07/26/2026
“A News Report That Changed This Couple's Life”
(Minghui.org, July 25, 2026 — Minghui correspondent Shen Rong)
Every year, as the height of summer brings July 20th around again, a Taiwanese couple, Mr. and Mrs. Gan, are stirred by especially deep feelings. “We began practicing in 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its crackdown on Falun Gong, after seeing it reported on television,” they say. “Our whole family has benefited from Dafa. Our physical health and our happy family — all of it we owe to Dafa. Now that such a wonderful practice is being persecuted, we must stand up and speak a word of justice. That is the most basic duty of being a decent person.”
Turn the clock back to the summer of 1999. Media around the world were broadcasting news of the CCP's sweeping crackdown on Falun Gong. At the time, a couple living in Taiwan sat watching the coverage, their eyes fixed on the screen as tens of thousands of people quietly practiced the exercises in a public square.
Mr. Gan Xufeng, then in his forties, listened to the news of the crackdown and thought to himself: “I don't know anything about this practice, but the CCP has always persecuted whatever is good. If so many people are willing to keep practicing despite the danger, there must be something truly wonderful about it — otherwise the CCP wouldn't be this afraid of it.”
Around that time, Mr. Gan's health had begun to decline. A bad cold dragged on for over a week without improving. Though he was used to smoking and drinking, he began to realize just how important his health really was. Then, as fate would have it, not long after, his wife came across a small business card at a bookstore that read: “Free Falun Gong Classes.”
Looking at the card his wife had brought home, Mr. Gan remembered the crackdown he had seen on television and immediately dialed the number on it. To his surprise, he was told that that very evening was the first day of a free nine-day Falun Gong lecture and exercise class — and that it would begin in less than half an hour.
Mr. Gan said at once, “All right, I'll go right now.” That single step not only confirmed what he had felt while watching the news, it also changed the course of this couple's life.
Waking Up from a Life of Excess
At the time, Mr. Gan had a regular group of friends he met with every night to play mahjong, drink, and smoke. On the day of the class, he told them, “Tonight I'll go take a look and see what it's about. Tomorrow I'll be back for mahjong.”
But something remarkable happened. The class lasted two or three hours, and although he normally couldn't go even half an hour without a cigarette, he didn't feel any urge to smoke the entire time. He himself was astonished: “Going thirty minutes without a cigarette was simply impossible for me — yet I sat through a class that long and never once thought of it. How could that be? It's just so strange.”
The next day, instead of joining his friends as promised, he went back to the nine-day class. By the third day, his friends — who hadn't believed he would keep skipping their gatherings — were stunned. By the fourth day, it was as if Mr. Gan had suddenly woken up from a life spent in a drunken daze, and he understood, for the first time, what it truly meant to be alive.
That night, he announced to his friends without hesitation: “Don't wait for me anymore. I've found a wonderful practice, and from now on I'm going to cultivate myself properly and be a good person. No more smoking, drinking, or mahjong for me.”
With one player gone, it was hard for the group to fill the mahjong table, and his friends couldn't understand how he had simply quit, just like that. They assumed it was only a passing whim — but twenty-seven years have now gone by, and Mr. Gan has never once returned to those old gatherings.
The change in Mr. Gan went beyond his personality and habits. His tennis elbow, once so painful he could barely lift a rice bowl, healed on its own — without any medication — after he began studying the teachings and practicing the exercises. And the heavy smoking and drinking habit he had carried for over a decade was completely gone within a few months.
A Gentle Transformation of Old-Fashioned Machismo
No one was more astonished by Mr. Gan's complete transformation than his wife, Lin Jinxian, who lived with him day in and day out.
The old Mr. Gan had been a classic case of male chauvinism, with a tongue as sharp as a blade. His wife described it vividly: “The way he used to talk, it really was as if he had a knife in his mouth. The other person would already be bleeding from what he said, and he wouldn't even notice — he never stopped to think about whether he might be hurting someone.”
