From an Ugly Duckling to a Beautiful Swan

(Minghui.org) Believe it or not, I am healthier and look prettier than when I was young. After practicing Falun Dafa, my knee and back rheumatism, and migraines disappeared. The people around me who support Dafa were also rewarded and blessed with health and happiness.

I was the youngest child of eight in a poor family. My sisters and brothers all said I was ugly and looked like the village idiot.

In my 20s, I had small eyes, puffy upper eyelids, a narrow forehead, misshaped head, and protruding mouth. My body build looked like that of a man, and I wore a troubled expression on my face.

A group of my coworkers once went to a photo studio. When I saw my image, I cried; I never saw anyone uglier than me! I tore it up before anyone else could see it.

Changes After Practicing Falun Dafa

I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1996, at the age of 28. I learned that heaven rewards people that do good and punishes those who do bad, and those that follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance will be blessed. My heart was filled with sunshine; I felt reborn!

I tried to be a good person and always considered others first. I gained good health, and started to look younger and prettier.

In 2007, I went to a detention center to visit a fellow practitioner who was illegally detained. The guard looked at my ID card, then looked at me in surprise. She asked if it was really my ID and exclaimed, “You look much younger than this photo!” The ID card was issued in 2002. Another guard also looked at me and made a similar comment. I almost couldn’t get in because I looked very different from my photo.

When a woman who owned a small stall in the local market saw me, she hugged me and exclaimed, “You're so beautiful. I really envy you!” She said that my eyes were so beautiful that they looked like a deity from a painting. Some people called me “sister deity.”

I used to have no clue about music and sang like I was tone-deaf. On the day after the Chinese New Year, I wanted to go to a practitioner’s home to watch a Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra video. My husband asked, “Why do you want to listen to an orchestra? You don’t know anything about music!”

“I’ve improved during my cultivation. I can understand it,” I replied.

When we watched the composition “The Great Emperor Kangxi,” I cried. I watched the concert three times. Each time I cried. When I listened to the Erhu solo “A Dafa Disciple’s Heart,” I couldn’t control myself and cried again. A fellow practitioner told me, “Who said you don’t understand music?”

I have practiced Falun Dafa for 24 years and experienced so much. I followed Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and have treated hardship as joy. I felt that Shen Yun’s music expressed the whole journey of my cultivation.

Vegetable Vendors Are Blessed by Dafa

A couple selling vegetables, whom I’ve known for more than 10 years, always supported Dafa. I’ve often paid for their vegetables with bills with Dafa truth-clarification information printed on them. I once gave 300 yuan to them. The husband glanced at the bills and put them into his cash box without counting them.

They trusted me completely. I was also allowed to go through their cash box to look for new bills to print information on. Sometimes, they weren’t even around, and the cash box had as much as 10,000 yuan in it.

When I thanked the wife for allowing me to select new bills from their cash box, she replied, “We should thank you. You brought us blessings in making a good fortune!” I told them they were blessed because they supported Dafa.

I once jokingly asked their eight-year-old daughter if they were afraid that I would steal their money. The little girl answered, “No! My mom and dad said you practice Falun Dafa.”

Dafa has blessed them, and their business is the best in the market. In the past 15 years, they earned enough to purchase two homes and a car. During the worst of the pandemic lock down, when most districts did not allow residents to leave their buildings, they were allowed to sell vegetables, and their income did not reduce much.

The Dried Shrimp Vendor

Mr. Zhang sells dried shrimp. He is always seen reclining in his folding chair, looking happy and satisfied. His business is the best among the dried shrimp vendors in the market. For over 10 years, he has been collecting new bills for me to print Dafa information on. About every 10 days, he gives me between 400 to 700 yuan of new bills in exchange for my printed ones.

“I’m collecting new bills for you because you are a good person,” he told me. “I once intentionally gave you 10 extra yuan, but you found it and returned it to me.”

A vendor next to Mr. Zhang said something bad about Falun Dafa and threatened Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang was frightened and said something bad about Dafa as well. After I heard about it, I told him, “Don’t say such a thing. There’s no need to be afraid, Master Li (Dafa’s founder) will protect you because you support Dafa.”

“Dafa indeed protected me in the past!” Mr. Zhang replied as he described an accident that happened a year ago. He and two other people were in a truck when it rear ended another truck. Mr. Zhang went through the front windshield and escaped with only a scratched neck. However, the driver and the passenger in the back seat died at the scene.

Several days after he said bad words about Dafa, three of his electric tricycles loaded with dried shrimp were stolen. The total loss was in the tens of thousands of yuan.

I told him that it was retribution for saying bad things about Dafa. “I won’t do it again, I promise!” replied Mr. Zhang.

When I was once exchanging bills with him, he counted them and said I gave him 100 yuan less. Although I was sure I gave him the correct amount, I gave him another 100 yuan. After I shopped around in the market, Mr. Zhang returned the 100 yuan to me.

I recently saw him twice. He looked great! He has been blessed for supporting Dafa.

My Family Gained Good Health

My family members: my mother-in-law, my sisters, and niece are blessed as they often recite “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! ”

My mother-in-law was 72 when I got married and was in bad health. She was usually hospitalized twice a year. She is now 89, and her health is getting better and better. She hasn’t needed to visit the hospital for the past five years.

My second sister used to have stomach problems and got motion sickness easily. Before she was 50, she never left the village by herself. She is now 70, and her stomach problems have disappeared. She can take buses to visit her children in the city by herself and no longer gets motion sickness.

Back in 2001, my fourth sister had uterine fibroids. Her family couldn’t afford an operation, which would have cost 2,000 yuan. When I was released from the forced labor camp, I had no place to live. She and her husband took me in for six months, and her uterine fibroids vanished without a trace.

My niece was diagnosed with advanced stage small-cell lung cancer the day after she gave birth. She was on a ventilator. While in the ICU, she remembered to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” She was able to live for two more years.

Master Li said,

“When people show the appropriate respect and reverence toward Dafa as it manifests here in this world, they, their race, or their nation will enjoy blessings or honor.” (“On Dafa” Zhuan Falun)

I hope more people will remember to recite “Falun Dafa is good!” which will help them during this final phase of Fa-rectification.