(Clearwisdom.net) On January 23 and 25, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from many nations held two grand parades in Paris. While people celebrated the Chinese New Year, practitioners displayed the beauty and purity of Falun Gong through elegant traditional dance performances.

Paris residents and tourists from other regions of France and other nations said that these parades were very successful. They think that these parades are much different from the parades that were organized by governments [The Chinese and French governments organized another Chinese New Year parade and Falun Gong was excluded from that parade because of pressure from Chinese authorities], which had so many police and security officials that spectators could not get very close to the procession.

Many people thanked Falun Gong practitioners for providing them with such a wonderful performance and said that they will continue to support Falun Gong and request China to stop the persecution of Falun Dafa.