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Taiwan: Falun Gong Club Is Warmly Received at the Tsinghua Carnival of Knowledge (Photos) By practitioners from Taiwan (Clearwisdom.net) On October 30 and 31, 2004, Falun Gong club at
Tsinghua University in Taiwan participated in the Tsinghua Carnival of Knowledge
sponsored by the university. Apart from setting up display booth in the campus,
the club also demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises on the main stage and
utilized the opportunity to introduce Falun Gong and expose the persecution
facts to students and guests. At the display booth, several practitioners handed out Falun Gong
introductory flyers and explained the facts to visitors. They also conducted an
activity entitled, "breakthrough", which was warmly receive. During
the activity, children who could recite the three words, "Truthfulness,
Compassion and Tolerance" or explain the meaning of the three words would
be rewarded with a beautiful bookmark, a paper lotus flower and a balloon
imprinted with the words, "The World needs Truthfulness, Compassion and
Tolerance". Parents would help their children to recite the three words or
gave them hints of what the three words meant. Young children thus also learned
the meaning of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance". With their
parents' help, many children were able to say, "Truthfulness, means that
one should be honest, tell the truth, and do things truthfully...",
"Compassion means that one should be kind and nice, and be a good
person...", "Tolerance refers to being able to endure hardship and
forgive others..." Members of the Falun Gong club also participated in the stage performance.
While some practitioners demonstrating the five-set elegant exercises, a
practitioner introduced Falun Gong and explained the persecution facts to the
audience through microphone. The practitioner introduced the wide spread of
Falun Gong in more than 60 countries in the world and also talked about how
Jiang's faction, out of its jealousy, has been rampantly suppressing the
peaceful Falun Gong practitioners in China for over 5 years, which results in
hundreds of thousands of practitioners illegally imprisoned and more than 1000
practitioners tortured to death. During the intervals of demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises, practitioners
also played music composed by practitioners with traditional Chinese instruments
Erhu and Xiao. When introducing the music, practitioners also added the
truth-clarifying contents. For instance, when playing the music entitled,
"A song of oddity", practitioners enumerated the suspicious points in
the "Tiananmen Square Self-immolation" incident; when playing the
music, "Coming for you", practitioners introduced the peaceful appeal
by 36 western Falun Gong practitioners on the Tiananmen Square in order to allow
people to be awakened from the Jiang group's lies; when playing the music,
"Falun Dafa is great", practitioners introduced how Falun Gong has
benefited a hundred million practitioners both physically and morally, as well
as the fact that more than 1200 proclamations have been issued in different
countries to honor Falun Gong. During the two-day activities, many people from Tsinghua University also
stopped by and asked for introductory materials. The university policemen
studied the large canvas posters depicting the journey of Falun Dafa. Attendees
asked many questions. One lady asked practitioners to give her a copy of the
book Falun Gong. She expressed that she would definitely read and
treasure it.
Posting date: 11/10/2004 |