There are many legends about long-lived old people in Chinese history, such as Peng Zu, who lived to eight hundred, Zhang Sanfeng, who had many magical legends from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and even Chen Zhuo's ancestor who lived in seclusion in Mount Hua, etc., but although these people were still nominally human, they basically became legends, and they can be regarded as immortals, but there was a long-lived old man with a very high degree of credibility during the Qing Dynasty: Li Qingyuan.
Li Qingyuan also has another name called Li Qingyun, a total of 256 years old, born in 1677 when Kangxi was still pro-government, that year is the sixteenth year of Kangxi, the Kangxi Emperor was only 23 years old, it is the time when ambitions want to achieve great things, and then the Kangxi Emperor died of old age, his sons, grandsons, great-grandchildren, and grandchildren also died, the Qing Dynasty died for 20 years, Li Qingyuan is still alive.
The so-called Imperial Chart Hegemony, Emperor Jiangshan, in Li Qingyuan's eyes, is completely cloud smoke, he only cares about letting himself live well, and in his daily life, he always adheres to Lao Tzu's teachings in the Tao Te Ching: "No labor Ru shape, no shaking Ru Jing, no Ru Si lingering (winding). Widowhood of thought to nourish the spirit, widowhood to nourish the spirit, widowhood to nourish the qi. ”
This passage in the "Tao Te Ching" is the health care purpose that Li Qingyuan has been following since he was a young man, that is to say, for the good maintenance of essence, qi, and god, he will not carry out too intense labor, so that his body's essence will be damaged, and he will not think about it all day long, always thinking about all kinds of troublesome things, resulting in damage to his spirit.
Reducing thinking and worrying to maintain one's own spirit, reducing one's own appetite to maintain one's own essence, reducing one's own language to maintain one's own aura, Li Qingyuan believes that he has done a good job in these three aspects, so that he can live so long, he summed up this passage in the Tao Te Ching into 4 words, that is: kindness, frugality, harmony, and quietness.
Kindness is kindness and kindness, the heart will not want to harm people, naturally there will not be too much trouble in the heart; thrift is to be frugal in material terms, will not live that kind of drunken life, crushed by heavy material desires, their own minds are not seduced by desire; and is always maintaining a faint pleasure in the heart, will not be easily angry and angry, and will not lose their spirit; quiet is to let their minds calm down, eating and living in accordance with the natural laws between heaven and earth.
Specifically, it is to follow the key of "sitting like a turtle, walking like a bird, sleeping like a dog" between daily food, clothing, and housing, which is also Li Qingyuan's own observation in life, and summed up, sitting like a turtle will not easily move, walking like a bird and bird as light, sleeping like a dog will be completely immersed in the mind.
It is precisely because of Li Qingyuan's various achievements in health care that he was invited to give a lecture to the Sichuan warlord Yang Sen in 1927, and this matter also appeared in the newspaper as a sensation, not only in China, but also in many western countries, there are also many reporters in Western countries who have interviewed and reported on Li Qingyuan, and Western journalists have conducted in-depth investigations in Li Qingyuan's hometown and found that this long-lived old man had 24 wives and nearly two hundred descendants.
And Li Qingyuan did not divorce in the middle, mainly because his former wife was "left behind" on the road of life, he was helpless to remarry, this strange man anecdote was also widely spread in the West at that time, Li Qingyuan died in 1933, since his most legendary longevity is more than 130 years old, of course, with the development of science and technology, people's average life expectancy may be able to reach 250 years old.