Who are the people who seek longevity in ancient and modern times and foreign countries

(a) Emperors and kings have fewer longevity, religion, qigong community longevity.

Long life, longevity, life than South Mountain is not old pine, has been for thousands of years people dreaming of a good wish. From ancient times to the present, people have made many explorations and attempts on the issue of longevity, and the ancient emperors almost reached the point of madness in pursuit of longevity.

The ancient emperors had the most valuable things in the world, such as supreme power, the ability to decide the life and death of others, glorious palaces, inexhaustible gold and silver treasures, beautiful women, and so on, and so on, and even more want to have a long life, and want to live with the sky, in order to enjoy the earth forever.

From China's ancient first emperor Qin Shi Huang began, on the search for immortality by all means, he widely recruited elixir, all over the collection of immortal prescription,. He heard that there are three sacred mountains on the Bohai Sea, there are immortals living on the mountain, and the medicine of immortality, so he spared huge sums of money to send Xu Fu with thousands of boys and girls across the sea eastward, to find that vague and ethereal sacred mountains, immortals, immortality medicine, and the results ended up with a complete failure, Xu Fu did not know where to go, the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang only lived forty-nine years old and died.

The hero of the world of Tang Taizong Li Shimin was in the battlefield, powerful, to the late years of the pursuit of immortality medicine, he swallowed the Western monks refining gold, serving mercury poisoning, digestive organs rot and die. He died at the age of 53.

Since the former Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, followed the words of the priests, sacrificed to the God of the stove, said that the refining of the sand into "gold", you can live forever. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty the art of alchemy continues to decline, some people think that "gold is not rowan" so indiscriminate service of gold in order to seek longevity, the results are counterproductive, from the Tang Dynasty Palace of Xianzong, Mu Zong, Jing Zong, Xuan Zong, etc. are due to swallowing gold poisoning and death. Later, China's traditional religion Taoism summarized the lessons of previous failures, concluded that the "Dan" is not outside the human body, the human body has its own "Dan", so the main Taoist practice is to cultivate the human body's "Golden Elixir". Therefore, the main practice of Taoism is to cultivate the "Golden Dan" within the human body in order to seek immortality. This is also from the failure to summarize the lessons.

In recent times, many scientists at home and abroad have conducted a lot of research on longevity, and put forward many theories about longevity. Among them are the theory of spirit endocrine, autoimmunity, cell division, biological clock, error theory, etc., but also studied the limit of human life.

The former Soviet Union also has a research program on immortality, a Soviet man named domain Dov has 144 years old, but looks like 65 years old, which is entirely due to him in the past 42 years to receive the Soviet scientists immortality drug experiments, only to make his gray hair black, teeth re-growth, the body is increasingly strong. The drug is still in the experimental stage and the final results are not yet known.

From ancient times to the present many people have conducted a lot of research and exploration of human longevity, and there are a lot of successes and failures, so how about the role of religion and qigong in longevity and theory? Many people in China are learning and practicing qigong and pinning their hopes for longevity on it, so can qigong be a key for human beings to really open the door to longevity? Is there any worthwhile research on the longevity of traditional Taoist gong methods in China? The author believes that both qigong, traditional Chinese medicine theory and experience, as well as Taoist gong method in longevity from theory to practice have many successes, worthy of in-depth study.

Today's scientists believe that the highest life expectancy for a human being is 8 to 10 times that of sexual maturity. Humans` sexual maturity is at 14----15 years old, so the highest human life expectancy should be between 110----150 years old; or the highest human life expectancy is equivalent to 5---7 times the growth period, which is about 20----25 years old, so the highest human life expectancy should be at `100----175 years old.

In our country, some religious and qigong practitioners do have some longevity among them, and their lifespan exceeds the maximum lifespan of human beings as projected by modern scientists, i.e., it is more than 100-----175 years old, or it has reached the lifespan that scientists expect.

The originator of Taoism, Laozi, lived to be about 200 years old. Laozi, surnamed Li, the name of the ear, legend has it that he was a man of the State of Chu, and did the Zhou Dynasty's Shouzangshi (historian in charge of the national archives). According to the Historical Records. Laozhuang Zhonghan Liezhuan (老庄中韩列传), it is written, "Gai Laozi was more than a hundred and sixty years old, or more than two hundred years old, because he cultivated the Way and nourished his life."

