The 120-year-old star of the Ming Dynasty, the secret of longevity is only five words, and the Qianlong Emperor followed suit and lived to 89
Longevity has always been a hot topic, birth, old age, illness and death is a natural law, but there are always people who live longer than others, and there are always people pursuing immortality, especially in ancient times. The feudal dynasty theory of gods and ghosts developed rapidly, and the people attributed the unknown things and the insoluble things to the gods and ghosts.
The ancients believed that the immortals jumped out of the reincarnation is not in the five elements, the magic is strong and lives above the nine heavens, if humans anger the gods will be punished, on the contrary, the kindness of the other party may be able to save the suffering, and the mythical story of "Chang'e Running to the Moon" has the immortal element.
The Queen Mother of the West gave her descendants an elixir of immortality, and under the wrong circumstances of the yin and yang, she was eaten by Chang'e and flew to the moon and could not return home, and everyone regretted Chang'e's fate while also envying her immortality, so the ancient emperors worked tirelessly to obtain this ability.
"Han Feizi Says Lin Shang": "And the guest sacrifices the medicine of immortality, and the subject eats and the king kills the subject, it is the dead medicine, and it is the guest who deceives the king." Qin Shi Huang's obsession with Dan medicine is well-known in Chinese history, there is a relevant record in the "Shi Huang Benji", he not only recruited alchemists from all over the country to refine medicine for himself, but also sent Xu Fu to overseas to find the Immortal Mountain, find the immortal immortal immortality of Bhutan, as the first emperor to unify the world, his pattern and ability are unparalleled, but he cannot escape the foolish idea, which shows how persistent human beings are to longevity.
In addition to Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of Han and Tang Taizong also had the same hobby, they were obsessed with taking immortal elixirs, but where there were immortal elixirs in the world, but heavy metal extracts such as lead mercury, long-term use of toxins accumulated in the body, quantitative changes caused qualitative changes, and after reaching a certain amount, they broke out and died.
The average life expectancy of the ancients due to medical level and other conditions is not high, from Qin Shi Huang to Puyi, there are 355 emperors, the average life expectancy is 41 years old, which may be why they are so obsessed with the elixir, but Qianlong lived longer until the age of 89 before he died.
He once emulated the secret of longevity left by a 120-year-old man, so let's take a look.
The Ming Dynasty historian Zheng Xiao's "Present Words" records that an old man was born in 1364 and died in 1483, living for a full 120 years, this person was named Wang Shining, witnessed the change of the ninth emperor, and when he was a teenager, he was also placed high hopes by his parents to study hard and wanted to get a meritorious name in high school, and then the name fell to Sun Shan and gave up.
When he reached the marriageable age, the elders of the family wanted to say kiss to him, but Wang Shining did not agree to go around the mountains and rivers, feudal society paid attention to filial piety and three no queens, parents were anxious and helpless, but they had no desires and no demands, and began to pursue the way of prolonging life by chance.
At that time, he was still middle-aged and supposedly said that few people pursued this age, and Wang Shining was an exception. Traversing famous mountains and rivers in search of cultivators, people who may be dusting out of the traditional concept are in the deep mountains and old forests.
Finally the emperor did not pay off, in a trip he met a centenarian, crane hair childlike health, with an otherworldly temperament, Wang Shining did not directly ask to bother, but followed the side to imitate, the old man did what he did, so that three years have passed.
Centenarians had also seen many people come to study, but they did not insist on giving up Wang Shining for a few days, so they told him the secret of longevity.
The old man said that there were only five words to live a long life, "sit still and widowed", Wang Shining also followed the way of the old man in the later days, and when asked by others, he also said that the secret was these five words. Wang Shining usually meditates quietly, eats a light diet and never eats big fish and meat, and every meal is seasonal vegetables and fruits.
At that time, even the Chenghua Emperor invited him to the palace to learn the way of longevity, and Qianlong later followed suit.
The secret of these five words is actually not easy to do, life in the world is driven by desire, the desire to eat and die, the desire to win or lose, etc. are reflected in life, a light diet is only one of them, so that it is not to be happy with things and not to be sad with oneself is the high realm, Wang Shining used this as a life creed to live to 120 years old.
Qianlong may not take Dan medicine, but also pay more attention to health, the emperor will not be pure heart, but with a modern perspective, diet light mood fluctuations do help health, do you think?
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