On May 13, 1992, Mr. Li Hongzhi walked up to a podium in a high school auditorium in his hometown of Changchun to address a crowd of around 180. It was his 41st birthday, a day that is now marked around the globe as World Falun Dafa Day. Each listener was handed a 12-page booklet titled “Falun Gong” that contained line drawings of meditative exercises. Each day after lecturing, for nine days, he demonstrated the moves in detail and walked around to correct each person’s posture.