Thursday, November 3, 2011
Legend of Chung Li Yun - The man who lived 256 years
"Keep your heart to stay calm, sit like a tortoise, walk cheerfully as doves and sleep like a dog." That sentence advice given by Li Chung Yun when a chief named Wu Pu Fei was invited to the house and asked the secret of longevity. Li Chung Yun died on May 6, 1933. It was 256 years old.
Mr. Li lives in Sichuan province in China where symbolizes the greatness of a person's longevity. At the age of 10 years, he has traveled to Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria to collect medicinal plants. He continued to collect medicinal plants of up to 100 years old.
Some sources say that Mr.Li have buried 23 wives and at the time of his death he lived with his wife to 24. From the 24 th his wife, Li has children and grandchildren up to 11 generations and numbering about 200 people. He has long nails about 6 inches. Although he was already 200 years more, but in view of the people he looked like someone who is 60 years old.
According to Mr. Li, he was born in 1736. But in 1930, a professor of university education departments of Chengdu are named Wu Chung Chieh find a record of the Chinese empire congratulating Li Ching Yun for birthday-150 years. Congratulations were given in 1827. When in 1827 he repeated the year to 150, then it means royal records show that Mr.. Li was born in 1677 and when he died in 1933, he was 256 years old.
At the time of his death, words of sorrow for Mr.Li published by the world's leading media, including The New York Times and the Times Magazine.
Whether Li was born in 1677 or 1736 as his confession? When he was born in 1736 according to his confession, it means that he died at age 197 years, far longer than the oldest person on record is Jeanne Louise Calment of France who died in 1997 at age 122 years 164 days. Previously, China has also been recorded in the presence of a man named Chen Jun who believed died at the age of 443 years.
During his lifetime, Mr. Li is known as an herbalist, and kung fu expert. In the year 1749 when he was 71 years old, he moved to the city of Kai Xian to join forces with China as a martial arts coach and advisor to the military.
Her story then flows like a story of martial arts films we watch. One of his disciples Mr. Li, Tai Chi Master is called Da Liu told this story. At the time Mr. Li 130 years old, he met a hermit in a mountain which is then taught Jiulong Baguazhang (nine dragons eight diagrams palm of the hand) and Qigong (energy in) with a special breathing instructions, movements and how to coordinate with specific sounds as well as food recommendations. Da Liu said that Mr.Li can have a long life because he regularly perform these exercises every day, regularly, correctly and sincerely for 120 years. Until now, the Jiulong Baguazhang practitioners recognize that modern knowledge they gained came directly from Mr. Li.
In 1933, he died. Mr. Li once told a friend, "I have completed all the things that must be resolved in this world, now I'm going home." Li Chung Yun died not long after that. And since it comes the legend of Li Chung Yun, a man who lived 256 years