UK: Promoting Falun Gong in Manchester’s Chinatown on Chinese New Year

On January the 25th, Dafa practitioners went to Manchester’s Chinatown to join celebration activities for the Spring Festival, hand out flyers and clarify the facts about Falun Gong to Chinese people and westerners.

The number of visitors who came to this year’s Spring Festival celebration activities was more than that of recent years. At midday, there was a huge crowd in Chinatown. Dafa practitioners handed out leaflets to the people on the busy streets. Many westerners also took the initiative to take the flyers, and raised some questions to practitioners. The Chinese people's attitude had also changed a lot. When receiving information from practitioners, many of them sincerely said thank you. Some of them even asked for information about practice sites and said that they would like to learn the exercises.

One Chinese man came up to practitioners to get a flyer. His wife told him, “You should also practise Falun Gong after getting home!" Sometimes, when practitioners handed a flyer to one person who passed by with friends or family, the others in the group would take the initiative to ask for a Dafa Video-CD. Many people said that they had read the materials, and had come to realise the truth about Falun Gong. Upon accepting a flyer, one Chinese person even said, “I haven’t seen your flyers for a long time. Let me see what’s new in it."

The Spring Festival activities concluded at dusk with a fireworks display. Though Dafa practitioners were tired after standing for an entire day, they were delighted that they had handed out all of their Chinese and English flyers within several hours.

What is worth mentioning is that the practitioners who participated in this activity were from many different cities. Some of them were from the UK’s most southernly coastal cities, others came all the way from Scotland and some came from the cities around Manchester to support the event. That evening, they studied Master Li’s new articles and exchanged understandings and experiences with one another. Practitioners believed that they had benefited a lot from holding this activity.