United States: Falun Gong Stands Out in Chinese New Year Celebration in Quincy, Massachusetts

The 23rd Annual Chinese New Year Festival was held on February 3rd, 2011, at North Quincy High School. Quincy is a natural for a Chinese New Year's celebration as the town boasts its own Chinatown. The festival attract thousands of people every year. Falun Gong practitioners participate in the event each year by setting up a booth where they demonstrate the exercises, offer free instruction on how to make folded paper lotus flowers, and clarify the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. The Falun Gong booth is one of the most popular booths during the New Year celebrations.

Introducing the goodness of Falun Dafa and details of the persecution in China

Falun Gong practitioners demonstrate the exercises at the Chinese New Year Celebration

Quincy residents are happy to learn the facts about Falun Dafa

Quincy resident Katey was interested in the Falun Gong exercises when she saw practitioners demonstrate them. She said that she would go to a nearby practice site the next day to learn.

A woman stopped in front of the Falun Gong booth and said that she knows Falun Dafa practitioners to be kind people. “We attended the Shen Yun performance yesterday in Boston, it was really amazing!” she said.

Another woman walked up to the Falun Gong booth and made a Heshi gesture and respectfully bowed to the portrait of Master Li Hongzhi.

Meaghan Raftery from New York has seen Falun Gong anti-torture exhibits in New York, and understands how cruel the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is in the persecution. She said that people should have sympathy and be compassionate and caring for others. She condemned the CCP's inhumane atrocities committed against Falun Gong practitioners.

The Falun Gong booth also attracted the attention of a journalist from the largest local newspaper - The Patriot Ledger. He specifically came to interview the practitioners for a news report.