Germany: Celebrating the Moon Festival in the City of Dresden (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Dresden is the capital of Sachsen in Germany. On September 17 and 18, 2005, an autumn festival was held in a shopping center in the Prohlis district of the city. Falun Gong practitioners were invited to participate in the activity, which coincided with the Chinese Moon Festival.

The Falun Gong booth was arranged in the busiest part of the shopping center with big supermarkets and stores on either side. The host had found us some exhibition boards so that our color posters could be hung in an eye-catching location.

Falun Gong booth located in the busiest area of the shopping center

During these two days, practitioners introduced Falun Gong and told people about the cruel persecution against the practice in Mainland China. Some practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises to the peaceful exercise music and others distributed leaflets to passers-by. On the big poster exhibition boards were pictures and descriptions of the Falun Gong exercises, as well as photo illustrations of torture methods used in China against practitioners. On the information desks, practitioners displayed hand-made paper lotus flowers and truth-clarifying materials of all kinds.

Many people stopped to find out more. Some took pictures of the demonstration of the five sets of Falun Gong exercises using mobile phones and cameras; others earnestly read the exhibition boards exposing the persecution. When they found out that those who practice such peaceful exercises are being cruelly persecuted in China, a lot of people were shocked. They exchanged their opinions with practitioners, asked for leaflets and signed a petition calling for the release of Jiang Renzheng, a Falun Gong practitioner who used to live in Germany but who was deported and has been put into a forced labor camp by the Chinese Communist Party. With great interest, some stood in a line to obtain greeting cards with the words, "The World Needs Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" written on them by a practitioner.

Within these two days, many kind-hearted German people learned about how the Chinese Communist Party brutally persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. Some expressed their will to help those persecuted in China, some asked for petition forms and leaflets so that they could share the information with their families and friends. And still many more people wanted to learn Falun Gong. Practitioners happily invited them to the local exercise practice site.

Source http://clearharmony.net/articles/200510/29194.html

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/30/111509.html

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