The common traits of long-lived seniors are related to genetics, mentality, lifestyle, and more.
My 90-year-old wife is still in good health, and my neighbor's grandmother, 93, who is also alive, recently fell and collapsed in bed and needed to be cared for by her children. The two old men have some of the same and different characteristics:
Independent, smart and strong
Let's talk about my wife first, my grandfather died when he was 30 years old, and she raised 5 children by herself, which is very hard in the countryside!
In the past, cattle were used to cultivate the land in rural areas, and each person had to raise a cow at home, and the task of herding cattle every day was handed over to his children. My mother is the eldest, and she helps to take care of her uncle and has to cook and cook clothes, which is very hard, because there is no male owner in the family, so she takes care of the family chores early.
My wife is the busiest when she is busy with farming, and she has to ask people from the village to help with the fields, and she has to go to other houses to help, because you help others, and others will come to help you. The wife's family has a serious shortage of labor, so she works very hard, fast and meticulously, and has a good reputation in the village.
Because his wife is a woman in charge, some people in the village bully the weak and fear the strong, picking soft persimmons and pinching them. Once, when the water was released from the canal, the water had to pass through another man's field before it could reach his wife's house, but when he arrived in the man's field, he did not agree, and blocked the ditch and road in his own field, so that no water could drip or flow down.
The wife came to the door to quarrel with someone, and the whole family went into battle, scolding and scolding, and even wanted to beat someone, but felt that a woman couldn't turn the sky.
The wife was not convinced, went to the village committee, stayed in it for a few hours, and they did not solve it for her, so she lay at the door of the village committee, crying and shouting, and the movement was very loud. In the end, there was no way, and the village secretary helped her solve it on the same day.
Mrs. has a bad temper, has little patience with the child, speaks very impulsively, and if someone in the family is naughty, she must serve with a stick and beat her well.
She is also very domineering to outsiders, if someone dares to provoke her, she will quarrel with others for a day, and she never admits defeat.
Because she knows that if she is weak, she will be bullied!
My neighbor's grandmother, who heard from others, also died in middle age, and later found an old grandfather with a retirement salary and lived with them for 20 years.
She is kind and very talkative, she is very good to her granddaughters, she keeps anything delicious for them, and she is rarely heard of arguing with people, which is different from my wife.
industrious
In fact, the elderly over the age of 70 do not have to do anything, receive a pension to live. But my wife farmed until she was 85 years old, throwing seedlings, removing weeds, fertilizing and harvesting all by herself.
She wants to eat the food she grows, she doesn't like to cause trouble to her children, and she will never ask others for help if she can.
I usually grow my own vegetables, never buy vegetables all year round, and raise dozens of chickens, ducks and geese, keep a little for myself, and give the rest to my uncle's family.
She is particularly thin and bright-eyed, a bright-eyed, energetic, old and strong, and without losing her demeanor.
My neighbor's grandmother went back to her son's house three years ago, and she used to live with her grandfather, and she didn't do anything, but she was enjoying happiness. I only do laundry and cooking every day. This is different from my wife.
Rich
The wife will earn money, have a little money in her hands, give her great-grandson New Year's money during the New Year's holidays, and she will also give her son, daughter or her siblings a happy event.
She would pick up bottles and cans on the side of the road, or fallen steel, and sell them at scrapyards.
She picks honeysuckle, and every time the honeysuckle is in full bloom, she carries a bag in the morning, takes a straw hat and picks honeysuckle all the way along the side of the road, every day. She put the honeysuckle to dry in the sun, steamed it dry, and sold it.
She picks wild chrysanthemums, and in autumn the fields are full of wild chrysanthemums, and she carries a bag and picks the flowers quickly, and after drying them, she sells them.
She's like this every year, sometimes you go to her house and you don't see her at all, she's either in the field, or in the garden, or somewhere.
The neighbor's grandmother, she doesn't make money, it's all the grandfather who gives her money to spend, and after the grandfather collapsed on the bed and was picked up by his own children, she also went back to her son's house.
But I heard that she was not doing well, she didn't eat with her son and daughter-in-law, she needed to make her own meals, and when there was no rice at home, she asked her son for rice, and her son didn't help move it, and she couldn't move it, so she was so anxious that she burst into tears.
She gave all the private money she saved to her son, but she couldn't get any warmth from her son.
Health
She soaks her feet in hot water every night, and she says that these can improve sleep, relieve fatigue, and delay aging.
Every day when it gets dark, she goes to bed and lies down, there is a small radio next to the bed, and she only listens to the Chinese medicine health channel. Once she heard that eating peanuts can cause indigestion, elevated blood lipids and obesity, she stopped eating peanuts, which she used to love.
She has been controlling her weight and not letting herself get fat, for example, she tastes fat shallowly and never eats too much. For other meats, she also eats a slice occasionally, eat more vegetables, and she will have a lot of meat left over throughout the year. She heard the doctor say that old age should be thin and not fat, so she took it to heart.
The neighbor's grandmother is different, she is rich and fat, round and round, she has what to eat, and she is not taboo. It's not the same at all.
I summarized my wife's longevity, one is strong and independent, the second is a good attitude, the third is to pay attention to health, and the fourth is to be industrious
The longevity of my neighbor's grandmother is inherited from the family and has a good attitude
Writing this, I feel that no matter what happens to me now, it is not a big deal, and it is not a big deal compared to life and death. It is not easy for the old man to live to this age, and I hope that the children will be filial and let them spend their old age in peace.
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