Mr. Zhou Youguang is a famous Chinese linguist, and the "Basic Rules of Chinese Pinyin Orthography" was formulated by him, and he is known as the "father of Chinese Pinyin".
Zhou Youguang has made great contributions in the field of mainland language and culture, he has experienced the late Qing Dynasty, Beiyang, the Republic of China, witnessed the founding of New China, and has become a model figure in the health care industry at the age of 112.
When it comes to longevity, Mr. Zhou summed up five sentences, what kind of health secrets do these words contain?
"Longevity star" Zhou Youguang
Zhou Youguang is a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu, is a very learned old gentleman, in the first half of his life, not only in pinyin literature has great attainments, but also in the field of economics has made outstanding achievements.
In 1949, Zhou Youguang also served as a professor at the Institute of Economic Research of Fudan University, and with his knowledge of economics, he worked part-time at the Xinhua Bank in Shanghai and the People's Bank of China, helping the banks solve many problems.
When Zhou Youguang was about to retire, he shifted his focus to language research, and after retirement, he devoted all his energy to language research.
As the saying goes, after the age of 85, Zhou Youguang carried out in-depth research on cultural studies, and after years of study and research, he also made many achievements in cultural studies.
At this time, Zhou Youguang was already 90 years old, but he still insisted on publishing various papers, it can be said that Mr. Zhou at this time was only old, but the actual psychological age remained very young.
On January 14, 2017, Mr. Zhou Youguang left us forever, and his age was forever fixed at the age of 112.
Keep your diet light and don't be superstitious about supplements
Mr. Zhou's first secret of longevity is to maintain a light diet all year round, and to take supplements from superstition, Mr. Zhou is very self-disciplined in terms of diet.
He eats on time every day, has a very regular meal time, and does not eat and drink, he pays great attention to the combination of diet, most of the time he mainly eats light food, and rarely eats meat and greasy food.
When Mr. Zhou talked about his eating habits with others, he often said that he mainly ate vegetables, milk and eggs as the staple food on weekdays, and would eat an egg every day or drink a bowl of egg custard.
Of course, Mr. Zhou also eats meat, but when he eats meat, he will control the amount of food, which also makes him still able to have a very good appetite in his later years.
This is also the reason why Mr. Zhou can still have a very tough body even in his old age, and Mr. Zhou has never believed in supplements or anything.
According to Mr. Zhou's description, he never eats supplements sent by his children or relatives and friends, and he does not smoke or drink alcohol in his daily life, and follows the eating habit of three meals a day every day.
On the other hand, contemporary young people, they often eat two meals a day, and even some only eat one meal, most of them do not have the habit of eating breakfast, and usually always like to eat and drink, and carry out "bombardment" on their stomachs for a long time.
Some young people, when they are not feeling well, will superstitiously buy some high-priced health care products, they think that they can cure themselves, but if they want to fundamentally solve the problem, they still need to adjust their diet.
When you have a stable eating time, skip three meals a day, and reduce the frequency of going out to eat and drink, the physical discomfort will naturally disappear.
The simpler life you have, the better!
Zhou Lao had a regular routine in his later years, summing up the experience of longevity that would be as simple as possible, in fact, the ancients had already given a conclusion, there is a famous saying "the road is simple, go with the flow".
Zhou Lao, who is 112 years old, has been adhering to this concept all his life, he is a person who pays great attention to simplicity, whenever someone talks to him about what kind of health regimen.
He expressed his thoughts in just four words, simple and natural! Four words that seem so easy are something that many people can't understand in their lifetime.
Zhou Lao basically only does four things in a day, sleeping, eating, reading, and writing, and he follows them day after day, year after year, these seemingly ordinary daily routines.
Mr. Zhou also formulated a life code for himself, which makes ordinary people seem a little incomprehensible, Zhou Lao implements the "three noes" in life, but birthdays, no wills, and no holidays.
