Falun Gong Practitioners Shared Chinese Culture at Seattle 28th Chinatown-International District Summer Festival

The Chinatown-International District Summer Festival is billed as the largest Pan-Asian American street fair in the Pacific Northwest.  The event on July 12 & 13th of 2003 marked the 28th anniversary.

During the festival, Asians around the community gathered to offer international food, arts & crafts, community booths and cultural performances.

This is the 4th year that Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Chinatown-International District Summer Festival.  During the event, Seattle Falun Gong practitioners performed Chinese traditional dance Lotus Flower Praise, Tang dynasty fashion show, as well as Cantonese folk song.  The performance received enthusiastic applaud and cheers from the audience.

The booth of Falun Gong was visited by numerous people.  Many watched the exercise demo and inquired about the practice as well as the persecution happening in China.
One Chinese lady, who watched the dance Lotus Flower Praise with her mother, said she and her mother were very touched by the performance.  She said she has two little girls taking dance classes and she was trying to understand the meaning of the dance.  After talking with a practitioner, she could see that the meaning of lotus flower rising from the mud is a symbol of purity in Chinese culture.

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