(Minghui.org) I’m a 94-year-old woman who never had any formal education and didn’t know how to read. I used to have many ailments, including chest and back pain, chronic bronchitis, and tendon sheath inflammation. All these conditions disappeared after I practiced Falun Dafa. I also learned how to read the book Zhuan Falun. I can now read road signs, too. All my family and friends think it’s a miracle.
I would like to share how Falun Dafa has changed me.
I went to my son’s home for the Chinese New Year in 1999. I noticed my daughter-in-law reading a book and asked her what it was. She said, “It’s Zhuan Falun. It’s about self-cultivation. Reading the book can make you a good and healthy person. Would you like to learn it?”
“How could I?” I asked. “I can’t read a single word.”
“I’ll teach you,” she said, but I wasn’t sure if I could. She encouraged me, “I’m sure you can learn it if you want to.” I said I wanted to, so she said, “Let’s get started now.” She pointed at the words in the book as she read. I repeated the words after her sentence by sentence. That is how I started to learn Falun Dafa. She also showed me how to do the exercises.
The next morning, I followed my daughter-in-law to a group exercise site. I even completed the entire half-hour of the Falun Standing Stance on my first try. I watched video recordings of Master’s lectures and exercise teaching during my stay at my son’s home.
On January 3 of New Year, my daughter-in-law told me that she was going to go to a large group exercise event in the city. When I told her I wanted to go, too, she hesitated: “It’s windy today, and you are still coughing. Why don’t you stay home and rest?”
I had been coughing the whole winter, actually, but I said, “I’ll be fine. I can take you there by three-wheeler.” My daughter-in-law didn’t know how to ride it. Seeing that I insisted on going, she eventually agreed.
I put on my cotton-padded jacket, my thick coat, and a scarf big enough to cover my nose and mouth and rode the three-wheeler against the wind. I felt hot after a while and took off my scarf. We arrived at a large square in the city. The square was filled with practitioners, men and women, old and young.
We did the excises together to the music. I wasn’t very familiar with the movements at that time and had to keep my eyes open to follow along, but I felt extremely comfortable after doing the five exercises. We talked with others about cultivation experiences after doing the exercises.
Since it was a chilly and windy day, we decided not to stay long. All of us picked up trash and left the square clean. I thought, “The people who do this practice are so self-disciplined. It’s a such a great practice!”
I didn’t cover my nose and mouth with the scarf on my way home. To my surprise, I didn’t cough at all and didn’t feel tired despite riding the three-wheeler for a long time. After that, my cough, chest pain, and back pain, which had tortured me all winter, were completely gone—after I’d only been practicing a week. Soon afterward, my other ailments were gone. The practice is so great!
I never went to school for a single day. After marrying my husband, I moved from the countryside to a town and worked in a textile factory. I didn’t know how to write my name, so I had to give a fingerprint as a receipt when I got my pay.
When I first started reading the Fa, I had to follow my daughter-in-law’s lead. I had to repeatedly ask my children how to read the words I forgot when I tried to study by myself. They were very patient with me. I also begged Master Li to help me learn how to read Zhuan Falun. I continued to ask and learn. Before I knew it, I could read the whole book by myself. All my family and friends knew that I couldn’t read. They were thrilled to see that I could read the book by myself and praised Falun Dafa!
I was out walking one day when I realized I could read the road signs. I told the person with me, “This is such-and-such road.”
Surprised, he said, “You can read the road signs! Your practice is wonderful! It has improved you health and enabled you to read!” I said it was thanks to Master Li and Dafa.
I went to visit my younger daughter about two years after I started practicing. While taking a shower, I slipped and fell, but I wasn’t hurt. I fell in the bathroom one day last May, but I wasn’t hurt then, either.
One day last December, I was walking in my younger daughter’s neighborhood when I fell again. A passerby helped me get up and asked if I was fine. I told her, “I’m fine!” Indeed, I wasn’t injured in any of these accidents. It was because Master was protecting me!
In January this year, I started shivering after I woke up from a nap. I put on a sweater and a thick coat, but I was still cold. My daughter-in-law gave me a hot water bottle, but I still couldn’t stop shivering. She put her hand on my forehead and said, “So hot! You are running a fever.”
I had woken up late that morning and had only done the first, third, and fourth exercises. After seeing I had a fever, my daughter-in-law did the second exercise with me. I could barely stand because of the shivering, but I did the Falun Standing Stance while leaning against the furniture. After that, I sweated a lot, and my fever was gone. All my discomfort was completely gone. Falun Dafa can do anything! Thank you, Master and Falun Dafa!
I often repeat “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” in my mind. I can take care of myself, and I look healthy with rosy cheeks. Nobody believes I’m 94. I tell them, “Master and Falun Dafa have given me great health. Master has always been with me. Master and Dafa are the best!”
Thank you, Master!
(Selected submission from in celebration of 2026 World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.org)