Plum Blossom in Snow

Today we are going to tell the story of two extraordinary women The first one is Chen Hua She was born into a musical family in Guangzhou The unique gentleness and leadership of southern women made her stand out even when she was still in elementary school She has played important roles in many films and television series Another one is Jiao Jian who was born under the Huang Cheng Gen The bold and free- spirited nature of northern women made her a witness And it also propelled China's largest portal website Sohu And once served as the Southern Manager of Sohu Corporation These two women whose life paths and backgrounds were completely different became close friends through fate and jointly witnessed this era The most difficult and complicated scene - their first meeting - was in a place completely unsuitable for their identities That was on a deserted island I went there by Baidu That desolate island felt like a place abandoned and forsaken just like the old days when people were exiled and sent away So I walked deep into the heart of the island There is a two-story building with a small courtyard in the middle where those detained are people involved in drug use prostitution and theft according to the police they are handling me coldly I'm no longer continuing my conversion work the so-called people I've probably never met before who have completely different living environments and social circles such people being with them to eliminate so There was also a person who had been stolen from assigned to monitor me for 24 hours the so-called home invasion of course I am a person who is rather cheerful and I am also Usually unrestricted It's fine to get along with everyone I still like to get along with everyone no matter what kind of person he is so it didn't take long for me to get along with my roommate we soon became good friends then he told me tha In fact besides you there is also a Falun Gong member here He has been detained for a long time His name is Cheng Hua In 2002 I had already been detained for more than two years at the Chato Women's Re-education Through Labor Camp all alone in a remote detachment We are usually under 24-hour strict surveillance two drug dealers are in charge of us and one day one of the dealers mysteriously told me He said it's likely to come today And this person is someone important said to be a high-ranking executive of a company That evening later I saw a tall girl being escorted past my window by two ordinary criminals I could see a red badge on her chest This means the Falun Gong practitioner who does not convert I believe this is the person described by the family control office this morning I was feeling very complicated at the time one hand I knew that being isolated in this section of the prison was going to mean experiencing very brutal persecution but on the other hand I felt relieved because I had seen it There are still so many Falun Gong practitioners who are firmly cultivating I had the opportunity to make eye contact with her In fact he has been isolated here for so long that he has completely lost contact with the outside world A very simple one Eye contact was for me At that time it was A great encouragement It's a feeling of mutual admiration Once there was a day when my quotation girl told me that she was Chen Hua I was really surprised at that time I thought that person was so strong not to mention someone as strong as me I hadn't expected that She was so petite and delicate so very muc How gentle she is So I was really surprised The first time I saw her Because I think she might also be I was also all of us were not allowed to meet our families We usually don't have relatives coming to visit us There is a view of it inside Same as you people who uphold their beliefs feel closer than family Like this two girls silently warmed and encouraged each other But peaceful days did not last long In the second half of 2002 police from detention centers across the country came to Beijing for training on the brutal methods used to force Falun Gong practitioners to convert After returning a bloody campaign began One day Chen Hua was forcibly dragged into a dark room This black room was covered with newspapers on the doors and windows One of the corrupt officers said "You wanted to practice didn't you " Today we'll let you practice So they tied my legs with a cloth strip in a lotus position and also bound my hands behind my back so tightly that I was like a seed They put me in the middle of the black room This room had nothing except two iron beds Then after they tied me up they took turns sitting on me chopping me and beating me I've thought of every way torment you This kind of continuous wheel-like torture kept going for 14 hours When they lowered my legs I had completely lost all sensation Only way for two people to support me like this So I can appear to stand up Then they used another method called temporary self-driving which meant tying their hands with handcuffs to the iron bed frame and then pulling hard in opposite directions Like a mare being skinned alive That handcuff It is The feeling of it pulling into your flesh Then let me stand like this Standing Then they hit my legs at the same time Then they also asked me Do you feel the pain If you feel pain that's normal It probably lasted about three days and nights That's how it felt to me already a very long time Their goal was for us to write a conversion book They even put a pen in your hand and told you to just scribble on it and that would count as a conversion but none of them managed to do it He was reciting the time next to you an hour two hours At two hours you feel your whole body resisting the pain Sweating all over I had heard that pain could make you sweat but I had never experienced it That was really winter at the time His entire outfit was soaked That until the late night always still not letting go I just felt like an endless darkness As if no matter how you struggled You couldn't escape Endless darkness The surroundings were dark Place it in the