Spring Welcoming in the Lotus Flower ---- Minnesota Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in May Festival Parade (Photos)
By practitioners from Minnesota
(Clearwisdom.net) On the first Sunday of May, Minneapolis celebrated its 28th
May festival with a parade. In the procession, the brightly colored, gigantic lotus flower, the
beautiful Dafa music of "Pudu" and practitioners' graceful and peaceful exercise
demonstration, like an unexpected spring gift, gained heartfelt admiration and praise from the
spectators. This year the spring came late, and this grand festival originally expecting to have 50,000
attendants attracted even more people. This was the first time that Falun Gong practitioners from
Minnesota and several nearby states had joined this spring-celebrating festival and parade. Although dark clouds covered the sky in the morning, it became clear by noon. Around 12:00,
spectators had already gathered along the roadside. In the Falun Gong practitioners' procession,
three practitioners each held a round board on each of which was written the Chinese characters for
Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. The golden characters on blue boards were very eye-catching. A
colorful, huge lotus flower followed slowly, accompanied by the moving music of Pudu. The waving
lotus petals brought people a kind of freshness and vitality. The holy and pure lotus flower was
like an unexpected spring gift to the people who were looking forward to spring after going through
the cold winter. It seemed that people's joyous smiles, cheerful jubilance, vibrant applause, and
words of praise, were welcoming the serene and beautiful lotus flower together with the spring. The parade ended by a pretty lake. Spectators thus surrounded the lake. There were various
display booths around the lake. Decorated with the huge lotus flower and the beautiful float, the
Falun Dafa booth was especially eye-catching. People were able to see from everywhere around the
lake the beautiful lotus flower and the practitioners' elegant and peaceful exercise
demonstration. From time to time, people told the practitioners, "The waving of the lotus
flower seen from the other side of the lake is extremely beautiful," "The lotus flower is
really pretty," "I've seen that Falun Dafa is so pure," and so on. This is another spring, a spring to welcome the holy and pure lotus flower, a spring in which
Dafa "gradually enters the human realm."
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http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/5/9/29766.html
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