COLUMBIA, S.C.—For one couple, watching Shen Yun Performing Arts opened a whole new world of amazing perspective on traditional Chinese culture. “It’s very interesting to see the beauty in the culture that the communists attempted to suppress and do away with,” said Daniel Quattlebaum, a board member of the South Carolina Association of Special Purpose Districts. Mr. Quattlebaum attended New York-based Shen Yun with his wife Sheron, a pharmacist, and daughter Hannah. Shen Yun is the world’s leading classical Chinese and folk dance and music performance, which was showing at the Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia and is now headed to audiences in St. Louis, Missouri; San Antonio, Texas; and Washington, D.C., over the weekend. Since its inception in 2005, its mission has been the restoration of 5,000 years of Chinese culture and wisdom. “It’s very helpful that it’s still being shown in America and shown to the world …