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Time : January 24th (Monday), 2004 |
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The Yuanji originated from China in Yuan Dynasty. It is too difficult and comprehensive for ordinary people to learn. Mr. Zhi-Xiang Zhang, the chairman of Yuanji Association in Mainland China, combined Jingkung, Dongkung, massage and Shinderkung with music into one as the Yuanji Dance during recent years. Although the Yuanji originated from China long long time ago, it was developed recently. The Yuanji Dance prevails in Taiwan owing to the great efforts made by Mr. Zhao-Yong Lin, coaches and cadre. Mr. Lin occasionally learned the Yuanji Dance in Mainland China in 1994 and brought it into Taiwan in 1995. now there are more than 2000 Yuanji Dance teams in Taiwan, and the number of members are about ten thousand, but the number may be one hundred and fifty thousand if those who are not the formal members but play Yuanji dance are included. Although the Yuanji originated from China and our cadre have to go to Mt. Lotus to learn new skills every year, the Yuanji dance does not prevail in China. The major reason is that Chinese Government forbad the assembly after the movement of Falun Gong. Hence, the Yuanji was forbidden initially few years ago, that’s why the popular names in China are Youngsen dance – dancing for health, Shusen dance – dancing for moral character, or some else. Although there are many different names for the Yuanji dance, the content of dancing steps are the same. But just for the law forbidding the assembly, the research and development of the Yuanji dance was divided into many factions. The organizations from Taiwan contacted respectively different factions in China, therefore, the content of dancing steps are different. Theoretically, the content of the former five volumes are the same, the rest of volumes are different. Our Yuanji clothes are red cloth and white pants because our president, Mr. Lin,wishes us to possess an enthusiasm for benefits of the public. That’s why we always make great efforts for social benefits during the rest time of dancing. Our diagram is two people holding the Yuanji, which means that husband and wife can dance together. However, Yuanji’s diagram is different from Taiji’s diagram, because Taiji’s diagram is black at the upper and white at the bottom, but ours is white at the upper and red at the bottom. There is a yellow circle in the middle which means the balance between masculine and feminine. We have mentioned above, the content of the former five volumes are the same,but we don’t have the copyright of the former five volumes, so we can’t give you the music in these five volumes. We have the copyright of the other volumes we learned from Mt. Lotus, so we can give you the right to use these materials to make your website. Actually, no matter what volume you use or what organization of the Yuanji you belong to, in principle, the aim of the Yuanji is to harmonize Yuanjikung with music to obtain health by exercise.Actually, there were some organizations similar to the Yuanji to be developed during the period that Mr. Lin promoted the Yuanji dance in Taiwan. In other words, there are 3 organizations developing the Yuanji dance like us at present, but some dancing steps are different among these organizations. Although the Yuanji originated from China and our cadre have to go to Mt. Lotus to learn new skills every year, the Yuanji dance does not prevail in China. The major reason is that Chinese Government forbad the assembly after the movement of Falun Gong. Hence, the Yuanji was forbidden initially few years ago, that’s why the popular names in China are Youngsen dance – dancing for health, Shusen dance – dancing for moral character, or some else. Although there are many different names for the Yuanji dance, the content of dancing steps are the same. But just for the law forbidding the assembly, the research and development of the Yuanji dance was divided into many factions. The organizations from Taiwan contacted respectively different factions in China, therefore, the content of dancing steps are different. Theoretically, the content of the former five volumes are the same, the rest of volumes are different. Our Yuanji clothes are red cloth and white pants because our president, Mr. Lin,wishes us to possess an enthusiasm for benefits of the public. That’s why we always make great efforts for social benefits during the rest time of dancing. Our diagram is two people holding the Yuanji, which means that husband and wife can dance together. However, Yuanji’s diagram is different from Taiji’s diagram, because Taiji’s diagram is black at the upper and white at the bottom, but ours is white at the upper and red at the bottom. There is a yellow circle in the middle which means the balance between masculine and feminine. We have mentioned above, the content of the
former five volumes are the same,but we don’t have the copyright
of the former five volumes, so we can’t give you the music in these
five volumes. We have the copyright of the other volumes we learned
from Mt. Lotus, so we can give you the right to use these materials
to make your website. Actually, no matter what volume you use or
what organization of the Yuanji you belong to, in principle, the
aim of the Yuanji is to harmonize Yuanjikung with music to obtain
health by exercise.Generally speaking,
Ballroom Dance can be divided into two categories, Latin-American Dance and
Modern Standard Dance. The dancing steps are active and passionate. Hence,
Latin-American Dance is often taken as the first dance for kids who want to
learn dancing. Now there are many kids beginning to learn dancing ,and they can
dance very well and lovely. In respect to the association whose members dancing
in the early morning in your research, their dancing steps are random, hence,
the nature of dancing steps is close to social dance. Those who like dancing
can’t dance in the early morning because they have to work, they will choose to
dance in the dance hall. These persons’ dancing steps are more formal. But no
matter what, when you can dance well and decide to join the dancing competition,
you have to adopt the dancing steps made by |
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Review the questions first before visiting the Yuanji Association. |
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Everybody has to pay attention to listen and write when the aunt is talking. |
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The questions we asked in the 2nd interview are more detailed and profound. |
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