(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners took part in the Asian Cultural Festival held at Tropical Park in Miami, Florida from March 4-5, 2023.

Organized by the Thai-American Association of South Florida together with the Miami-Dade County Asian American Advisory Board, the annual festival promotes the importance of cultural diversity in building a vibrant, prosperous and healthy community.

Practitioners have participated in this event nearly every year. They demonstrated the exercises, gave out information about Falun Dafa and told people about the ongoing persecution in China. Many residents and tourists learned about Falun Dafa through this event.

Practitioners introduce Falun Dafa during the Asian Cultural Festival.

Practitioners show people how to do the Falun Dafa exercises.

Some event-goers approached practitioners and asked, “What is Falun Dafa?” They accepted information as well as lotus flowers with the website address on it. Some said they felt the beauty of Dafa and expressed anger at the CCP’s (Chinese Communist Party) brutal suppression of the practice. They told practitioners that they would go online to find out more about the mind and body practice.

After one man learned the exercises at the event, he said his back and spine felt relaxed. He said he was interested in learning more about Falun Dafa.

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why Is the CCP Persecuting It?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises, have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.