An old man who used to be a soldier died at the age of 106, spanning several generations for a whole century, witnessing the various stages of the development of the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China and the founding of New China.
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106 years old is a challenge and a miracle for human beings. There are not many in the field of Chinese medicine. Historically, Sun Simiao was known as the King of Medicine. Legend has it that he is 104 years old, and some people say that he is 128 years old, but they are all legends. In modern history, there are not many elderly people over 100 years old. Although old Chinese medicine practitioners live a long life, there are only a few who can exceed 100 years old. In the past, Professor Shao Jingming, an acupuncture master, was 0/02 years old, and Yang Youhe, an internal medicine expert, was 0/00 years old. There were not many others.
What factors determine a person's life span? For years, people have been exploring ways to live longer. In order to live a long life, Qin Shihuang specially sent people across the sea to Penglai to find the elixir of life. Sun Wu secretly ate flat peaches and pills from the old gentleman in the palace, and Friar Sand in the Monkey King also ate ginseng fruit from the Taoist temple. There have been many myths and stories in history that pursue longevity.
The first factor is mainly heredity. People who live long generally have a family history. Looking back, we find that many long-lived old people often live under the same roof for generations. Their families can often be traced back to the elderly. This is a special phenomenon, which shows that genes are the core factor of life continuation.
The second is the living environment. There is no doubt that the living environment has an impact on human beings. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, the people of China have become rich, China has become stronger, its material culture has been greatly enriched, and the average life expectancy of the people of China has been continuously improved. What caused this fact? It is a stable and United social environment, a rapidly developing economy, a rich material and cultural life, and a healthy pursuit and guarantee.
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Without such an environment, you can't live long if you are still living in 1942 or the wartime when imperialism invaded China.
In fact, this is the result of the interaction of internal and external factors. Of course, in other cases, some special accidents will happen. For example, the premature death of young people, accidents such as car accidents and natural disasters, and so on. But in general, longevity is the result of the interaction of internal genes and external environment.
Then Chinese medicine and western medicine often involve in the discussion about life span. Generally speaking, we believe that people who engage in Chinese medicine live longer, and Chinese medicine has a long life in history. On the one hand, it is related to the health care consciousness of Chinese medicine itself; On the other hand, it is also related to the fact that most Chinese medicine practitioners are intellectuals and are good at self-cultivation. Generally speaking, doctors, especially highly respected doctors, are mostly people with long life, which is exactly what the ancients said.
However, some people put forward some strange ideas and gave strange examples. It is said that the average life expectancy of the ancients was only 30 to 40 years under the protection of Chinese medicine. Now our society has a new guarantee, advocating western learning, and the average life expectancy is constantly improving. So I want to prove that western medicine is better than Chinese medicine, and attack or destroy the confidence of Chinese medicine.
In essence, this is a complete misunderstanding and misinterpretation of traditional Chinese medicine, and it is a kind of logical confusion that thinks it is smart.
The environment plays a great role in the longevity. As mentioned above, people's life span is determined by genes and environment, not simply adjusted by medical methods. We used to live in the old society. Although there was Chinese medicine, not everyone had the guarantee of seeing a doctor and taking medicine, and the polarization between the rich and the poor was serious. Although it has the function of traditional Chinese medicine, it only plays a role in maintaining life and death. In the old society, the lack of material and cultural life, the increase of labor intensity, and wars and infectious diseases have seriously affected people's life expectancy, even though they have longevity genes. In the past, maternal and child health care was out of the question without birth control measures. A woman is born a child-bearing machine, and she has to have many children in her life. In this process, many minors died prematurely and women died, greatly reducing the average life expectancy. Under such circumstances, any medicine is useless, even if western medicine experts take it in that society, there is nothing they can do.
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The reason why our society can live longer and healthier. On the one hand, it is related to the improvement of medical care level, the decline of average mortality rate, the improvement of maternal and child health care prevention system and the improvement of various medical security systems, which is a very good role. But medical care is only one of the basic conditions. There are many other factors, such as abundant materials, grain production, industrial labor force, stable social and economic development and reduced labor intensity. Especially now in a peaceful development environment, paving the way for human health and longevity. In some African countries or Syria, although they are guaranteed by western medicine services, their life in a war-torn environment is not well guaranteed, not to mention improving their average life expectancy.
In fact, Chinese medicine is an extremely important means of health care and rehabilitation, which has always played a positive role in maintaining a healthy life of the human body. On the one hand, it comes from thought, advocates the unity of heaven and man, advocates the law of harmony between man and nature, respects one's own desires and instincts, correctly treats the gains and losses of life, and develops a good attitude. These are the main points of longevity. Second, Chinese medicine itself is a good technology. Medicine itself has the ability of disease resistance, prevention and health care, which can make people get old easily. Especially the idea of disease prevention, can effectively enhance people's health awareness. In today's harmonious society, we should strengthen the role of Chinese medicine in people's health protection, advocate Chinese medicine, and develop Chinese medicine is the correct way to win the hearts of the people. The national policy of paying equal attention to Chinese and western medicine cannot be implemented without heart.