(Clearwisdom.net) I am Zhu Xiyu, a Falun Gong practitioner. Since I started practicing Falun Gong in 1999, all my illnesses, including heart disease and kidney disease, have disappeared. My husband passed away when I was in my twenties and I had to raise my son all by myself. I went through a lot of hardship and was overwhelmed by life. As time passed, I became sicker and sicker. I don't know if I would be alive to today if I did not practice Falun Gong.

Though I didn't attend Teacher's lectures in person, I have heard many, many stories about them from those practitioners who did. As I understand more in my cultivation. I realize that the Fa Teacher taught at Yanji City, Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture on August 20, 1994 is the law of the universe. Yanbian is the only minority region that Teacher visited to teach the Fa and by himself. During that time, Teacher wrote three poems. He went to every exercise site, bought tape recorders for practitioners, and donated the rest of the proceeds from the Fa lecture to the Yanbian Red Cross. Teacher left unlimited benevolence to the sentient beings in Yanbian and brought unlimited opportunities. It was a great honor for the people of Yanbian.

But Jiang Zemin and his group spread lies about Falun Gong to poison the public and damage the law of the universe. They have committed immeasurable crimes. The people hurt the most are those who didn't understand the truth and were deceived by Jiang's propaganda. As practitioners, having benefited from Dafa, we can't only think of our own safety and let the public be deceived. Teacher has told us that those who try to damage Dafa will not have a future. Therefore, I have kept doing what I should do in Azalea Square; openly displaying a truth-clarification banner, openly doing the exercises, openly clarifying the truth and advising people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Youth League and the Young Pioneers. I will do anything, as long as it helps save sentient beings.

Every morning, when most people are still sleeping, I start the five sets of exercises on Azalea Square. I also tell those people doing morning exercises or passing by, the facts about the persecution.

Since 2005, in order to help more people understand the truth and display the wonderfulness of Dafa to people, on the square I displayed banners that read "Falun Dafa Is Good!" "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance Is Good!" "Heaven Will Soon Eliminate the CCP", and "Make the Three Withdrawals to Be Safe!" In 2007, practitioners around the world began to do exercises at the same time each day. I do the exercises in the center of the square at that set time. I openly distribute truth-clarification materials and clarify the truth face-to-face. From the freezing-cold winter to the summer's baking sun, from the period of brutal persecution to the more relaxed environment of today, I have been in Azalea Square day in and day out, year in and year out.

Since the CCP's persecution began on July 20, 1999, I have been illegally arrested twenty-six times for clarifying the truth. I held hunger strikes twenty times to protest the persecution. I was once detained and tortured in a mental hospital. On September 1, 2003, I was arrested by the police from the Henan Police Station in Yanji. I was cuffed to an iron chair for a whole night and brutally tortured. When I was at forced labor camps, no matter how painful it was, I held a hunger strike to protest the persecution and didn't comply with the evil. I kept shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" and "Teacher is good!" The guards at the forced labor camp gave up on changing me and released me before my term was completed. Since then, the forced labor camp didn't want to take me anymore. I came back to Azalea Square! Still smiling, calmly and benevolently, with no feeling of pain or sadness, I handed truth-clarification fliers to people one by one. When I hear the person who learns to the truth say "Thank you," I forget all my pains because a life is saved.

Dafa disciples in Yanbian have edited a series called "Stories of the Azaleas" in Minghui Weekly, with the true stories of practitioners in Yanbian, including the stories of over twenty practitioners who were tortured to death, the stories of thousands of illegally imprisoned practitioners, and countless stories of Dafa disciples working to save people. Yanbian is a minority region. Dafa practitioners of the Korean race and Han race, out of the benevolence and forbearance that they cultivated from Dafa, validate the Fa and save those sentient beings who are facing elimination for persecuting them! I hope the "Stories of the Azaleas" will help more kind Chinese people understand the truth and choose a bright future for themselves!