{"id":20886,"date":"2020-02-09T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/taoist-cultural-events-heading-to-europe\/"},"modified":"2020-02-09T15:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T15:24:16","slug":"taoist-cultural-events-heading-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/taoist-cultural-events-heading-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoist cultural Events heading to Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>  \tA spate of events promoting Taoist culture will be held in Belgium, Britain and France from Sept. 26 to Oct. 6, as part of efforts to expand this religion&#39;s international influence.<\/p>\n<p>  \tTaoist culture-related exhibitions, lectures and martial arts performances will be staged during the period, Meng Zhiling, a spokesman with the Chinese Taoist Association, told reporters at a press briefing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe program, the first of its kind held by the association, are dedicated to promoting Chinese culture to the world, Meng said.<\/p>\n<p>  \t&quot;The events will work as a new platform to showcase Chinese homegrown Taoism and mark new progress in Taoism&#39;s internationalization effort,&quot; the spokesman said, adding that the staging of the events involves a total of 81 people, including 57 performers.<\/p>\n<p>  \tUnder a scheme initiated by the association in 2012, the association planned to donate Taoist classics to national libraries, prestigious universities and research institutions in more than 70 countries.<\/p>\n<p>  \tTaoism is an ancient religion originating from the writings and philosophy of Lao Tze (BC 571-471). According to his &quot;Tao De Ching,&quot; everything in the universe was born from a vacuum, and a balance must be achieved between human beings and nature.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2992384612\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spate of events promoting Taoist culture will be held in Belgium, Britain and France from Sept. 26 to Oct. 6, as part of efforts to expand this religion&#39;s international influence.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2878],"tags":[44,118],"class_list":["post-20886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-city-guide","tag-chinese-culture","tag-culture"],"views":181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}