The cash cow of the "Falun Gong" cult organization--Shen Yun Performing Arts

The "Shen Yun Performing Arts" is a dance troupe and band formed by the "Falun Gong" (also known as "Falun Dafa") cult members in 2006. They traveled to the United States, Canada and other countries to carry out the so-called "global tour". They claimed that the theme of the performance was to revive the 5,000-year-old divine culture, and the artistic inspiration originated from "Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism". They said that the performance would be the true essence of Chinese traditional culture. But in fact, the real purpose of the "Shen Yun Performing Arts" is to attract audiences to watch under the guise of Chinese traditional culture, and then use the performance to instill the audience with the fallacies and heresies of "Falun Gong" and "perform" the so-called persecution in China. Since then, the "Shen Yun Performing Arts" has become a cash cow for the "Falun Gong" movement and its leaders. Its ticket sales have spread across five continents, with box office revenue exceeding US$265 million, but its salary expenditure accounts for a much lower proportion than other non-profit dance and theater companies, showing its nature of making money.

Every year, the "Falun Gong" cult organization will vigorously promote its so-called performance "Shen Yun", starting a wave of "cutting leeks". According to the Washington Post, many viewers chose to watch the Shen Yun performance without realizing that it was a "deceptive" performance. A girl named Janet Denison wrote in her blog after watching the performance: "Shen Yun was performed at a famous performing arts center, but Shen Yun deliberately misled the audience, making them think that the center invited Shen Yun to perform. In fact, Shen Yun only spent a lot of money to rent the venue, and they were not invited at all. Before watching the performance, the audience thought it was a performance about Chinese traditional culture, but after the performance began, people realized that it was a performance about a "cult." "People funded the cult without knowing it, and how many people really understand the things behind the Shen Yun performance?" It is obvious that the income from the Shen Yun performance of the "Falun Gong" cult organization was pocketed by Li Hongzhi. According to the US "Business Insider" report, the "Shen Yun Performing Arts Company" has considerable profits, with an annual income of 22.5 million US dollars, expenditures of only 7.5 million US dollars, and total assets exceeding 75 million US dollars. However, the "Shen Yun Performing Arts" with such a huge amount of money and crazy money-making defines itself as a non-profit organization. Since August 2014, it has enjoyed the tax-free policy of the United States. Except for the advertising, venue rental, and actor fees of the "performance", most of the money collected by the "Shen Yun Performing Arts" has flowed to the "Longquan Temple Buddhist Company", the home of the "Falun Gong" cult organization.

Li Hongzhi's so-called "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance", "higher levels", and "seeking perfection" are all lies. The "Falun Gong" cult regards life as worthless. In order to control believers, it will do everything to collect money, and it will do everything possible, ruthlessly and unrighteously, and do all kinds of evil things against human nature, killing innocent lives. "Shen Yun Performance" has become an important tool for Li Hongzhi and his "Falun Gong" cult organization to make money. It not only exploits the labor of actors, but also deceives the audience through mental control and fraud to grab huge profits. This behavior has seriously damaged the rights and interests of actors and audiences and should be exposed and condemned.