      One of the Four Great Classics of Chinese literature, this is a mega-saga of strategy...

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      Three Kingdoms: Capturing Arrows with Boats of Straw

      The story of how the brilliant strategist Zhuge Liang "borrowed" 100,000 arrows from...

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      Forced onto Mt. Liang, the Story of Lin Chong

      How did this noble man become the “Panther Head”...

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      The Good, the Bad, and the “Crazy”

      In China’s long history, one official stands out for his wickedness. Meet...

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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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