Zhou Lao explained that the reason for not making a will is to ensure that family members live in harmony and live happily, but his birthday is because he is getting older and wants to forget his age and live happily in the present.
However, the festival is very in line with Zhou Lao's character, because Zhou Lao's life follows a simple life.
Nowadays, many young people often choose to be extravagant and wasteful in order to celebrate a so-called birthday, invite many friends to eat and drink together, and finally make it very cumbersome, and they can't toss themselves around on their birthday.
In life, we should make life simpler and remove some meaningless things with "renunciation".
Zhou Lao's life has brought the "renunciation" into full play, and has reached the supreme realm.
All diseases are born of anger, don't be angry
In daily life, we will always encounter unnatural troubles, and some unhappy things will happen, and many people will get angry or angry, which will harm our physical health.
In fact, this is a very simple thing, when many people are in trouble, they are usually "carried away" by anger, and finally let themselves hold their stomachs, and in the end it is we who are hurt.
Zhou Lao came to such a conclusion, the heart of the person can live a long life, this sentence tells us that no matter what we encounter, we must face it calmly, anger does not solve the problem, we should not be angry as a common sense.
Mr. Zhou vividly interpreted the sentence "suddenly come without being surprised, and without reason without anger", and he really applied this sentence to life.
In fact, when we figure it out, there is nothing to worry about when we look down on things, and when we encounter unhappy things in our lives, we can calmly face them and smile them.
Keep thinking and accept new things
As mentioned above, Zhou Lao will adhere to the good habit of writing every day, and his mind has been constantly accepting new knowledge, Zhou Lao only came into contact with cultural studies at the age of 85, and after long-term contact with research.
At the age of 90, Zhou Lao can still create many times and publish various research papers, Zhou Lao has been accepting new things all his life, and letting his brain keep thinking.
As early as when Zhou Lao was young, he has always adhered to the idea of keeping thinking and accepting new things, and when he was in school, the teachers in the class basically taught in dialects, and few teachers taught in Chinese.
At this time, a teacher broke this inherent habit and often used vernacular to teach in class, and after Zhou Youguang came into contact with this unique teaching method, he was deeply inspired to start his path of advocating Chinese.
Not only that, Zhou Lao also learned to use a typewriter to write in his later years, and after Zhou Lao learned to use a typewriter, he also promoted it to his friends to explain the convenience of typewriters.
Zhou Lao also taught his wife how to use the typewriter, and his wife typed three words "dear" after learning it, I have to say that Zhou Lao is still a very romantic person!
This shows Zhou Lao's idea of accepting new things, he did not uphold the old thoughts, but had the idea of longing and accepting, which is not difficult to see that Zhou Lai still maintained the idea of learning in his later years.
On the other hand, today's young people, when they have learned some knowledge or technology, they stop moving forward and think that they are enough to cope with life, so their brains stop thinking and are unwilling to accept the emergence of new things.
We should "live and learn" so that our brains will always think, so that we will not be out of touch with society.
Family harmony can lead to a happy life
Family harmony can make life happier, Mr. Zhou has carried out this idea throughout his life, and he and his wife Zhang Yun can be described as a very loving "model couple".
The two have taken care of each other all their lives, and run the whole family with a harmonious mode of getting along, which makes their children have always received such ideological education.
After the children of the two grew up, they have always maintained the mode of getting along with their parents, and they have run their respective small homes very happily and warmly.
Zhou Lao usually has the habit of drinking coffee, but his wife prefers to drink tea, but despite this, the two will still sit together and drink, although the things they drink are different, but the two will still raise their respective cups, and all the words are displayed in their eyes at this moment.
The husband and wife are a harbor that relies on each other in life, and when the two live a good life happily, longevity will naturally "come to the door".
No one in life is smooth sailing, in life we must know that suffering losses is a blessing, suffering losses is not a big deal, and we must always maintain a state of mind that is not angry, so that we can have a long life!