But after he began learning Falun Dafa, this same man started picking up the broom to sweep and mop the floors on his own initiative, and began washing dishes and doing laundry, sharing the housework. So when he asked her, “Shall we take the kids to check out the nine-day class?” she agreed without a second thought.
Mrs. Gan admitted that she had always disliked reading. But every word and sentence in Zhuan Falun revealed profound principles she had never encountered before, as if a clear spring were flowing straight into her heart. For the first time in her life, she found that reading could bring such happiness and joy. “It was such a thick book, but the more I read, the more I loved it — I finished the whole thing in almost a single day. I surprised even myself.”
The more she read, the more she loved it. She began measuring her own words and actions against the principles in daily life, and personally experienced the wonders of Dafa.
A Fall from the Second Floor — and a Miraculous Recovery
One day, on her way to do the exercises in a park, she accidentally fell from the second floor. The impact was severe, and half her body was covered in bruises. Even so, Mrs. Gan gritted her teeth, made her way to the park, and completed the full set of exercises. The moment she finished and lowered her hands, the excruciating pain on that side of her body suddenly vanished, and her injuries healed at a remarkable speed.
[Photo 1: Mr. and Mrs. Gan practicing the fifth set of exercises in a park. (Minghui.org)]
Not long after this fall and unexpectedly rapid recovery, the most stubborn health problem in Mrs. Gan's body was also rooted out.
“When I gave birth, I was given a spinal anesthetic. The doctor inserted a thick needle into my spine, again and again, several times over...” Mrs. Gan recalled, the fear of that memory still lingering. The birth itself went smoothly, but those repeated injections left a serious aftereffect. On rainy days, the area along her spine would ache so severely that she couldn't straighten her back, and she often had to go to the hospital for an IV drip just to find relief.
This decade-plus of suffering was rooted out in an extraordinary way not long after she began her cultivation practice. One day, Mrs. Gan felt a pain in the lower part of her spine, and a hard lump rose up there, leaving her whole body deeply uncomfortable. When Mr. Gan came over to look, he found that a swollen abscess had formed at the exact spot where the anesthetic needle had once been inserted during childbirth.
Mr. Gan recounted: “I squeezed it, and something like toothpaste came shooting straight out — it must have been several centimeters long.” Remarkably, Mrs. Gan's back never ached again after that, and her whole body became free of illness.
Genuine Generosity at the Scene of a Car Accident
This past March, Mrs. Gan was involved in a frightening traffic accident, struck hard by a car while riding her scooter. Amid the screech of brakes, she and her scooter went down onto the road. Afterward, she slowly got up, brushed the dust off herself, and instead comforted the shaken driver who had hit her, saying, “I'm fine, don't worry. I know you didn't mean to.”
“The impact was so strong that both vehicles were wrecked, yet I wasn't hurt at all,” Mrs. Gan said. “I knew right then that Master had protected me in that instant. So all I felt in my heart was gratitude — it never even occurred to me to blame the other driver or ask for compensation.”
Through this incident, the young woman who had hit her came to sense the sincerity and generosity of a Dafa practitioner, and to recognize that she had encountered a truly good person.
Standing Firm for Justice Through the Years
Mr. and Mrs. Gan are now in their sixties, but every year, as the height of summer brings July 20th around again, they are still stirred by especially deep feelings. “We began practicing in 1999, when the CCP launched its crackdown on Falun Gong, after seeing it reported on television,” they say. “Our whole family has benefited from Dafa. Our physical health and our happy family — all of it we owe to Dafa. Now that such a wonderful practice is being persecuted, we must stand up and speak a word of justice. That is the most basic duty of being a decent person.”
[Photo 2: The Gan family practicing together, living in harmony. (Minghui.org)]
This brutal, inhumane persecution has torn apart countless families in China and taken the lives of countless good people. Yet no amount of state power has been able to silence the voice of justice. Over these twenty-seven years, more and more people, having come to understand the truth, have instead chosen to step onto the path of Falun Dafa, choosing a new and healthy life for themselves.
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