Taiwan: Depicting a Story of Courage in a Minghui School Drawing Class (Photos)
By Minghui School at Taipei
(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, Mingui School in Taipei took the Minghui
article "A Little Girl in Front of a Police Car" (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/1/3/43757.html)
as the topic of the month for their drawing classes. The schoolteachers hope
that this assignment can provide an opportunity for young practitioners outside
of China to protest the brutal persecution which has torn numerous families
apart and orphaned many innocent children. "A Little Girl in Front of a Police Car" tells a real story about a
little who appealed for Falun Dafa at Tiananmen Square. Another practitioner
made a trip to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, to appeal for Falun Gong and protest
the persecution. He was arrested and thrown into a police car. When the car was
about to leave, he witnessed a brave little practitioner's courageous and
righteous deeds. Though the story is rather simple with only a brief dialogue,
it has touched countless hearts. The Art teachers decided to have the class draw in multiple frames to depict
the whole story. They asked the students to use watercolor pens or colored
pencils with sharp tips so that the children could put more details in each
frame. That meant that each student had to draw a few frames on one piece of
paper, although they used to draw only one. It was quite a challenge to the
younger students. The teachers also hoped the students could share their
experiences after completion of the assignment. The goal of the assignment was
to concentrate the individual tiny voices to send their strongest support for
the persecuted Falun Gong children. A student asked a teacher, "How long did it take the little girl in the
story to arrive in Beijing by train? Where did she go after that?" The
teacher estimated that the distance from the girl's hometown Qingdao to Jinan is
nearly four hundreds kilometers, and then it is about five hundred kilometers
from Jinan to Beijing. It is hard to imagine that the little girl of 8 or 9
years old made the trip on her own. "Even if she took a non stop train, the one-way trip would be still
almost eight hundred kilometers. If the little girl only had enough money for a
non-AC slow train, then what strengthened her mind to go to Tiananmen Square to
talk to those policemen after such an exhausting trip?" The teacher asked. Some students in the class answered: "Because she wanted to rescue her
mom and dad..." the teacher nodded and said, "Yes, she didn't know
what to do other than go to the place where her parents were arrested to tell
the police the truth of Falun Gong. In addition, she didn't know where her
parents were and which police car or which policeman arrested her mom and dad.
She went through countless tribulations and hardships and just wanted to tell
the police one truthful and compassionate sentence: "... I came to
Tiananmen Square just to tell my friends the police a few words: Falun Dafa is
good!" All students then asked: "Then what? Was she arrested...?" The
teacher said: "The policemen were silent for the moment. However, where did
the little girl go? Did she have any money to live? Was she going to go back
home? Was her home sealed up? Were there any relatives who would take care of
her? Was she able to take care of herself?... We don't know the answers to these
questions, but if we don't do anything for them, hundreds, or even thousands of
children like this little girl will disappear quietly" This is a touching story about a little innocent girl with a righteous mind
and righteous behavior. What she did brought warmth to those practitioners held
in the police car and shocked the evil. Moreover, it touched all the people with
conscience. "The pure lotus is born from Fa/Mercy
spreads fragrant scent" (Provisional translation) The lesson based on this story has concluded, but will the short episode that
happened at Tiananmen Square permanently take root in the hearts of people? We
truly hope the persecuted children can walk out of the nightmare soon, and have
a happy and peaceful family life as well as the freedom of belief, like other
children in the free world do.
Students absorbed in drawing
The peaceful and compassionate little girl talks to the vicious looking
policeman in the drawings
Young practitioners can shock the evil
Everyone says "Falun Dafa is great" (caption in spelling)
The drawings filled with the students' compassionate support
Auspicious clouds accompanied the little girl
Courageous little girl
The little girl confronts the persecution with a pure heart
The little girl asked: Is this a police car?
The little girl's behavior can be best depicted as a poem in "Hong
Yin(II)"
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/12/31/117634.html
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