By a Falun Gong Practitioner in Maryland

(Clearwisdom.net) A street festival is held in Frederick, Maryland in early fall every year. The event gathers parade, diverse entertainment and booths sponsored by local organizations along the street. As many sixty thousand people attend.

Falun Gong booth

Falun Gong booth

The festival fell on Oct. 1 this year. Falun Gong has been invited to participate in the parade for many years. Their float, decorated with lotuses, and exercise demonstration on float have won a lot of appraise. In addition to the parade this year, Falun Gong was invited to organize a show and a special exercise demonstration. Practitioners received warm feedback for what they did.

Children Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate meditation exercise.

Children Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate meditation exercise.

An exercise demonstration by children Falun Gong practitioners fascinated many people. Dressed in yellow exercise uniforms, the children practitioners stood out in crowd. A store owner became very interested when he saw "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" printed on children's T-shirts. He talked with the children for a long time.

People learn about the true story of Falun Gong.

People learn about the true story of Falun Gong.

At the international culture section of the street, Falun Gong practitioners showed Falun Gong books in many languages, displayed picture boards about Dafa's wide spread and played an exercise video at their booth.

Children practitioners' exercise demonstration fascinates many people. Some of them copy children's exercise movement.

Many people visited the Falun Gong booth and said it was the best. Children couldn't stop watching the exercise-teaching video. Some have heard about the persecution of Falun Gong in China and wanted to know more about it. Some asked where they could learn Falun Gong. Some asked practitioners to teach a class locally.

Posting date: 10/7/2005
Original article date: 10/7/2005
Category: Falun Dafa Worldwide
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/6/111862.html

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