(Clearwisdom.net) On July 10, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners in Yilan, Taiwan held an exercise demonstration to introduce Falun Dafa at Dongshanhe Tsin-shui Park, where the annual International Children's Art Festival is held. The six-week-long festival is ten years old now. Because the festival invites a large number of art performance groups from around the world and always has something new and fresh to present, it attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists from across Taiwan each year to enjoy the show and the scenery. Falun Dafa practitioners use their vacation time to come here to introduce Falun Dafa and distribute truth-clarification materials.

Demonstrating the sitting meditation, the fifth set of Falun Gong exercises

Demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises

Demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises

This year, 24 foreign performance groups from Honduras, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, Cameroon and other countries were invited to attend the festival. It seems to be a small United Nations! Because the performers stay at Yilan University, the practitioners contacted these young performers in advance and presented them with Falun Dafa books in different languages, bookmarks, truth-clarifying video CDs and music CDs composed by Dafa practitioners.

Since 2000, Falun Gong practitioners from Yilan have come to the festival each year to introduce Falun Dafa to participants and tourists. They often teach the Falun Gong exercises to foreign delegations. The festival has provided a very good opportunity to spread Dafa to people from across the world.

At the 2001 Children's Art Festival: Teaching the fifth Falun Gong exercise - the sitting meditation - to groups from Spain and Benin

At the 2001 Children's Art Festival: Teaching the exercises to the group from England

At the 2001 Children's Art Festival: Four hundred Falun Gong practitioners holding group practice

Many practitioners who participated in this activity said that they have benefited from this wonderful practice. They shared how the practice has been spread to 78 countries and areas throughout the world and how the practice, which has received more than 1,300 awards, has been recognized by people from all different nations. Unfortunately in Mainland China, because so many people practiced Falun Gong, the Communist Party under the instigation of former president Jiang Zemin, has been brutally persecuting this wonderful practice. Practitioners who resolutely uphold their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance have been suffering cruel persecution over the past six years in China. Yilan practitioners believe that as more and more people learn the facts, awareness of the truth of Falun Dafa and the persecution will eventually grow, and the persecution will end.