(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners and others have sent countless greetings, poems, and homemade cards to extend heartfelt New Year's greetings to the compassionate and selfless founder of Falun Dafa, Master Li Hongzhi.

The greetings come from practitioners, both new and veteran, as well as from non-practitioners who have learned the truth about the greatness of Falun Dafa and about the horrors of the persecution in China. The greetings and cards express heartfelt gratitude for the numerous positive benefits Falun Dafa has brought to the lives of practitioners and those around them, and for the immense compassion and mercy Master Li has shown to all.

The large number of greetings and expressions of gratitude from around the world bear witness not only to the majesty of Falun Dafa, but also to the tremendously high esteem in which Master Li Hongzhi is held.

The Chinese language version of the Minghui website posted some 78 pages of greetings like this one today. Click the image to see them all.

Of particular note are the numerous greetings sent in from Mainland China. Falun Gong and founder Master Li Hongzhi are widely respected and honored by tens of millions of practitioners in China despite the relentless and brutal persecution that Falun Gong continues to face at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party regime.

Thousands of greetings are successfully delivered to the Minghui website despite the so-called "Great Firewall of China," a massive Internet censorship mechanism specifically tuned to stop any Falun Gong related Internet traffic from entering or leaving the country.

One can only wonder, if the "Great Firewall" was gone, how many tens of thousands more greetings might Master Li receive?

And now, with the Year of the Horse upon us, we wish a Happy Chinese New Year to all!