Video: Secrets of longevity from a Chinese man who allegedly lived for more than two centuries
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Officially, the oldest person who ever lived on earth was Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who died at the age of 122. However, unofficially, the Chinese Li Qingyun is considered the longest-living person. His age at the time of death is determined according to various sources, either 190 or 256 years.
Li Qingyun (Li Ching-Yuen) claimed that he was born in 1736, but a professor at Mingquo University found evidence that Li Qingyun was born much earlier, in 1677. In addition to these data, there are also records of the presentation of letters of congratulation to Li by the government of the Chinese emperor in honor of the 150th and 200th anniversary of Li Qingyun. If even one of these documents is true, then the Chinese grandfather was definitely a super-long-lived person who lived longer than anyone else in human history.
Li was born in Sichuan Province and spent his entire life there. From an early age he became interested in the problem of longevity, but his life cannot be compared with the seclusion of a nun. Li lived a busy life, he had 23 wives and more than 200 descendants. If Li really lived for 265 years, then he could see with his own eyes not only his children and grandchildren, but also his great-great-great-grandchildren, and even later descendants.
Li was interested in nature as well as martial arts. From an early age, Lee collected herbs, sometimes even going to Thailand for the plants he needed. He collected many of the herbs for himself, making numerous infusions, others he sold. Even when, due to his health, he could no longer collect the necessary plants on his own, he continued to make infusions from the material that other people brought him. Of course, if you talk about Lee's lifestyle, then you will not hear anything new there: the Chinese have never smoked did not drink alcohol, ate regularly, went to bed early and got up early too. Rumor has it that the secret of Li's longevity is in his magical elixirs, the recipe for which he did not reveal. Others say that it's just the genetics - in the settlement where Lee was born, there were quite a few people who lived to an impressive age. One way or another, people who knew Lee personally remember him as a very generous and kind person with an ideal memory. He could easily remember an event that happened 150 years ago. Local residents claimed that they had remembered Li all their lives, and even when they were little themselves, he was already old then. Some have argued that even their grandparents could not remember Lee young.
Li once said that the secret to his longevity is simple: "." Lee could definitely sit like a turtle and hold his heart - the people around him recall how he could sit for hours in the same position with his eyes closed, palms on his knees and meditate all this time. Lee argued that a calm mind can provide a minimum of 100 years of healthy life.
When Li was 71, in 1748, he moved briefly to Kaixian to join the Chinese army and teach martial arts there. The most famous photograph of Li Qingyun was taken 179 years later - in 1927, when Li was visiting the governor of Sichuan, General of the National Revolutionary Army Yang Sen. Then the general threw a whole banquet in honor of such an unusual guest.
Li Qingyun died six years later. Rumor has it that this was a deliberate choice of a long-liver. There is a legend that Lee said just before his death: “I did everything that I had to do in this world. I'm going home"
You can read about other secrets of longevity in our article. "9 unexpected secrets of longevity from the oldest people on the planet".
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