The oldest person in the world is from China, and he is 256 years old. According to the Guinness World Records, the oldest person is China health qigong master Li Qingyuan. Born in the 18th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi, he died in the 24th year of the Republic of China (1679- 1935) at the age of 256. Li Qingyuan was born in Yunnan, and settled in Kaixian County, Sichuan in his 90s, until his death. Liu Chengxun, a native of Kaixian County, Sichuan Province, paid a special visit to the old man on 1925. Liu's interview and reminiscence articles were published in the sixth issue of Qigong magazine 1986, and there was also 1000 words of Immortality dictated by the birthday girl. After the death of the old man, some newspapers in Beijing reported on the topic of "the longest-lived person on earth", but it was doubted and denied by Guinness World Records at that time, and was later confirmed by many textual researches.

According to the statistics in 2000, there are 1 10,000 centenarians in China. According to the latest statistics of the United Nations, the global elderly population is 629 million, accounting for 10%. In 2002, there were about 265,438+00,000 centenarians in the world, with an average of 33.39 per million people. Gong Laifa, Guizhou, China, died at the age of 1.996; Li Qinglian, a medicine farmer in Qingchengshan, Sichuan, died at the age of 154. Iranian old woman Mohsen, 1997 16 1 year old; There was a man named Manping in Japan who lived for 242 years, his wife was 22 1 year-old, his son 196, his daughter-in-law 193, his grandson 15 1 year-old, and his daughter-in-law 138. Li Qingyuan, a scholar of traditional Chinese medicine in China, died at the age of 256 at 1933. The above proves that people who live to 100 or even 200 years old have made undeniable achievements. According to Xinmin Evening News, according to historical records, the oldest person in the world is Bk Frem Kahn of Britain, who lived for 209 years and experienced 12 dynasties (but strangely, it is not recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records published in Britain, the author's note). How long is the average life expectancy of ordinary people? Scientists believe that it can be measured by the following methods: first, according to the age of sexual maturity, it is 14- 15 years old, that is, 140- 150 years old; Second, according to the growth age, it is seven times that of 20- 25 years old, that is, 140- 175 years old; Third, according to the number of cell divisions, it is 50 times the average cycle of each cell division of 2.4 years, that is, 120 years old. More experts prefer the third algorithm. 1994 At the seminar on "Molecular View of Aging" held in Berlin, Germany in February, when answering the question "How long is the life span of people", the answer of more than 40 life scientists attending the conference was: theoretically speaking, everyone can live to 1 10 years old.

China people, also known as sons and daughters of China, descendants of China, descendants of dragons, etc. "China people" has multiple meanings, has the title of nationality attribute, has various conceptual titles, and even has different definitions on various occasions or positions. In addition to the objective definition, usually his own recognition of the surrounding society (value factor) also plays a very important role. Now it refers to all people who hold China passports and nationality.

Use the concept of "clan" to define: Chinese (Chinese with ancestors from China and China descent, regardless of whether they are mixed-race or not, and regardless of how many generations ago their ancestors came from China). China people do not necessarily have China nationality. In the early days, most overseas Chinese retained their China nationality. Today, most overseas Chinese have usually acquired the nationality of their country of residence, and generally only identify themselves as China people, not China.

The people of China are kind and simple, with a high sense of collective honor, holographic way of thinking and rich feelings, and have created a profound and unique Chinese civilization in the past 5,000 years.

Define by the concept of "geography": people born or living in China. Define it with the concept of "race": mainly yellow people.

Defined by the concept of "clan", it refers to "China people" or "Chinese people" (people with China ancestry from China, regardless of whether they are mixed-race or not, and regardless of how many generations ago their ancestors came from China). Chinese or ethnic Chinese do not necessarily have China nationality. In the early days, most overseas Chinese retained their China nationality. Today, most overseas Chinese have usually acquired the nationality of their country of residence, and generally only identify themselves as China people, not China people. After China opened its doors to the outside world in modern times, many China overseas immigrants who were born in China and obtained foreign nationality agreed that they were still from China.

Generally speaking, Chinese are mainly distinguished from ethnic groups, while China people are mainly distinguished from ethnic groups. These two meanings are not quite the same.

Chinese (race) = China Han people with similar ethnic origin to Han people+overseas people with similar ethnic origin to Han people.

China people (nationality) = people from 56 ethnic groups in China+immigrants from other ethnic groups with China nationality.

Now most countries in the world can distinguish the different meanings of race and nationality, so there is little controversy about the use of the word Chinese. The use of the term "China people" involves political issues: cross-strait issues ("one China", "one China's various tables", "two China", "special two-state theory" and "one China, one Taiwan"), the problem of Chinese in Southeast Asia, the integration of immigrants from other countries and national identity.