Chinese Celebrity's visit to FGS South Island
Fo Guang Shan (FGS) New Zealand Venerable Abbess Man Shin and Buddha’s Light International Association (BLIA) North Island New Zealand president Dolly Tsai with a Chinese television and movie celebrity Zi Jian Zhang and his wife arrived in New Zealand FGS South Island Temple for a visit. South Island Temple supervisor, Venerable Jue Xi, Venerable Miao Yu, BLIA South Island New Zealand president See Shen Lee, vice president Louisa Kuo and many other volunteers all invited them on their arrival.
The visit began with the Abbess leading them to the Buddha Hall to prostrate to Buddha and an introduction on the FGS South Island and the features of the structure or the temple such as the Longmen Grotto (Chinese) design of the front gate of the temple and the time corridor design in one of the spaces in the temple and the green environmental design of the temple, and the four bodhisattvas at the front of the temple. All of these gave a great impression to the celebrity’s wife, who graduated from a famous university in China, Ching Hwa University, majoring in architecture.
After the introduction they went for an art exhibition tour of the Chinese Zen drawing by Kim Hoa Tram and the Poetry Comic Exhibition by Zi Kai Feng on the second level of the temple. The Chinese celebrity, Zi Jian Zhang and his wife were really delightful in the trip down to South Island FGS with the art exhibition and the introduction of the temple. They were thankful for the activities that New Zealand arranged.
The Chinese drama celebrity Zi Jian Zhang started his acting career in 1988 and now he had acted and performed at least 50 traditional and modern Chinese TV shows and ten movies. In the Detective Di Renjie Series, one of the films that he was in, he acted as Li Yuan Fang. And in Falcon Series, another film that he acted, he acted as Yan Shung Ying and had the loudest applause from the audiences. His father was also famous too. He was famous as a book performing artiest. His father always had been supporting Zi Jian Zhang for his acting career.