According to the data of the National Health Commission, the average life expectancy of Chinese residents in 2007 was 76.7 years, 77.0 years in 2018, and 77.0 years in 2019, and basically reached the expected value, and by 2020, China's average life expectancy should be greater than 77.3 years. It is not difficult to see that with the development of China's strength in all aspects, the average life expectancy of residents is steadily increasing.
From ancient times to the present, longevity has always been the pursuit of people, the most famous "longevity seeker" in history is Qin Shi Huang, basically he used the methods that could be used in those years, but we all know that people will always grow old and die, which is a natural law. According to the data, the longest-lived emperor in the history of our country was Qianlong, who lived to the age of 89, which was a miracle in terms of the medical level at that time.
But the protagonist of today's story, who lived for 256 years, is known as a "super old life star", and even the famous New York Times and Time Magazine have reported on him. He was born in the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1677 AD) and died in the twenty-second year of the Republic of China (1933 AD), this life span almost went through the entire Qing Dynasty, his name was Li Qingyuan, but why has such a "super life star" been questioned?
Li Qingyuan, an ordinary citizen born in the Kangxi Dynasty, because there were people who were proficient in Traditional Chinese medicine in his ancestors, so Li Qingyuan also became a chinese medicine scholar when he grew up, usually relying on selling herbs for a living, but as he grew older, everyone looked at him and felt more and more strange - how old Li did not see old age?
Around the time of Jiaqing, Li Qingyuan was nearly 150 years old, although his hair had fallen out, his teeth were still very good, his skin was smooth and his face was rosy, which was simply unbelievable, and for a time the local people regarded him as a "god" and often went to the door to ask for the method of "immortality".
Old Li is also polite, he told everyone his usual habits and places of attention, nothing more than "kindness, frugality, harmony, quiet" 4 words as the basis, less temper tantrums, less anger, more eat light things, these are probably personally known, everyone always feels that Old Li has something to hide.
Because Old Li really lived too long, so he married 24 wives in his lifetime, his children and grandchildren have long exceeded a hundred, poor he is always white-haired people send black-haired people, but he is powerless, think that such a long life is not necessarily a good thing.
So the question is, such a well-known old life star, old Chinese medicine, is absolutely known by many people, and the stories about him are even more innumerable, but does he really exist?
The first point of doubt: Many reports indicate that Li Qingyuan often went to the university to lecture at the age of 200. The earliest university in China was "Beiyang University", founded in 1895, li Qingyuan was 200 years old in 1877, not even a university, where can he lecture at the "university"?
The second point of doubt: Li Qingyuan has more than 100 descendants, why has not a single descendant appeared so far? If our family has a super old birthday star in more than 200 years, don't rush out to prove it?
The third point of doubt: during the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, there were 4 "Thousand Sorcerer Banquets", inviting the elderly over 65 years old (later changed to 70 years old) to gather together to discuss the law of longevity and thank the Emperor for his kindness, but the name "Li Qingyuan" never appeared in the list of the Thousand Sorrows Banquet.
Even if Li Qingyuan did not want to participate, it was understandable, but why was such a super birthday star not recorded in various historical materials? Would an emperor who so pursues longevity forget his existence?
But it is strange to say that the "Wanzhou Daily" of the 20th year of the Republic of China published a photo of him and recorded what he did at that time. Do readers and friends think that Li Qingyuan, who has lived for 256 years, really exists?