What does "longevity" mean?

Longevity means long life. People can progress endlessly, and they are very malleable and transformable.

How old is a person when they live a long life? According to ancient records, a person's natural lifespan (the year of heaven) should be more than a hundred years old. Ming Zhang Jiebin, "Class Classic - Volume I - Regimen Class I" note: "Hundred years old, the probability of heavenly life." The common saying "after a hundred years" refers to death.

In China's traditional culture, some interesting longevity name is little known. Xishou: seventy-seven years old, because the cursive script of "Xie" is similar to the vertical "seventy-seven," so it is called. Mishou: eighty-eight years old, because the word "rice" is split into just the number "eighty-eight" so called. Bai Shou: Ninety-nine years old, because the character for "Bai" is the missing "one" in the character for "hundred", so it is called. Tea Life: 108 years old, because the cursive character for tea is double "ten", which adds up to "twenty", and the "human" in the middle is "eight"; the "human" at the bottom is "eight"; the "human" at the bottom is "eight". "; the bottom of the "wood" that is "ten" and "eight" added that is "eighteen The "wood" at the bottom, i.e. "ten" and "eight" are added together to form "eighteen". In the bottom together constitute "eighty-eight", plus the word "twenty", a **** is "one hundred and eight", so it is called.

The classic work of traditional Chinese medicine "Su Wen - on the ancient theory of heavenly truth" cloud: "I heard that the ancient people, spring and autumn are all degrees of a hundred years old, and the action does not fail

Calligrapher Mr. Wang Jing works "longevity"

. ...... Therefore, those who can all live a hundred years in the spring and autumn and their movements do not decline, with a view to making their virtue complete and not endangering it." The Spiritual Pivot - Heavenly Years" cloud: "Huang Di said: people's life 100 years old and die, how to make it? ...... hundred years old, the five viscera are virtual, the gods are gone, the form of the skeleton alone and end."