“It’s very uplifting,” Bianco said at Lincoln Center having seen the New York-based company’s opening performance in the city this season. “A lot of this world is very negative, but here it’s very peaceful and positive.”
Bianco, who is in banking and real estate, attended the performance on March 5, 2020, with Tiffany Chiang, who felt similarly about the experience.
“It’s a beautiful performance. It’s very colorful and very professional; excellent all the way through,” Bianco said, with praise for the color and artistic caliber of the production. “And it was very inspiring.”
Chiang said, “I think it shows not only Chinese culture, but also the beauty of Chinese culture, the elegance and the grace—I’m looking forward to next year.”
“I thought that was amazing,” Bianco said. “I don’t know how that was possible but they did a fantastic job.”
Bianco said his own education, being in the West, spans just 2,000 years when counting in our past civilizations. But China’s history was passed down uninterrupted for 5,000 years, and it made for something to behold.
“It’s very refreshing to see something that’s been around for so many millennia,” he said. “A culture that’s been thriving for 5,000 years is quite remarkable.”
The End of the ‘Divine Land’
Ancient China’s long line of unbroken tradition came to an end in 1949, when communists won out and started doing away with traditional culture and belief in the divine through campaigns like the catastrophic Cultural Revolution.“But in the show it shows that, hopefully, someday, they'll be free again, and their eyes will open, as in the first story,” Bianco said.
Bianco added that communism is an American concern as well, as many young people today don’t understand the reality of communism and socialism and have been taken in by lies.
“Now in the show, their eyes were opened,” he said. He hoped Americans would do the same.
