【細語人生】和媽媽講著同一個故事 Telling the Same Story with My Mother

Hi, nice to meet you again. Lin Qian, DeRu, when you dance on the stage, what's in your mind? When I'm performing on stage, usually I just stay calm and focused. But behind all of this, there's a mission behind what we do. Basically, we want to tell the audience members that truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance is good. There's this persecution going on in China right now. We all believe that we have the sense of duty to stop it. That's why we are performing. Every year, basically, Qian Yun delegates this special contemporary piece that showcases what's going on in China right now with Falun Dafa practitioners, how we're being organ harvested, how we are facing a lot of brutality. We just want to tell the audience members that this is real and it's happening in China right now still, and we want to stop it. And for myself personally, Qian Yun touched me on a personal level because I'm basically a victim of this whole entire persecution because I lost my father due to the persecution when I was four. And before that, both of my parents had high-paying jobs in China. We were pretty well off. We wouldn't think of coming to America, but the persecution of Falun Gong changed everything. So in the end, me and my mom, we had to fled to Thailand and later come to America as a result. And I just felt like my dad, all he wanted to do was basically tell the Chinese government that Falun Gong is good, truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance is good, but he couldn't. And all I wanted to do was basically continue his wish of telling people truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance is good. This is actually a very interesting question because I have been dancing for 11 years and the more I learn about classical Chinese dance, the more I realize that it's very, very profound. Because Chinese classical dance is part of ancient Chinese culture. And I realized that it's basically intertwined with one's morality. And in order to be good at classical Chinese dance, you have to be a very good person yourself. And you have to learn to be a more moral person. There's this very special trait in classical Chinese dance called Shen Yun, which is bearing. It's like a showcase of your inner spiritual realm. So you have to cultivate your inner self if you want to dance well in classical Chinese dance. How do you feel about being in Shen Yun? It's pretty fun and challenging, actually. This whole entire environment, like Shen Yun's environment is because dance is a competitive career, but then we have a very friendly environment. So everybody is trying to help each other out. We all want to improve at the same time. Shen Yun taught me how to be a more grateful person. And I want to thank Master and thank Shen Yun to bring me up to become a more righteous person. Does your mother support you? Yeah, she supports me so much. I'm very proud of my mom because when I first started dancing, I always called back home, I'm like, mom, it's too hard. And my mom always said, she's always like, you have to continue to persevere. What do you want to tell your audience? I want to tell the audience member to hold on to the goodness and hold on to your faith because in the end, that's what's most important. For myself, because my dad was persecuted by CCP, all he wanted to do was tell the Chinese government that Falun Dafa is good, that truthfulness, compassion and tolerance is good. He showed that the government can take away someone's job, they can take away someone's family, but they can't take away your faith. I think my dad's courage changed my life and it's still instilled in me a sense of duty that I want to tell the whole entire world that truthfulness, compassion and tolerance is good. Thank you, Lin Qian. Thank you, Deru. I saw my dad being taken away by the police I was locked up in the brain washing room at that time. I didn't even know. So your dad didn't come back at that time? Did you say your teacher expelled you even though you get the best grades in school? My little lotus flower, crying Lotus flower, it's not wrong to tell the truth or to be kind Lotus flower, how can I stand by silent? Your life's on the line Child, I will take you in Child, I will bring you home Happiness back to you No more you'll suffer alone Child, we will take you in Child, we will bring you home Be a flower that sees the spring Soon a dove flying high over the storm Soon a dove high over the storm