(Clearwisdom.net)

Chi Yeh describes the Divine Performing Arts Chinese Spectacular as "a mini-tour inside China." Yeh is one of the organizers for the traveling cultural performance that comes to the Jubilee on Wednesday.

"The show is dazzling," Yeh said Friday. "It's a rare opportunity." The performance takes its audience on a journey through China's rich heritage. Heroes, emperors, philosophies, and legends are woven together into a two-and-a-half-hour program of live music, drama. and dance. It features elaborate costumes from ancient Chinese dynasties and traditional storytelling in Mandarin and English.

"The show will take you back through 5,000 years of Chinese history," Yeh said. "We expect people will understand more about the Chinese culture."

The Edmonton performance follows two shows in Calgary, marking the end of the Chinese Spectacular's 34-city world tour. Yeh says the event will give Chinese Edmontonians a chance to reconnect with their traditional culture. "Most people forget their origins, the true Chinese history," he said. "A lot of the traditional culture is lost."

The Chinese Spectacular has been at the center of some controversy in recent months. The show is hosted by New Tang Dynasty Television, a U.S.-based network sympathetic to the Falun Gong spiritual movement and The Epoch Times newspaper. [...] Though Yeh and some of the volunteers for the Edmonton show are Falun Gong practitioners, Yeh said, "It's not a Falun Gong show. It tries to portray, through the form of entertainment, goodness, virtue, truth, compassion. It's for everyone, all walks of life and ethnicities."