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 article was 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.