(Minghui.org) In the bustling East District of Tainan, at the intersection of Dongning and Linsen, there is a small spot of reprieve: the Qingfa Angelica Duck Restaurant. Locals love it for the delicious food, low cost, quality ingredients – and, most importantly, the owner Mr. Zhao Junxiong who makes it all happen.
Mr. Zhao Junxiong, owner of Qingfa Angelica Duck Restaurant
When asked about how he operates his restaurant, Mr. Zhao replied, “I'm a Falun Gong practitioner. I must always keep others' well-being at heart and ensure that customers enjoy the food in my restaurant.”
Mr. Zhao applies the Falun Gong principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to every aspect of running his restaurant. He only uses top quality ingredients in his restaurant and maintains high hygienic standards. This means a higher cost and less profit for Mr. Zhao, but as long as his customers are at ease, so is he.
Thanks to his tasty recipes and wholesome ingredients, his restaurant has become widely popular, attracting both returning and new customers alike.
“The food I provide must not only taste good, but also be healthy and nutritious so that customers can enjoy their food with no worries,” Mr. Zhao said. “ I feel happiest when I see my customers enjoying their food.”
Every morning, Mr. Zhao goes to Dongning Park to do Falun Gong exercises before he starts work at around 8:30 a.m. The exercises, says Mr. Zhao, keep him energized until he closes up shop after 8:00 p.m.
People also speak highly of his honesty and kindness as a Falun Gong practitioner.
Once, a lady bought some take-out food, and dropped a 500 dollar banknote on the floor when she left. Luckily, Mr. Zhao saw it. He ran to call the lady back and returned the money to her.
“Falun Gong people are indeed different,” the lady said gratefully.
Another time, a customer tried to pay for his meal with a grocery item. After Mr. Zhao found out that the customer was in a difficult financial situation, he let the customer have the meal on the house.
Treating family members with kindness and compassion
Mr. Zhao is also kind towards his family members. There are four generations of his family currently living him, with Mr. Zhao as an only child to his parents.
After his grandmother became bed-ridden after an operation, his parents often called upon him to help her with her difficult bowel movements and to help bathe her. Before he started practicing Falun Gong, he found this a pointless and tedious chore, and he didn't see why his father couldn't just take over. Mr. Zhao had a business to run, firstly, and secondly – shouldn't the son take care of the mother directly?
His attitude changed after he began practicing Falun Gong. He now believed that everything happens for a reason, and as a Falun Gong practitioner he should always consider others first. So, whenever his grandmother needed his help, he would be at the ready.
It was no easy job. The smell was so overwhelming that his whole family would evacuate to the second floor to escape it. But Mr. Zhao didn't mind, and continued to take care of his grandmother.
His grandma was blind by then but she was still grateful to Mr. Zhao. Each time he helped her, she would hold his hands and thank him.
“No worries, granny. This is what I should do,” Mr. Zhao would reply.
Mr. Zhao was also responsible for cooking for this family. He made sure that his parents and his grandma had three meals on time every day, and all their neighbors praised him for being so good to his family.
Later, when his parents and grandmother developed serious health problems, Mr. Zhao spent a lot of money on their medical treatment. But they did not recover very much initially. To make things worse, the car he had just purchased got stolen.
All of this upset his wife, who complained to him, “It's bad luck to be married to you. Why do I have to experience all these miserable things!”
Mr. Zhao didn't get angry or hold any grievances. Instead, he looked inward and apologized to his wife, treating her with kindness and earnestness. His wife was deeply touched by his sincerity, especially when he was under such tremendous pressure himself, and they resolved the conflict peacefully.
Mr. Zhao does everything to the best of his ability in daily life, and also takes good care of his children. He takes them to school and picks them up every day, and tries to teach them well by setting a good example himself.
He also tries to do as much housework as he can to lessen the burden on his wife. He often shares the understandings he has gained from practicing Falun Dafa with her, hoping that one day she will also pick up the practice and benefit from it.
“Falun Dafa changed my life”
At the age of 52, Mr. Zhao looks like a healthy young man in his 30s. However, his health wasn't this good years ago. He suffered from severe allergic rhinitis, which made it extremely difficult to breathe. He took many medications and sought both holistic and traditional remedies, but nothing seemed to help.
Just as he was feeling hopeless and depressed, he ran into a Falun Gong practitioner in the neighboring laundrette, who invited him to try out Falun Gong. He did, and not long after, all his health problems disappeared. Since then, for the past twelve years he has been enjoying good health and is looking younger by the day.
Falun Gong not only helped him regain his health, but also turned him into a better person.
“I didn't understand much about tolerance in the past. It was through practicing Falun Gong that my heart and soul was cleansed; I learned to think for others in my daily actions, and have become a good person who is truthful, kind and tolerant,” he said appreciatively.
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