Families are the cells of a society. Harmonious and happy families are the cornerstones of social stability.

 

However, agitated and attempted by the fallacies such as "to get rid of attachments," "to go to a higher level," and "to reach the Consummation" advocated by Li Hongzhi and his cult Falun Gong, some practitioners infatuated with Falun Gong discarded their husbands or wives and their family. Many families were broken.

 

● Liu Changhong discarded the sister- brother affection to "go to a higher level."

 

Liu Changhong was a teacher at a primary school in Dandong City, Liaoning Province. Her brother unfortunately contracted leukemia. All the family members were worried. When the doctor said, the only way to save her brother was bone marrow transplantation, Liu Changhong said firmly that she would donate bone mallow to her brother.

 

However, Liu Changhong began to practice Falun Gong soon. After that, she turned into another person. She lost the affection to her family and often slept out at night. Later, she did not come home for some 10 days.

 

Her family spent tens of thousands of RMB on her brother's illness. Her family was not rich and her parents were mentally and physically exhausted. But Liu Changhong was obsessed with Falun Gong and never mentioned the bone mallow transplantation again. She said: "I want to go to a higher level; therefore, I should act upon what my Master says. I will discard ‘attachments' and eradicate ‘fame, interests, and sentimentality.'"

 

● Falun Gong destroyed Guo Jianrui's happy family.

 

Guo Jianrui, a worker of Changsha Logo Band Factory in Hunan Province, ran a small bookstore with Ye Sijing, his wife, after retirement due to illness. Although the income was meagre, their family was warm and happy. However, Falun Gong took all this away from them.

 

In 1997, Ye Sijing started practicing Falun Gong, and she spent less and less time attending the bookstore. Sometimes, she was away for a week or fortnight. Finally, she never cared about the bookstore and no new books were purchased. She changed completely. What made Guo Jianrui more heartbroken was that, influenced by his wife, their son who was originally obedient and biddable began to practice Falun Gong too.

 

What Ye Sijing did all day long was cultivation or sleep. Fewer customers came to the bookstore and business became slumping. The boy's academic record went down sharply. The unreasonable boy once put a kitchen knife on his neck and said to Guo Jianrui: "Leave me alone, remember? Otherwise, I'll kill myself."

 

● Tong Yan's family was broken by Falun Gong.

 

At the night of December 16, 1999, Tong Yan, female, a native of Liaoning Province, killed her 6-year-old daughter Xu Che on bed with a kitchen knife. Tong Yan started to practice Falun Gong in October 1999. After killing her daughter, she ran down stairs bare-footed and shouted: "Up to the heaven. Up to the heaven..."

 

Xu Aijun, her husband, said: "My wife used to work hard and to be considerate of our parents before she practiced Falun Gong. She was also an understanding wife and a loving mother."

 

What "magic power" induced an understanding wife and a loving mother to kill her own daughter? Tong Yan recalled: "A devil told me that I could cultivate into a Buddha if I killed my daughter."

 

● Feng Lifeng drowned herself in a river.

 

Feng Lifeng, a farmer in Jixian County, Tianjin, was bewitched by Li Hongzhi's fallacies. She drowned herself in a river in March 1999, which brought a great hurt to her 12-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter. Their schoolrecords declined sharply. Her husband had to make money for the family and look after the two children. This was beyond his tolerance. Feng Lifeng's old mother could not help her tears when she thought of her daughter's death and the family tragedy caused by Falun Gong.

 

● Zhang Jian jumped off a building and died. Parents buried their son.

 

Zhang Jian, an engineer in the Communication Station of Fujian Oil Refinery and Chemical Plant, poisoned by Li Hongzhi and Falun Gong, jumped off a building and killed himself in February 1999. His parents lost their only son and no one cared about their life. Tears bathed their cheeks all day long.

 

● Wang Xidong jumped from a truck and died, leaving his parents behind.

 

Wang Xidong, a native of Dandong City, Liaoning Province, jumped from a truck and died on August 21, 1999 after he practiced Falun Gong. He was the only child to his parents. His wedding was due in a month and the bridal chamber had already been decorated. Everything was ready: The invitations being delivered. But Wang headed for his doom following Li Hongzhi's fallacy. It was such a heavy mental blow to his family that they could hardly bear the pain.

 

● Falun Gong put on three tragedies at Tian Jianguo's home.

 

Tian Jianguo, a worker in Nanyang Cereal Co., Ltd., and his wife Wang Peng, started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and soon became obsessed with it. They not only spent all their time in practicing, but also asked Tian Pei, their 15-year-old son, to practice Falun Gong from dawn to dusk. In order to cultivate Gong whole-heartedly as his parents, Tian Pei became weary of studying. He started to go to school late and leave earlier. He played truant now and then afterwards. And at last, he stopped schooling and practiced Falun Gong whole-heartedly at home. The Tians were poisoned by the idea of "going to a higher level" and "reaching the Consummation." They thought that practicing Falun Gong was more important for their son than learning knowledge in class. Their son would be more promising by following the master than studying at school.

 

Tian Jianguo and his wife, regarding each other as a fellow practitioner, thought the other party was the obstacle on the way to a higher level because the "level" of the other party was too low. Finally, they divorced.

 

Tian Jianguo's father suffered a severe gastric ulcer. He was extremely worried about his son, his daughter-in-law, and his grandson because they were all bewitched by Falun Gong. His son divorced; his grandson left school; and finally, his daughter-in-law together with his grandson left home. It was too much for an old man like him. His illness got worse and he died soon.

 

● Falun Gong verged Li Xiuqin's family on collapse.

 

Li Xiuqin, a native of Lianzhuang Town, Ninghe County, Tianjin City, started to practice Falun Gong in March 1997 and became obsessed with it gradually. She practiced around the clock and cared about nothing else at home. Liu Hetian, Li's husband, was unable to concentrate on his work as the result. Their carton factory, which used to be prosperous, was also on the verge of bankruptcy. Their children's academic records went down. To make things worse, bewitched by Li Hongzhi's fallacy of "removing karma," Li Xiuqin rejected medical treatment after ill. She even did not allow her own son, Liu Wenyong, to go and consult a doctor when he was ill. Liu Wenyong suffered from a skin disease at the beginning of 1999. Liu Hetian intended to send their little son to hospital but was stopped by Li Xiuqin. She treated her son with her "Gong" according to Falun Gong teachings. Thus the illness of the boy was left unattended.

 

Soon Liu Wenyong's illness deteriorated: Large black and blue speckles appeared on his skin. Some even festered. The local hospital initially diagnosed the illness as skin cancer. Liu Wenyong had to suspend his school and stay at home. The boy's grandparents were overwhelmed with sorrow and thought of killing themselves. The whole family was verged on collapse.

 

Family tragedies caused by Falun Gong strike the world time and again. Countless innocent people are led astray by Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong organization. Under the temptations such as Consummation, ascending to heaven and becoming Buddha, many obsessed Falun Gong practitioners are lured into destroying their own families.