center of the ground A person beside them was constantly threatening and even persuading maliciously When they had been shouting for more than a dozen hours I felt my will was already almost dissolving After the torture I was taken back to the prison cell I saw Jiao Jian pass by my window again Seems like his leg is limping He also needs to have his bag to support himself I am very worried about him He must also be enduring the same kind of torture I suddenly realized one day that after Jiao Jian left he never came back You should know what would happen to him in that situation That morning Chen Hua saw Jiao Jian leave and never return which made him very worried Fortunately Jiao Jian had not encountered any misfortune because his serious leg injury was getting worse Under his strong protest the police had to take him to the hospital and his family handled the so-called medical procedures to take Jiao Jian directly from the hospital That Jiao Jian has gone through so much hardship Have you really never doubted Or wavered Whether this cultivation path is real or not Actually this is quite interesting I once worked at a company and had the opportunity to travel to Tibet When I arrived there it left a deep impression on me That place is really where many people kowtow for a whole year I bumped into the outside of the Potala Palace right there I did prostrations every day the purity in their eyes was different from the other temples that had become tourist attractions That left a particularly deep impression on me After I returned to Beijing once I was with my colleagues were talking on the way in the car talking about such an experience the unforgettable experiences I had in Tibet and after I told them about it They told me that there's now a book that many people have read and after reading it they can become great masters When I heard that I thought it was a joke I was inwardly dismissive but when I turned my head I saw the angle and position I was in I still remember it to this day a towering majestic figure a god in armor I can only pretend it's outside my car 30 meters away he was looking straight ahead the helmet armor the spirit plate I could see them clearly He didn't look at me either My car moved and he followed me I stopped at a red light and he stopped too He didn't look at me but he just kept moving like that Is it possible that I'm seeing things I said let's check somewhere else I looked everywhere but there was nothing Just that direction Wherever I went he went with me He didn't even look at me He just kept following me It scared me at the time I said this is too amazing you better hurry up and bring me the book to look at what book is it it's "Zhuan Falun" yes that's really when I finally saw this book I just felt that at that time I thought I understood everything I also felt that I was living but it wasn't quite like that I didn't know although there were some things I couldn't figure out I thought maybe everyone else didn't understand either No one needs to make me understand much that's also not surprising but after really reading this book I really feel This is exactly what I was looking for This is really All my questions I really think Have a most complete answer An adventure on the car Let Jiaojian who once firmly believed in atheism Start seeing the world with a new perspective Confident she Once she found the answer to life She would no longer waver or hesitate While Chen Hua appeared frail on the outside She grew up in praise and applause She never imagined that she would suffer such persecution An experience in late 1999 made her realize the great power she possessed because of her sincere faith I remember December 1999 when I was first put in jail at the detention center in Tianhe District Guangzhou The prisoners there were physically punished to protect us from practicing our exercises The police of the CCP who are persecuting us said that if we Falun Gong practitioners do not give up our cultivation they will continue to beat these ordinary prisoners and make them kneel in the toilet Punish them beat them even threaten them and don't let them go even if the term is extended To protest this unreasonable persecution the Falun Gong practitioners who were detained began a hunger strike The next day the warden of the detention center Zhu Wenyong brought several large male inmates We arrived at the women's prison They said they would carry out a harsh punishment called pouring concentrated salt water He forced more than forty prisoners in a warehouse to face the wall making them present to listen and watch how they tortured us And make them see or create a sense of fear showing what the consequences are if they don't do what the CCP says I remember that even when more than forty people were present it was completely silent only the sounds of the torture devices and the executioners' movements could be heard I remember after this punishment ended I saw the other women prisoners in the warehouse each one trembling like that They were all crying all along but dared not make a sound they were holding it in afraid that if they made a sound they would be subjected torture and suffering They never dared to come and help us again Actually after so many years of persecution it has not made me doubt the Falun Gong but instead has made me more determined because what I have experienced and seen is the CCP that is persecuting us How to use extremely despicable methods to erase the good side of human nature they are not only persecuting Falun Gong practitioners but also a persecution of humanity against others But Falun Gong practitioners even after experiencing such cruel persecution still uphold the belief of benevolence compassion and tolerance since their separation at the labor re-education camp Chen Hua and Jiao Jian They lost contact with each other from then on because of their steadfast faith Chen Hua was arrested six times repeatedly and spent three years in prison He later risked his life to escape China He eventually came to the United States in 2009 A year later