Most tourist attractions such as Changshou Town are composed of centenarians, and most visitors want to be exposed to longevity.
But compared with more and more centenarians now, a man named Li Qingyuan was the real longevity of the Qing Dynasty. According to legend, he was 256 when he died!
Legend Lao Li Man Qingyuan
Li Qingyuan is said to have been born in the 16th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, namely 1677. The most popular legend about him is that during the Jiaqing period, he treated people in Kaixian County, Sichuan Province. Because of his superb medical skills, he soon became a famous imperial doctor, and even had a legend that he could cure all diseases.
At this time, Li Qingyuan was about 150 years old. According to other people's descriptions, he is tall, ruddy, smooth-skinned and has an excellent appetite. The only difference from others is that he has no hair and beard. According to Li Qingyuan himself, he used to have hair and beard, but later he lost them all.
Li Qingyuan, a Chinese doctor, has a long life. Naturally, someone asked him the so-called "secret recipe for longevity", and he also answered it. To sum up, there are probably three reasons:
Li Qingyuan doesn't smoke, drink or drink tea. She has a regular diet and is a vegetarian all the year round. Li Qingyuan has its own recipe of "Bai Cao Chang Sheng Fang", which contains black beans, honeysuckle, seaweed, green tea and so on. According to him, this prescription can promote blood circulation, relieve constipation and induce diuresis, and it can achieve the three links of the human body, which is of great benefit to the body.
Li Qingyuan also put forward a set of health formula: "Sit like a turtle, walk like a bird, sleep like a dog", which is still the key research object of many health and qigong experts until today.
Because of Li Qingyuan's accomplishments in TCM and his longevity, the Qing court awarded him the "Contribution Award of TCM" when he was 65,438+000 years old. At the age of 200, he was invited to give a speech at a famous university. At the age of 250, he even won the cleverest award of the Republic of China.
Li Qingyuan experienced eight emperors in his life, and even changed dynasties. In such a long time, his honor just crossed from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. How legendary! The romantic life of such legendary characters is naturally wonderful.
It is said that Li Qingyuan had 24 wives and more than 65,438+080 children in his life. Although at first glance, this figure is very large, considering his time and his 256th birthday, this figure does not seem to be exaggerated. After all, when Li Qingyuan was young, he was still in the era of three wives and four concubines, so it was unusual to have many wives.
From this perspective, Li Qingyuan's status as a long-lived old man seems to have been settled, but things are far from simple. With the development of the times, people are surprised to find that the legendary story of Qingyuan, an old Li Man, may have been a hoax from the beginning after breaking away from the environmental restrictions of closed news.
Amazing scam! Li Qingyuan's False Life
First of all, there is no official record of Li Qingyuan's life, and all his life experiences are passed down by word of mouth. However, it is said that Li Qingyuan won the contribution award of traditional Chinese medicine from the imperial court at the age of 100. If there is such a thing, there should be no historical data to check.
In addition, when Li Qingyuan was 65,438+000 years old, Emperor Qianlong was in power. Emperor Qianlong, who is famous for respecting the elderly, held thousands of banquets for the long-lived elderly people all over the country, even presented royal wine to the elderly over 90 who attended the banquet, and even presented six top hats to two elderly people over 0/00/kloc.
Li Qingyuan was awarded by the imperial court at the age of 100, when he was 1 19. His name, which should have been a guest at the banquet, did not appear in the history books, which made people wonder.
As for the rumor that Li Qingyuan gave a speech at the age of 200, it is even more nonsense. According to the legendary Li Qingyuan's birth time, Li Qingyuan was 1877 when he was 200 years old, and Beiyang University Hall, the first university in China, was founded in 1895. Even if Li Qingyuan is well-connected, it is impossible to give a speech at the university in 20 years.
This is the strongest evidence that the mystery of Li Qingyuan's longevity is a scam. Is his 180 children, such a huge family was born in modern times, except for the legend related to Li Qingyuan, there is no trace, so far no one has found Li Qingyuan's descendants.
This is obviously impossible. If such a huge family really existed, it would not disappear as it does now, and the disappearance of this family just shows that the legend of Li Qingyuan is not true.
So where did the legend of Li Qingyuan come from? This has to start from the Republic of China. It is said that in 1927, a Kuomintang officer named Yang Sen visited Li Qingyuan in Kaixian County to please Chiang Kai-shek.
To prove the authenticity, the official also took a portrait of Li Qingyuan, which was clearly marked next to it: the portrait of Li Qingyun, a 250-year-old man from Kaixian County, from which the legend of Li Qingyuan came.
Coincidentally, when Mr. Jiang learned the story of Li Qingyuan from Yang Sen's mouth and wanted to invite Li Qingyuan as a guest, it was the news of Li Qingyuan's recent death. Time is so coincidental, it is inevitable that people don't think much.
Perhaps Li Qingyuan's story is just a legend made up by Yang Sen to please his boss, but even he didn't expect that this legend was actually believed by many people, and some people discussed it with great interest.
The quality of life has nothing to do with the length.
In fact, legends like Li Qingyuan are not uncommon in the history of China. Peng Zu, aged 800, Jun Chen, aged 443, and monk Zhao Hui, aged 290, are all representatives of longevity figures in the legend of China. Their existence just proves the ancient people's extreme desire for immortality.
Compared with ordinary people, the emperor's desire for longevity is more urgent. From Qin Shihuang, who struggled to find the elixir of life, to Yong Zhengdi, who pursued immortality and was keen on alchemy, it spanned more than two thousand years. In this process, the emperors' desire for immortality never waned.
In ancient times, feudal thoughts dominated, strange legends such as cultivating immortals and myths prevailed, and religion had a greater influence. Immortality was one of the main elements. Therefore, many people with superior life, on the premise of food and clothing, can't help but yearn for it, and there is a strange sight that the emperor frequently asks for immortals and asks for politics.
Nowadays, due to the popularization of scientific knowledge, most people know that immortality is not feasible, so the desire for immortality has often not been shattered before.
However, mankind's desire for eternity still exists, but now most people no longer yearn for the immortality of the body, but hope that their thoughts and spirits can be passed down for a long time.
The quality of life lies not in the length, but in the width. Compared with a long life, it is really enviable to live a life without regrets and finally face death calmly.