For today's human beings, living to a hundred years old is even a long life. But during the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Chen Jun who lived for more than four hundred years. Many people may think that this is a blind fabrication, but there is indeed such a person in the history books, legend has it that he was born in the Tang Dynasty, and finally died in the Yuan Dynasty, and there are even rumors that he lived smaller and smaller behind him, until he finally died and weighed only five pounds.
First of all, let's look at what is recorded in the canonical history, which says that he was born in 881 AD and died in 1324 AD. The time before and after this adds up is exactly 443 years, during which he also experienced the Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Song, Yuan, it can be said that he is a witness to several dynasties, because of his longevity himself is also worshipped as a divine treasure by the villagers.
After understanding this, we can analyze whether this person has really lived for so long. In fact, as far as the editor is concerned, I think this is somewhat impossible. And there are several reasons why it is impossible. The first point is that he could not have lived so long in the change of dynasties. As we all know, the five dynasties and ten kingdoms after the Tang Dynasty were very chaotic, and various regimes were independent one after another, and the same was true during the Song Dynasty, so it can be said that in these hundreds of years, the Central Plains were fighting wars everywhere, and it was the common people who suffered from the wars, and how Chen Jun could not survive in the era of swords and soldiers even if he lived for a long time, this point of view is very unreasonable.
The second is that a person's life expectancy cannot be so long, and it is still in ancient times. The life expectancy of ancient times is generally only 50 years old, because the living conditions in ancient times, medical and health care are very poor, often outbreaks of plague and other diseases, or famine or whatever, even if the princes and nobles have a better living environment, they often die a lot early, not to mention Chen Jun, a commoner.
Third, from the analysis of historical records, the history books say that it is because Chen Jun's hometown has a magical hot spring, and Chen Jun has been soaking in hot springs since he was a child. This look is very absurd, this hot spring can not be known only to him, others have not soaked, if it is really so magical, then why is he alone in longevity. The second reason need not be elaborated, is a myth and legend, saying that Chen Jun accidentally ticked his own name in the book of life and death, then is this not Sun Monkey? Therefore, combined with the above points, Chen Jun cannot live so long, even now. Some people may say that what is recorded in the canonical history is still wrong? In fact, what is recorded in the history is not necessarily true, we study and explore a period of history, we can not just blindly stare at a history book, we need to compare in many ways, more thinking. Only in this way can we discover the historical truth.