A Beautiful Memory: Commemorating the Eighth Anniversary of Falun Dafa Being Taught in Jinan City

June 23, 2002 is the eighth anniversary of Teacher Li Hongzhi teaching the Fa in Jinan City, Shandong Province of China. From June 21 to 28, 1994, at the invitation of the Shandong Youth Science and Technology Centre and the Jinan Qigong Science Research Association, Teacher spared no effort to come to Jinan with other practitioners to hold the second series of Falun Dafa seminars at the Huangting Gymnasium. Over 4000 students from all over the country had the opportunity to respectfully listen to Teacher. At that time, the relevant departments in Jinan were also very supportive. The Bureau of the Public Security in the Lixia District especially sent policemen to help to smooth traffic on each evening after the lecture ended. After the seminar series concluded, Teacher also authorized the sponsor, the Shandong Youth Science and Technology Centre, to issue the audio-tapes of the Jinan Lecture.

Under Teacher’s compassionate teaching, Falun Dafa rapidly spread throughout Jinan city and Shandong Province. Up to April 1999, there were nearly 500 practice sites in Jinan City with an estimated 80,000 practitioners. The people in Shandong warmly welcomed Falun Dafa. However, in July of 1999, the Jiang regime began a brutal suppression, ruthlessly persecuting millions of kind and honest people. In the city of Jinan over 300 practitioners were illegally sent to forced labour re-education camps with terms as long as 3 years. Nearly 50 practitioners in Shandong Province have been tortured to death for refusing to give up their beliefs.