(Minghui.org) To welcome the 2016 Chinese New Year, Falun Dafa practitioners and their supporters both inside and outside of China have sent greetings to the founder of Falun Dafa, Master Li Hongzhi. Along with the written greetings are scores of homemade greeting cards, poems, and photographs expressing gratitude and good wishes to Master Li for a Happy New Year.

A selection of the 27 greetings come from Falun Dafa practitioners in rural areas of China: Hunan Province, Sichuan Province, Hebei Province, Tianjin, Liaoning Province, Shandong Province, Heilongjiang Province and Henan Province.

One greeting wrote, “Although we have never seen Master before, we knew deeply that Master is always by our sides, looking after us. We can only require ourselves to be more diligent, save more sentient beings and cultivation ourselves well. We know that we have many shortcomings that needs to be improved. We truly hope that we can quickly do well and reduce Master's worries.”

Another practitioner says, “Having cultivated for over ten years, I finally enlightened why Master has been saying that studying the Fa is important. Many things were not completed well due to not paying attention to studying the Fa. In this new year, I must study the Fa well, do what a Dafa disciple should do and use my actions to repay my gratitude to Master's infinite Buddha grace!”

An elderly practitioner also send in his greetings together with his wife who is a non-cultivator.

Falun Dafa Practitioners from Rural Areas of China Wish Revered Master a Happy Chinese New Year!