Immortality has always been people's unremitting pursuit, in order to be able to achieve this goal many people have also been working hard, from the ancient emperors to the current scientists have been constantly trying some new methods, but so far we have not completely cracked the secret of life. However, according to the records of the history books, there have also been many long-lived old people in history, for example, in the history of the pre-Qin Dynasty, there was such an old man, who lived for more than 800 years and married 49 wives, and this person was Peng Zu. However, his history only appears in some legends, and there is no clear record in the main history, nor has it left a written record, so many people do not particularly believe in this. So who is the person who really has a clear record of the longest life in the canonical history?
The longest-lived person in the real written history is a man from Yongtai in Fujian Province, Chen Jun, who also lived for a very long time, living a total of 443 years, from the time of China's Tang Dynasty to the Time of the Yuan Dynasty. What is even more surprising is that in his old age, there was a phenomenon of rejuvenation, and his history is clearly recorded in their local county records during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
According to records, Chen Jun is not a local, he was originally a traveling doctor who walked the rivers and lakes, because he passed by here and found that the scenery here is very good and the people are also very simple, so he wants to settle here. When he settled here, he has been using his medical skills to save lives and help the injured, and many locals have cured diseases, so he also has a very high prestige in the local area. It is precisely because he has done these good things that the locals are very grateful to him, and when he reaches old age and has no way to take care of himself, the local villagers are willing to support him without asking for anything in return, which is one of the reasons why he can live a long life. But as time passed, the people who began to support him had gradually passed away as they grew older, and he still showed no signs of aging.
Surprisingly, Chen Jun not only did not age, but also underwent some very magical changes in his body. For example, what surprises everyone is that his muscles began to atrophy, his body became smaller and smaller, and by the time he was 400 years old, his body weight was less than ten pounds, and he looked like a child, which was like the legendary "rejuvenation". In order to be able to take better care of her, the local villagers put him in a vegetable basket and brought him to the field when they worked in the field, so that they could feed him at any time. In this way, he survived until the Yuan Dynasty, and finally he even became a baby, not only crying but also needing local villagers to feed him with milk.
Chen Jun's changes also made the local people regard him as a god-like figure, and because he also did a lot of good things before he died, this made his story spread more widely in the local area. There are even many ordinary people who think that he was touched by the heavens because he helped people to cure diseases, and eventually returned to his old age and became a fairy. Therefore, the local people also specially built a temple for him to worship him as a god. And the story about him has been passed down from generation to generation in the local word of mouth.
In order to let more posterity know his deeds, the locals carved his longevity story on a wooden plaque, which was preserved from the Yuan Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, but was later destroyed due to war. However, although the wooden plaque was destroyed, his story is still widely circulated in the folk and recorded in the county records. However, although there are written records, there are still many people who are skeptical about the fact that he lived to be 443 years old, because our understanding of him is only through folklore and county records, and no other physical evidence has been found, so there is no way to verify the authenticity of this matter.