(Clearwisdom.net, September 2, 2003) On August 30 and 31, Chinese people residing in the San Francisco Bay Area held a two-day "Mid-Autumn Festival Garden Party" at Memorial Park in the City of Cupertino. On this long weekend, the sunshine was bright and moderate breezes blew gently. Nearly 100,000 bay area residents came to attend the garden party, making it a good opportunity to clarify the facts to the public. Falun Gong practitioners performed a set of Chinese folk dances including "colorful lamp dance," "lotus flower dance," "heavenly flying girl dance" and other folk dances. They also demonstrated Falun Gong exercises during the intervals between performances.
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| Explaining the facts to visitors. | Tourists learning the Falun Gong exercises. | Spectators learning the exercises. |
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| Young practitioners playing violin, "On one's way home." | ||
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| Dance: "A drop of water." | Heavenly flying girl dance. | |
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| Exercise demonstration. | Endless stream of spectators coming to watch the performances. |
Group after group of tourists were attracted by practitioners' graceful dance performances. After watching the dance performance, they continued to watch the Falun Gong exercise demonstration. When seeing Dafa banners, some passersby blurted out, "Wow! Falun Gong!" Deeply impressed by the beautiful dance performances, some tourists asked, "Do all of these people practice Falun Gong?" Some people used their cell phones to call their family members to come and watch the performances. They were all very surprised to see so many westerners practicing Falun Gong. Many people heard about Falun Gong's great effects in improving health, one after another, they started learning the exercises.
Passersby who came to watch our performance often crowded in front of our display booth. Some people said, "You follow Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, while what the Chinese party says is all false. They extremely fear the truth and therefore they persecute you." Some passersby said, "Falun Gong practitioners did not do any bad deeds, why would the Chinese government persecute them?" Some said, "I support you and I will help you to let the public know." Some people asked about information of the practice sites.
Over the two days, under the baking sun, practitioners continuously performed dances and demonstrated the exercises. Although they felt a bit tired, they performed whole-heartedly. Their performance won round upon round of applause. Practitioners consider that dance performances coupled with exercise demonstrations and distributing flyers is also a way to clarify the facts.
Numerous people took Dafa introductory flyers. They watched practitioners' performances and talked with practitioners. The beauty and peacefulness of Dafa deeply touched people's hearts.
