Meeting Chinese Students in Germany

It was a spontaneous idea, to go to the Sinology Institute in my city to post flyers requesting to meet Chinese students for language and cultural exchanges. A week later the first young Chinese man called. Today we met downtown. We went to a café and sat together with three Chinese men: A Hong Kong Chinese who already spoke German fairly well and two other Chinese from near Shanghai. We spoke about China, Germany and culture. We were in a relaxed mood and laughed a lot.

It was actually not my intention to mention Falun Gong during this meeting. But somehow we touched on the theme of Chinese calligraphy. The only Chinese calligraphy characters I knew how to write were “Zhen, Shan, Ren.” As soon as I had written them down, one of them said, “Oh, Falun Gong” and laughed at the two others. Our topic of conversation for the remainder of the evening had been established. It was really a nice evening, everything loose, nothing was contrived, everything was natural and we did laugh a lot more. That way we were able to explain the truth, in a friendly, cordial manner.

After a while the Hong Kong Chinese wanted to know whether we had an exercise group around here. He wants to come to the park tomorrow to learn the exercises. He commented, “How funny; I come to Germany to learn Falun Gong!” The other two were at first somewhat more reserved. I think they are somewhat afraid, “because in China it is forbidden to practice Falun Gong.” As we parted, those two also said,” Until tomorrow then!”

I think our honest conduct and sincere motivation will enable us here, in a country foreign to the Chinese, to prove to them that Falun Dafa and Dafa students are very good people. “De guo ren zhi dao – Falun Dafa hao!” (Germans know that Falun Dafa is good)!

By German practitioners