Not Giving in to the Persecution

December 1st, 2002

I was among the first batch of undergraduates after the Cultural Revolution and I am a teacher in a top high school. My school performance had been excellent and I have received numerous awards from different levels. Later I had nephritis and my cardiac problem became progressively worse. In addition, I had a physical disability from an accident and could not take care of myself. My symptoms remained the same after prolonged treatments and I was in such a miserable state that being alive seemed no better than being dead. In 1998, I was fortunate enough to come across Falun Dafa and begin my practice. After practising for just a month, my body became healthy and strong. Half a year had passed when a classmate of my son came for a visit. He could not recognise me and asked my son, "Is that your mother?" "Yes, it is.", "How could she become 20 years younger?" I told him, "It is because I practise Falun Dafa."

When Teacher and Falun Dafa were slandered by a vile person in power, naturally I wanted to let our government know that Dafa is good and that my Teacher is innocent. However, the people in power withheld more than 20,000 Yuan [Over three year's salary of an average urban worker] from me for peacefully appealing for a stop to the persecution. They forced me into a mental hospital twice, injecting and feeding me large doses of drugs that are used only for the mentally ill. I, a normal and healthy person, became catatonic. All of my family members' hearts were broken.

When I fully recovered, I immediately took my elderly mother, who was nearly 90 years old and was worried about me, home to stay with me and to practise Falun Dafa. She had been paralysed for several years but in less than two months she could walk and take care of herself. Her appearance also changed and she looked more youthful and her skin became fresh and looked healthier. She used to hardly have any energy, but after practising Falun Dafa she could stand in front of a window on the second floor and talk loudly to the people passing by. Her hearing and vision also became very good. Our neighbours said that she looked like she was in her sixties.

However, at the end of 2001, I could not come home due to the persecution. My elderly mother was taken home by her son who was deceived by the Jiang regime's lies. He was afraid that my mother could be arrested like me so he watched over her and did not let her do the exercises. During the half-year at her son's place, she often asked her daughter-in-law, "Please play the Falun Dafa video lectures now." Her son's wife said hopelessly, "I do not have the tapes." My elderly mother was not allowed to do the exercises or study the principles of Falun Gong and her physical condition gradually deteriorated and became worse and worse. She could no longer move and became paralysed again. There were two large bedsores on her body, which became ulcerated. The pain was hard to endure and she groaned for days and nights; none of the treatments that she was given had any effect. At this time, I was helped out and was released from the detention centre and I immediately went to rescue my mother. However, it was too late, as she had already become unconscious. She could no longer listen to the Falun Gong lectures or do the exercises. She also could not recognise me anymore. However, she still murmured, "My saver has come." With a little hope, I moved my mother into a small house to take care of her, hoping to bring her back from the shadow of death. But all of my efforts were in vain as she was unconscious. Over the following half month, she groaned for days and nights, and her body became covered with weeping sores. During this period, I basically went without sleep. I cleaned her body and attended to her constantly. The outcome was opposite of what it could and should have been; her life was finally taken away. She was very clear at the end of her life. She struggled, uttering, "Falun Dafa is good" twice. Then she gestured the family members to help her sit up to do the sitting exercise. She had no more energy to sit up so I used my back to support her back so she could sit. She used all her energy to conjoin her hands to Jieyin [A hand gesture of Falun Gong exercises]. My elderly mother left this world reluctantly.

My family was also broken. During the period when I was suffering from the persecution, my husband could not endure the mental torture, left me and married another woman. He sent my 15-year-old son to a school in another area. During this one-year period, my son often told the teachers and classmates that his mother was arrested for practising Falun Gong (since the wicked people dared not let my family members know where I was kept, it was hard for my family members to find me). Thus when I came back, I no longer owned my former living place and had no living necessities. In order to take care of my elderly mother and get my child back, I rented a small house. Now I only have my son left. I took out my limited savings to make some materials revealing the truth about the persecution and continued to firmly practise Falun Dafa.

I sincerely hope people will wake up quickly and stop the persecution of Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners by Jiang’s regime. These tragedies cannot continue any longer. My fellow Chinese citizens, please wake up.