Over 5,000 Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Annual Character Formation

TAIPEI, Taiwan—About 5,200 people got together at the island’s iconic Liberty Square on Dec. 9, arranging themselves into giant colorful Chinese characters and images to draw awareness to their spiritual practice, Falun Gong. To make the event possible, a retired architect created a blueprint in advance. For three days before Saturday, more than 100 local Falun Gong practitioners traced the master image onto the event floor with threads and sitting mats—each to be seated during the event. Dressed in yellow, white, blue, red, and black, Falun Gong practitioners walked up to their spots in an orderly manner on Saturday. About 2,000 formed the center image of the “law wheel,” known as “falun” in Chinese, which includes the traditional Buddhist “srivatsa” and Taoist “taiji” symbols. It is the emblem of Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, which translates as “Great Way of the Law Wheel.”...