The Moon Is Full And My Heart Is Stirring

It is the time when family and friends get together enjoying the bright full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is also the time that one yearns and sighs with emotion.

The world's affairs are numerous, complicated and ever-changing, people's lives are bittersweet and unpredictable. It is hard to live a smooth life as everyone wishes. As long as one lives, one's life is accompanied by the bitter and the sweet, the gathering and the parting. On the night of this Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon was full, bright, and at its best, but my heart was not. I looked at the sky and wandered under the lonely moon, my heart was filled with pain and anguish.

During the 1990's, in China, the reforms started and the economy took off. The quality of life improved as days went by. The tragedy is that people's minds were changed significantly. People had changed from "looking forward" to "looking for money." Personal gain was everything. People had become more selfish and frightened. For money, the officials would take advantage of their positions and become corrupt; the people would take great risk, and collude with officials or gangsters to bully others. China became a land of gangsters. People became atheists and imbalanced. Morality collapsed and things deteriorated quickly. The whole society was a mess!

At this particular moment, there emerged a magnificent scene in China. It was like a lotus flower rising from the mud, pure and beautiful. It made everything fresh and new and attracted the publics attention. From 1992 to 1999, nearly 100 million people embraced Falun Gong. The emergence of Falun Gong brought joy and hope to millions of lost souls. From then on, people regained purity spiritually.

When the number of participants grew larger, unfortunately, even the most glorious thing would be viciously attacked under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

In July of 1999, the king of terror landed from the sky. In Beijing, at Zhongnanhai, the wildfire of jealousy was accompanied by a strong wind that swamped everyone. Thus, it burned the clouds in the sky, toasted the rocks in the mountain, scorched the dirt on the ground, and darkened the rivers. The perpetrator was none other than the ruler of the CCP, Jiang Zemin, who claimed to "represent the people and progress." The blaze totally destroyed this glorious lotus and the pure land, and sent the entire nation back towards moral deprivation and total destruction.

In order to destroy people's belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance," the suppression was extremely evil and severe.

In June of 2003, Ms. Wei Xingyan, a 29-year-old Falun Gong practitioner and a master's degree student in the College of Electrical Engineering in Chongqing University, was abducted and raped in public by the police. After this atrocity was disclosed, Ms. Wei disappeared and her whereabouts are still unknown. The CCP's goal was that if it could not destroy one's belief, it would destroy one's will to live with prolonged imprisonment and torture.

On June 16th, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong, a staff worker at the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, passed away in the First Medical Centre of the China Medical University in Shenyang City after being severely tortured. Gao was 37 years old at the time. To destroy Gao's steadfast belief in Falun Gong, the extremely violent and wicked CCP police continuously disfigured her face with electric batons for seven hours. After that, the police injected her with neurological drugs to damage her brain. In the end, the police took her life with brutal torture.

Mr. Liu Chengjun from northeast China tapped into the Changchun cable TV station on March 5th, 2002, and broadcast a video detailing the truth of the persecution against Falun Gong. The heroic acts of Mr. Liu and his coworkers quickly revealed the lies that are used to persecute Falun Gong and disclosed the truth. The frightened dictator immediately gave the order to "kill without pardon", and thousands of Falun Gong practitioners were abducted. On March 24th, Mr. Liu was arrested. The police intentionally fired two shots into Mr. Liu's legs after he was handcuffed and shackled, severely injuring him. After twenty-one months of torture, Mr. Liu died in a hospital in Changchun at 4:00 a.m. on Friday, Dec 26th, 2003. The eyewitnesses saw blood in Mr. Liu's nose and ears and on his legs. A large number of police gathered in Jilin Prison that day and were ordered to cremate Mr. Liu's body.

Over the past six years of persecution, many good lives have been lost and many smiling faces have disappeared. According to a report on the Clearwisdom.net, 2,728 people have died in the persecution. Numerous families have been torn apart, leaving the helpless elderly and children behind.

I walked alone under the full moon and the cool autumn breeze, and my heart was overwhelmed with many past tragedies. I could no longer bear the sorrow of so many people! Fortunately, "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance" is invincible, and this righteous belief could never be taken away! Falun Gong has spread to over 70 countries. Falun Gong is growing stronger every day, and it also has won the support of the people and justice around the world.