The two met dramatically in the United States Snow was falling heavily We are Snowbrow Snowbrow Were you two reunited here back then Yes right here It's Times Square I think it was in 2010 It was right here at Time Square when I saw someone from a distance whose figure looked very familiar and then I noticed that the person still had that same limp in their leg I immediately thought that's not Jiao Jian is it I recognized him at a glance That's him I said this isn' t Jiao Jian But I couldn't believe it at first Ten years have passed That was the second day after I arrived in the US The next day because I heard about the NTD TV station A Chinese cuisine cooking competition is being held here In Times Square I said I'll come take a look Chinese cuisine cooking competition A cooking competition is being held in Times Square square Done It was crowded here I didn't realize I would run into someone I knew then someone came up to me with teary eyes and asked "Are you surnamed Jiao " I said "Oh " I'm so surprised it feels like a different world at that moment I thought this footage from ten years ago the current footage it's like a different world isn't it a bit too stitched together Sure it's like a movie We were really completely oblivious to everything around us We just held each other tightly Ten years have passed It's really a very dramatic reunion That's what good friends are like Yes yes A joyful reunion in a foreign land Jiao Jian and Chen Hua were filled with joy Looking back on the years they endured persecution in China because of their faith The two of them were also deeply moved Many people have asked me "Hey how come you can still smile " I just can't believe it the things you' ve been through You seem so positive and always smiling I think for me now looking back on that period It's really nothing at all just a process in my life because we know that light and kindness will surely reach the end After coming to the United States Chen Hua quickly found a job at a human rights organization Office location Right next to the Empire State Building in New York In a free environment Through cultivation Her weak legs injured by torture Gradually recovered Ten years at Sohu gave him deep thoughts about the future Among those who were early in the internet industry many were besides discovering his own at that time The business value of the Internet the business value of a new technology they also have a certain sense of social responsibility and morality because many of them returned from overseas to start this business They know that the lack of freedom of information makes China actually very pitiable He really said that sentence at the time and I was still very surprised That's actually after you've been through so many things You see the report again and realize it's actually like that I feel that the media's influence on people is really huge working for a free media is Jiaojian 's strongest desire Under Chen Hua's encouragement Jiaojian joined NTD Television which can be viewed through satellite and online offering various ways to watch truly broadcasting over China It opened up a skylight-like space where one could breathe in the air of freedom That's why I decided to join NTD Television I know him very well I know about this aspect of his Although he has never directly worked in the media But I know from his qualities and abilities that these are all very outstanding people and the kind of perseverance and persistence that comes from deep within him I really think it's all NTD's needs I called out at that time this is NTD it's also especially in need of someone like you come join us did you come when he said so Yes when he waved me over I came right away Actually at that time I had already been with that organization for almost two years Moreover this human rights organization still had some prestige and influence in mainstream society They have done a lot of such research on human rights concerns for the Chinese people as well as various appeals which are all remarkable But I feel that if we want to reach a broader audience Whether they are domestic or international people who want to learn more about China must rely on a mass media outlet and according to my understanding NTD is one of the best independent media outlets so I came here I don't know how you two would describe your relationship sisters friends or perhaps more poetically soulmates How would you describe it True friendship through life and dea True connection is hard to describe with words but sometimes it's just a glance at the crucial moment Back then Chen Hua and Jiao Jian went through hardships together Warm and encourage each other with their eyes Now in a free environment The two fight side by side again Jiao Jian relying on his own experience and ability was appointed as NTD Chief Strategy Officer of the Chinese Market And Chen Hua is his most compatible assistant He is a very generous and open-minded person Although sometimes his voice is quite loud And he doesn't always speak in a gentle manner But in fact I do know that his intentions and his starting point are all very good and he is very selfless in helping the media and helping his team members who need to improve in their work Because he is also part of the eternal struggle between good and evil Chen Hua and Jiao Jian this pair of lifelong friends have gone through those hardships and twists together They are now fully utilizing their talents striving for Chinese people to gain free information while in mainland China although the persecution of Falun Gong has not ended it was once the force that devastated them Their forced labor system collapsed while Zhu Wenyong the head of the Tianhe District Detention Center in Guangzhou who once tortured Chen Hua They also ended up in prison due to the mutual infighting among the underworld forces When all these painful experiences become history looking back you will find that kindness is an eternal force while evil can only thrive for a while Thank you for watching our program See you next time on the show