Chinese Citizens lend a Helping Hand to Those Who Practise Falun Gong

Over the past a few years, I have come across many people who had come to see the true situation about Falun Gong through Falun Gong practitioners' efforts. Some of them started to practice Falun Dafa whilst others have been very supportive towards practitioners and have even helped them with regards to Falun Gong. Here I'd like to share some stories of how a few people helped those who practise Falun Gong. I am using assumed names for those people to protect them from persecution.

1. Quite a few of Da Zhi's relatives practise Falun Gong. Da Zhi read the core text of Falun Gong teachings in the book Zhuan Falun before the persecution started on the 20th of July, 1999. He helped the local practice site to print Faun Gong related materials and Teacher's articles many times. Since the persecution started, several of his family members were illegally detained, sent to brainwashing classes, or closely monitored. Police searched their homes, confiscated their personal property, imposed fines, and withheld their salaries. Facing the persecution, Da Zhi still determinedly supports Falun Dafa and lends support to those who practice. During a period when the practitioners responsible for distributing materials were sent to forced labour camps or closely monitored, Da Zhi stepped forward when it was very difficult to get hold of Falun Dafa materials. With the support of his family, who practice, Da Zhi took on the responsibility of downloading Teacher's articles and materials from the Falun Gong websites, making a huge contribution to the local area.

2. Da Hua's wife is a practitioner. Since she started to practice Falun Dafa, her health and her attitude towards life and others improved greatly. She was healed of her illnesses and she started to truly care for her mother-in-law and her brothers and sisters. She was responsible and so she took care of many chores. Da Hua saw her go through these changes, so he supports his wife practicing Falun Dafa. In the spring of 2002, a local part of an agency called the "610 Office" which has been specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems, tried to send her to a brainwashing class. She firmly refused to go. Da Hua drove her to another city to avoid further persecution. The local "610 Office" forced Da Hua's employer to suspend him. Later his wife returned and continued with her activities to let people know the true facts about Falun Gong. When she needed to get hold of some materials about Falun Dafa from other areas, Da Hua would drive her there. Da Hua would tell his coworkers and friends about how Falun Dafa teaches people to be good and improves people's health, often using his wife as an example.

3. Xiao Zhou owned a bookstore. Before the persecution, his store sold thousands of Falun Dafa books and therefore helped greatly in promoting Falun Gong in his local area. Since the persecution started, he transferred the two hundred copies of the Falun Dafa books that he had left to a safe place. Police searched his store several times and wasn't able to find any of the books. Later Xiao Zhou told his friends who practise Falun Gong that he still had some Falun Dafa books. One of them asked him to send the books to people who practise. In the spring of 2004, he delivered all the books to practitioners in his local area and in other places. His action was sincerely appreciated since it was very difficult to find any Falun Dafa books. Xiao Zhou has several friends who practice Falun Gong. Over the past few years, his business has grown rapidly and he now he owns several bookstores.

4. Xiao Nan owns a copying shop and has a few friends that practice Falun Gong. Xiao Nan came to understand that Jiang Zemin was lying to his people. He felt the persecution was very brutal and admired Falun Gong practitioners. When these practitioners asked him to help with the printing of truth-clarification materials, he agreed even though he knew how brutal the "610 Office" is in dealing with people distributing these materials. Over the past few years, when night fell, Xiao Nan would start printing Falun Gong materials. He has been a great help to local practitioners.

5. Lingling and Dongdong are both high school students. Their mother practises Falun Gong. Both their sister and brother support their mother in the practice and telling others the true facts about Falun Gong. When it is time to send forth righteous thoughts, they reminded their mother. During the holidays or their breaks, they would prepare meals so that their mother can study the teachings of Falun Gong. They would remind their mother to be careful when she went out to distribute materials with fellow practitioners. One night, their mother planned to ride a bike to go to a place a few miles away to post some Falun Dafa leaflets. Dongdong insisted in going with her. His mother said, "But don't you have homework to do?"

Dongdong said, "I'll finish my homework after we come back."

They went out together, posted many leaflets and returned safely.