Original text of Eat Porridge by Lu You in Song Dynasty:

All the people in the world are seniors, but they don't realize that many years are in the present.

I had to follow the popular method and only give porridge to the gods.

Translation:

Everyone in the world wants to learn how to live a long life, but they never realize that the secret of longevity is at hand. I got the poet Zhang Lei Ping and a simple regimen, as long as I eat porridge like a fairy, I can prolong my life.

Extended data

This is a poem written by Lu You at the age of 74. The late autumn in the poem refers to Zhang Lei, a poet of the Song Dynasty, who is also called "Four Bachelor of Su Men" with Huang Tingjian, Chao and Qin Guan.

Lu You's Eat Porridge is based on Zhang Lei, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. The whole poem affirms that eating porridge is a way of longevity in popular language.

Modern scientific research shows that rice contains starch, fat, protein and many minerals, and it is rich in nutrition. Just because of the limitation of the times, it is impossible for Lu You to be familiar with these nutritional values of porridge, but his experience that eating porridge can prolong life coincides with scientific truth, which is quite commendable.

This poem was written by the author, which mainly tells the benefits of drinking porridge to prolong life and expresses the author's love and admiration for drinking porridge.

The so-called "eating porridge to become immortal" does not mean that you can become immortal by drinking porridge. The original intention of this poem is to say that porridge has many health-preserving functions, and eating porridge regularly and selectively is helpful to health and longevity.

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