Spanish Elected Lawmaker Lauds Shen Yun for Reviving China’s Traditional Culture

Mar 24, 2026Shen Yun

BURGOS, Spain—The audience that attended Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Fórum Evolución on March 19 was enchanted and intrigued.

Javier Martínez Lozano, former president of Vox Burgos and an elected member of the legislature of Spain’s Castile and León region, had high praise for the way Shen Yun presents China's culture.

“It’s a very fun and interesting way of telling a story. Shen Yun does this in an educational and breezy way," Mr. Martínez said.

"It sends a very important message to Europe and the rest of the world, which in China, it normally won't be able to propagate."

Shen Yun, a New York-based performing arts company, has a mission to revive China's traditional culture, and is banned by the Chinese Communist Party, so it can't perform in China.

Mr. Martínez said it's important to preserve traditional culture.

“I believe that one must never lose traditions. One must not let oneself be carried away by the actions of globalist people who only want to destroy the culture of each country," he said.

He added that his own region of Castile and León is also at risk of losing its traditions.

“In the end, it is history and, like it or not, it is our cradle, it is our legacy. I want to leave a better world for my children. Just as my parents taught me where we come from, I have to instill in my children where they come from, and where we do not want to end up,” he said.

Watching the performance, Mr. Martínez said he can see how the Chinese communist regime is oppressing people in modern-day China.

“I’m left with the message of how communism is oppressing the Chinese people, and how it is not letting them express themselves, even simply through dance performances," he said.

He noted that through Shen Yun, he was introduced to classical Chinese dance and found it to be something spectacular. "It’s a way of portraying [Chinese] culture and showing the world that all of this is real, and because it has a history behind it. It is history that it is selling,” he said.

To everyone involved with Shen Yun, Mr. Martínez said, “I can't say more to the artists than that they are brave, that they should not falter in their efforts, and that they are doing a work that is commendable by showing the world the reality of traditional Chinese culture.”

Mr. Martínez said he would enthusiastically recommend Shen Yun. Classical Chinese dance presented by Shen Yun "is a magnificent spectacle," he added.

Reporting by NTD and Yvonne Marcotte.

From The Epoch Times

NTD is a media sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts, covering audience reactions since 2006.