Before Death, Men Aged 256 Years Share Secrets

The average human being to live between 70-80 years. Suppose there that can live more than 100 years, only a few people. Especially at this time, many people who do not care about the food they consume.

Though the food is an important factor, for human life. Lots of eating foods that are not good, it will increase the variety of diseases, which ultimately makes the approaching death.

But you know, if there are people in this modern age is able to live over 200 years? Who is he and where it comes from? Here's his review for you.

 Is a man named Li Ching Yuen, who mempu lived to the age of 256 years. According to an article in the New York Times in 1930, Wu Chung-chieh, a professor from the University of Chengdu, finding a record of the Chinese government.

There are as many as 1,827 of congratulations to Li Ching-Yuen on the anniversary of his 150th and documents further revealed there congratulated him on the day he repeated his 200th in 1877. In 1928, a New York Times correspondent wrote that, a lot of old people in the neighborhood Li asserted that, grandfather they know about the life of Li to a long life.

Li Ching Yuen himself reportedly started his career as a herbalist at the age of 10, where he gathered various kinds of herbs in the mountains and learn. For nearly 40 years, he was just taking herbs such as Lingzhi, goji berry, wild ginseng, gotu kola and rice wine.

In 1749, at age 71, he joined the Chinese army as a teacher of martial arts. Li said as much-loved figure in the community, even he was married 23 times and fathered more than 200 children.

According to a story in the province Li lived, he was able to read and write as a child, and at the age of ten had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria only to gather various herbs.

During the first hundred years he continued to do this work. Then he turned into a seller of herbs collected by others. He sold lingzhi, goji berry, wild ginseng, gotu kola and other Chinese herbs, as well as live only to consume these plants and rice wine.

Secret of longevity and healthy Li

Li was once asked what the secret to longevity. This is the answer: "Keep your heart to calm down, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog." It is a word of advice from Li given to Wu Pei-fu, the warlord, to learn the secret of extremely long life.

But it would be difficult to follow Li nowadays, especially we often eat fatty foods, sugary, and who had genetic modification.