Peng Zu was the great-grandson of Zhuan Xu among the five ancient emperors. He experienced three dynasties: Yao and Shun, Xia and Shang, and he was 767 years old when he arrived in Zhou Wang at the end of the Shang Dynasty. According to legend, he lived for more than 800 years, and he was the one who knew the best way to keep in good health and lived the longest. His regimen was compiled into Peng Zu Classic by later generations.
Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Peng Zu is not really the oldest person in history. The reason for this misunderstanding is that there is no uniform standard for the calculation of years in ancient China. Peng Zu was born and raised in Pengshan, Sichuan, and died in Pengshan in his later years. In the countryside around Pengshan, there is a popular "small family" dating method, that is, 60 days is a year. According to Liu Jixing's research, it is found from the bamboo slips unearthed from Confucius' tomb that there is indeed a saying that 60 years is 1 year old in ancient times. According to current dating standards, Peng Zu only lived 130 years old. Historians also believe that the so-called Peng Zu is older.
Eight hundred years is actually the life span of Da Peng.
Li Qingyuan, the oldest recorded person in history, lived 257 years.
Li Qingyuan is a legend. Born in the 18th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (1679), he died in the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935) at the age of 257. Because of his extraordinary attainments and achievements in the research and practice of traditional Chinese medicine, especially in health preservation, by the time he was over 200 years old, his words and deeds still seemed to be in full bloom, so he was known as the "immortal".
Li Qingyuan was born in Yunnan, also known as Li Qingyun, and settled in Kaixian County, Sichuan in his 90s. He married 24 wives in his life and had many children.
In the Republic of China 16 (1927), at the invitation of Sichuan warlord Yang Sen, he went to Wanxian to teach the way of keeping in good health. Yang Sen invited Li Jingruo as a guest and specially made a new suit for Li. He asked the photo studio to take photos and enlarge it and display it in the window, indicating that "Wanzhou was taken in the spring of the Republic of China 16, and there were 250 men in Xiaoxiang County." Because Li couldn't tell the secret of health, he was quickly sent back to Kaixian County. In the 20th year of the Republic of China (193 1), Wanzhou Daily published another article on September 15th: "Li Qingyun, a 273-year-old man from Kaixian County, was killed by Chen Jiachang the night before.
Go to Wan and live in the garden. The old man came to Wan at the invitation of Mr. Wang ... "
When Li Qingyuan was 250 years old, his fellow countryman Liu Chengxun, a native of Kaixian County, Sichuan Province, specially interviewed him. Li Qingyuan, full of enthusiasm, made a long speech on health preservation, which not only talked about his personal health preservation practice, but also talked about the experiences and lessons of health preservation in ancient and modern times. It was recorded in detail by Mr. Liu Chengxun and compiled into the article "readme", which is still a famous health preservation work.
Liu Chengxun's interview and recollection articles were published in the sixth issue of Qigong magazine, 1986. At the same time, Li Qingyuan, the birthday girl, dictated "Eternal Life" with more than 1000 words. Some newspapers in Beijing once 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 it was confirmed by many textual researches.
In the article "readme", Li Qingyuan thinks that people's life span is long or short, which is determined by vitality. Vitality, also called vitality, is born. It originates from the kidney, hides in the abdomen, reaches the whole body through the triple energizer (upper, middle and lower energizer), and promotes the activities of all organs and tissues such as internal organs, and is the source of biochemical power.
He vividly compares caring and not caring about vitality to the place where candles are stored. A lighted candle will burn for a long time if it is placed in a cage; If it is left in the wind and rain, the time will be short or it will go out immediately. The same is true of keeping in good health.
Li Qingyuan appreciated a sentence from Laozi: "Don't worry about your appearance, don't shake your essence, and don't bother you." I have few thoughts to nourish my mind, few desires to nourish my essence, and few words to nourish my spirit. "He said that the essence of this is often ignored by mediocre people who are not good at keeping in good health. He also appreciated a remark by Lu, a scholar in Qing Dynasty: "You can live a long life if you eat rice, oil and salt, have no worries, finish official food early, have no fear or humiliation, don't owe others debts, and don't pawn, as long as you have a light meal. Li Qingyuan said, "This is really a recipe for health preservation and a good suggestion for prolonging life. If you get this, you can live forever without taking a panacea or refining an elixir. "
According to the ancient theory of health preservation, he particularly emphasized that good health preservation should be based on the four words of kindness, frugality, harmony and tranquility.
When talking about his medical care experience, Li Qingyuan said, "There is not enough food. Eating too much will hurt your stomach; You can't sleep too long. If you sleep too long, the essence will disperse. For more than 200 years, I have never overeated or slept for a long time. " "Hungry and cold, parents can't do it, aging and illness, and the wife can't do it. Only the way of self-love and self-sufficiency is the criterion and key to health. "
He also talked about matters needing attention in details of life. He pointed out that people are often impatient with trifles, which is bound to damage their health. He warned people: careless changes in temperature, walking too ill, unrestrained, and excessive indulgence are all harmful to the body, and extreme damage can lead to death. Therefore, according to the regimen of our ancestors, don't worry, be quick, watch, listen, sit and lie down; We should wear it after cooling, heat it before dissolving it, eat it after being hungry, drink it after being thirsty, and have less appetite and don't want to eat more; We should have no emotions, no emotions and no thoughts. This is the way to live a long life.
If you are a history of China, the answer is as above. If there were foreign countries, all the ancestors of Israel in Genesis of the Bible lived for hundreds of years, and their life span has not been shortened. .................................