In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, tyranny continued, Chen Sheng and others rose up, after several years of evolution, the rebel army led by Xiang Yu, Liu Bang and others gradually expanded, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang defeated Xiang Yu and established the weiwei Han Dynasty. Under Liu Bang's command, famous generals such as Ruyun, Han Xin, Zhang Liang, Xiao He and others were known as the Three Masters of the Han Dynasty. But there is a person named Zhang Cang, who is not as well-known as the "Three Jies", this person is the most learned person around Liu Bang, who later served as the prime minister and lived for 103 years. Zhang Cang contributed greatly to the Han Dynasty and even to later generations, but his longevity secret was disgraceful.
Zhang Cang, born in the Warring States period, is tall and talented, and can obviously eat by the face, but he still has strength. Zhang Cang read a wide range of books, and had further education in Confucianism, law, music law, arithmetic, calendar, etc., and was known as the most learned person around Liu Bang. To give two examples: First, Xun Zi, a Confucian tycoon of the Warring States, was Zhang Cang's tutor. Second, Li Si, the chancellor of Qin Shi Huang, and Han Feizi, the representative of the Fa family, were both brothers of Zhang Cang.com. Qin Shi Huang also admired Zhang Cang very much and made him a royal historian.
After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II continued his tyranny and finally could not control the situation, and the world was in chaos. Liu Bang, the governor of Pei County, rebelled against Qin under the support of a group of brothers, and when Liu Bang's army passed through Wuyang (Former Yang, Henan), Zhang Cang felt that Liu Bang's figure must have great achievements, so he abandoned the official position of the Qin Dynasty and followed Liu Bang. There is no doubt that Zhang Cang looks at people very accurately.
Although Zhang Cang is a university inquirer, in Liu Bang's eyes, his value is not great, so Liu Bang does not attach too much importance to Zhang Cang. During the attack on Nanyang, Zhang Cang led a small group of soldiers to violate military orders, Liu Bang had already begun to implement strict military discipline at that time, Zhang Cang just bumped into the limelight, Liu Bang was furious, and asked Wang Ling to try Zhang Cang. After Wang Ling's interrogation, zhang Cang was sentenced to be beheaded.
When the executioner stripped Zhang Cang's shirt and pressed it on the ground to prepare for the waist chop, the sun shone down, Zhang Cang's snow-white back was exceptionally bright under the sun's illumination, "the ridge was as white as snow", coupled with Zhang Cang's handsome appearance, Wang Ling felt that Zhang Cang was probably a talent, so he retried and pardoned Zhang Cang. Zhang Cang was grateful to Shu Zero and took Wang Ling as his father from then on.
Zhang Cang followed Liu Bang and others, doing things carefully and cautiously, and received many awards. After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, Xiao He served as a chancellor, Xiao He did not understand the calendar and liturgical music, so he invited Zhang Cang to be responsible, and Zhang Cang carefully formulated the calendar and was used by the Han Dynasty and even later generations. After Emperor Wen of Han succeeded to the throne, Zhang Cang was already dying of old age, and after the death of The Infant Ofe, Zhang Cang served as the Chancellor.
Zhang Cang is highly educated, and many people admire him very much, so he has a special number of students, the most famous of which is Jia Yi, who wrote "On Passing the Qin". Being able to cultivate such an apprentice, you can also see that Zhang Cang is indeed knowledgeable. When Zhang Cang was 90 years old, because of his old age, his teeth were lost and his speech was not clear, he resigned from the position of minister.
Please enter a picture to describe Zhang Cang living to the age of 103, he is very good at health, but Zhang Cang's longevity secret, but it has been criticized. The Chronicle of History records:
After the release of the cang, old, toothless in the mouth, feeding on milk, the woman is a nursing mother. The number of wives and concubines is in the hundreds, and those who taste pregnancy are not lucky. He died at more than a hundred years old.
Zhang Cang married 100 concubines who took the throne during his tenure as chancellor, and after these concubines became pregnant and gave birth to children, he did not care whether the child was dead or alive, and asked the concubines to give him all the breast milk to eat, taking eating human milk as the secret of longevity, so the way of "health maintenance" was really difficult to accept. No wonder some scholars will say: Although there is merit, Zhang Cang's longevity secret is never advocated!
Most of the ancients lived long, and Zhang Cang was a celebrity who had both achievements and longevity. There is a saying called: "The light of Taiding, life is like Zhang Cang", which shows the fame of Zhang Cang's longevity. What do you think of Zhang Cang after you know the secret of his longevity?