(Clearwisdom.net) I am a woman approaching 70, illness free and quite agile. My physical strength and mental clarity are even better than when I was young. I am proud to say that I exude youth and energy. But it is our magnificent and compassionate Teacher that awoke me from the labyrinth of the secular world. He saved me from the sea of bitterness and gave me a new life! I would like to thank Teacher from the deepest recesses of my heart for saving my life!

I was employed at a middle school for over 40 years and was a victim of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) lies for decades. During the Cultural Revolution that began in June 1966, I was pulled before a crowd by red guards and made to wear a large wooden sign, "Wealthy Capitalist" and "Counter-Revolutionary." Every day the red guards criticized and physically abused me. For example, they stacked two chairs on top of a desk, made me stand on the top chair, and then pushed me off the chair to the floor. They continued the torture until I became handicapped.

I suffered cruel torture for a number of years. In the midst of the Cultural Revolution, I was pregnant with my son and almost died giving birth. When I was about to go into labor, I asked the school's labor propaganda team for days off so that I could give birth at a hospital, but the request was denied. I had no choice but to give birth on my own on the floor of a cow pen. Several fellow schoolteachers heard me moaning in pain and risked their own safety to find a midwife for me. The midwife and my colleagues managed to carry me to a bed. After I gave birth to my son, I became very ill. I was diagnosed with inferior vena cava obstruction [obstruction of blood flow through the superior vena cava (SVC ), the major vein that carries blood from the head, neck, upper chest, and arms to the heart], which caused terrible pain in my legs and made my legs swollen and purple. It's not just my legs; my entire body suffered unbearable pain. Despite my condition, I was taken outside to be criticized by the mob just five days after I gave birth.

In the middle of a night, a kindhearted colleague threw me a crumpled up paper from outside the window that said, "The labor propaganda team will use a spiked club to hit you. The club will pull out your flesh. Stop being obstinate or you will lose your life!" After reading the note, I felt death around the corner. But I mustn't let my son die with me. I must protect this poor child. When he grows up, he will seek justice and clear my name. My mother-in-law had come to visit me for about 10 days, but I asked her before dawn to take my son to her home 200 miles away. She was in tears before she left. I knew it would not be easy for her to raise a newborn baby without a wet nurse or money. Back then, my salary had been suspended for three years. With tears in my eyes, I told my mother-in-law, "Mother, you must bring him up no matter how difficult it is!"

After she left, I fell in despair and wanted to kill myself. But I decided I must live and therefore I must escape. I knew that only then would I stand a chance to survive. I decided that I would never allow myself to be captured again. At around 10:00 p.m., I made it through several checkpoints and escaped from the school. (It was in the middle of the winter and no one stood guard outside.) I decided to flee to my older sister who was about 600 miles away. I endured the severe leg pain and illness and walked to a train station about three miles away. I wanted to board the train, but was penniless. With the help of a kind stranger, I was able to pay for the train ticket. By the time I arrived at my older sister's home, my legs had become so swollen that I couldn't remove my pants. The next day she took me to a hospital. About six months later my husband was released. He came to pick me up and took me home. At the time I still suffered great pain and was bedridden and it was very difficult to move around.

I then heard from my parents that my sister-in-law, who was my best friend, had become mentally deranged after she was told that I had become a victim of the Cultural Revolution, and had been bullied and abused for years. She would go to the edge of the village every day and ask every passerby, "Will my sister-in-law come home alive?" But no one dared offer her any solace because everyone was afraid to be involved! One day she stood waiting for me to come home from morning to late afternoon. She was very disappointed when she returned home and committed suicide! My mother was all alone. A month later, my mother fell at home, but no one was there to help her up. She died with her eyes open shouting my name!

In the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, like a ferocious wolf, the CCP claimed many of my family members' lives and caused me to become handicapped and ill. The 12 diseases I was inflicted with during the Cultural Revolution tormented me for many years and caused me to lose hope. I often felt that I would be better off dead than alive. After the Cultural Revolution, the CCP reversed the false charges against me. In my town, I was the person who had faced the most false charges leveled during the Cultural Revolution. The CCP reversed the four charges they charged counter-revolutionaries with. Therefore, I thanked the CCP for its "mercifulness" and often sang propaganda songs to praise Mao Zedong. I even cried until I passed out when Mao Zedong died. But for decades I struggled to work because of the many illnesses and disabilities the CCP has inflicted on me. For over 30 years I had worked as a school principal and established one excellent school after another. I had completely forgotten that I almost didn't survive CCP persecution. I couldn't tell right from wrong when I was brainwashed and praised and supported the CCP.

For over 30 lost years, I must have accumulated much karma from praising the CCP. However I didn't know that what I did was shameful! The excellent books and articles on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website removed the blindfold and helped me to see that the chairmen of the CCP were not heroes, but scoundrels and dictators. I have seen through the nature of the CCP and become clearheaded. The CCP is an evil specter that has taken the lives of over 80 million people during all its political movements from the time it took power in China. The number of its victims exceeds the total number of deaths in WWI and WWII combined. Since 1999, the CCP has suppressed Falun Gong and persecuted kindhearted Falun Gong practitioners. The CCP has become the greatest disaster that ever walked the earth. Heaven shall annihilate it eventually!

When I started practicing Falun Gong, Teacher saved me from the boundless sea of bitterness and put me on the Fa boat heading for home. Teacher awoke me many times from sleep. Teacher purified my body repeatedly and purged what tainted my soul! Teacher has saved me from the greatest disaster in the universe!