Over the past five or six years, Falun Gong has become more and more popular in Taiwan. In Tainan City, which has a population of about 800,000, there are 24 places where one can go to practise and learn the Falun Gong exercises on a regular basis.
The Mayor of Tainan City, Tain-Tsair Hsu, praised Falun Gong practitioners for their peaceful and rational efforts to rescue their fellow Falun Gong practitioners who are being persecuted in Mainland China. During the Sports Festival held on September the 25th 2004, the Tainan City Sports Committee specially invited Falun Gong practitioners to perform a Falun Gong exercise demonstration consisting of a thousand people in the opening ceremony. Falun Gong had two booths at the sports festival. The practitioners participated to let more people to know about Falun Gong.
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| Mayor Tain-Tsair Hsu praises Falun Gong | One thousand Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises |
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| A boy performing the fifth Falun Gong exercise | Introducing Falun Gong to people | People are shocked upon seeing the torture re-enactment exhibition |
The sports festival started off with the large scale Falun Gong demonstration. During the demonstration, the team leader introduced Falun Gong and the illegal persecution in China, and called on spectators to pay attention to the persecution of this group of kind people. The audience responded with warm applause.
Students from the Falun Dafa Club of National Cheng Kung University performed a drama about Falun Dafa, which was first introduced to the public in China. The drama showed how, fuelled by former Chinese President Jiang Zemin's envy, policemen are pushed by higher authorities to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. It also showed how Falun Gong practitioners persist in their beliefs in "Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance" in the face of the evil persecution.
Falun Gong had more performances that any other group during the event, and in addition to the one thousand-person demonstration, there was a waist drum team, and dances by Minghui School students. There were one hundred people playing the waist drums. The momentum was enormous, and it left a deep impression on spectators.
In the afternoon, Falun Gong practitioners continued to promote Falun Gong around the stadium. An "Anti-torture Exhibition" was set up along the street, and many residents were shocked upon seeing the cruel torture currently taking place in China.
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