Lao Zi's most famous article, "Tao Te Ching", is a masterpiece in the history of philosophy and qigong in China, which mentions that "Tao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, and three gives birth to ten thousand," which is a famous saying that highly summarizes the law of development of the universe, and Lao Zi was a famous philosopher of the late Spring and Autumn Period in China. Laozi is a famous philosopher and thinker in the late Spring and Autumn period of China, as well as the founder of Taoism and a qigong master in China. Laozi also had supernormal capabilities and had trained many students with supernormal capabilities, which is also recorded in history. At the same time, Laozi is also one of the high life expectancy in China.

Sun Xun of the Jin Dynasty, who founded the Jingming School of Taoism, was well versed in Taoism's "Tianyuan Danfa" and "Diyuan Danfa", and he was also a learned man, versed in magical arts, divine formulas, astronomy, geography, and so on. Legend has it that he could "turn rubble into gold" and save the people. His major works include "Ling Jian Zi" and "Shi Han Ji". His life expectancy was 136 years (239----374 AD).

Another school of Taoist internal alchemy that emerged in the Tang and Song dynasties was the Wen Shi school, founded by Chen Zhen. He specialized in internal and external Dan method, sleep and secluded valley, etc., a deeper study of the Yi, his academic thinking on the Song Dynasty and beyond the far-reaching impact of the Song dynasty science founder Zhou Dunyi's "taijitu" comes from Chen, ShaoKangJie Chen compiled the biography of the book "Huangji Jingshishu" and so on. "Chen's work on dan dao, health maintenance, and health care has been widely recognized by the public. Chen had high attainments in dan dao, health care and econometrics. He also had a long life span of 118 years (872 ----989 AD).

The Northern Sect of Taoism in China is headed by Wang Chongyang, seven people, known as the "Northern Sect of the Seven Truths," with an average life expectancy of 65.3 years, which is not too high; however, five of the "Five Ancestors of the Southern Song Dynasty" have a life expectancy of more than one hundred years,

The Yuan Dynasty Qigong (元代) is the most important of the five ancient Taoist schools. >

Yuan Dynasty qigong master Zhang Sanfeng lived 160----218 years; called the immortal Lu Dongbin lived more than 200 years; in modern China's Li Qingyuan live two 256 years (1679----1935), he is good at both martial arts and qigong. Some people say that China's Tang Dynasty monk Huizhao was the world's longevity champion, who lived to be 290 years old. He outlived Ferm of England, who was once considered one of the world's longest-living people. Kahn, who lived to be 207 years old, and Manpei of Japan, who lived to be 242 years old. According to the [Chronology of the Births and Deaths of Monks Throughout the Ages], "Huizhao, male, was born in 526 and died in 816 at the age of 290." There is also a record of him in the [Dictionary of Chinese Celebrities]: "Huizhao said that his surname was Liu, and that he was the great-grandson of King Hanyang of the Tang Dynasty, and that he was 290 years old. He was widely sought as a disciple, and disappeared, not knowing where he ended up." Is he the world's longest living person?

Legend has it that our ancient Peng Zu lived more than 800 years, I think this is not just a legend, in some of our country's historical materials on the Peng Zu its people have records,, China's ancient book [Shiben] in the Peng Zu there are records, said he lived more than 800 years. Ge Hong, a scholar of the Jin Dynasty, made a special biography of Peng Zu in his [Biography of the Immortals], which can be found in the second volume of [Taiping Guangji]. Ge Hong said in his {Biography of Peng Zu} that Peng Zu, who was 767 years old at the end of the Yin Dynasty, had aroused the great interest of the King of Yin, who had sent a man to ask for advice on the way of longevity, whereupon Peng Zu made a great discourse. So Peng Zu made a big speech, talking about his views on longevity. Peng Zu was quite good at qigong and the way of health maintenance, and he had writings on qigong, namely the famous Peng Zu longevity gong method and Peng Zu qi serving method. Because Peng Zu was good at qigong and longevity, his life expectancy was as high as 800 years old, which can be regarded as a strange man in the ancient times. So Peng Zu is not the longest living person in ancient and modern times?

According to some documents in our country, there are people who live longer than Peng Zu. In our country, it is recorded in [Buddha's Unification Records] and [The Five Lamps] that the monk Bao Palm lived to be 1,072 years old, and this is the world's highest lifespan that can be remembered by the year of death.

Nowadays, people tend to disbelieve in the mention of long-lived people, and some of them regard them as strange, or treat them as legends. The long-lived people listed above are documented in ancient times and cannot be regarded as mere legends. In the Buddhist, Taoist qigong practitioners who have practiced the art of longevity are indeed more people, it is not surprising to see those who are over 100 years old, and there are many people who are over 200 years old. Nowadays, scientists predict that the highest life expectancy of human beings in general is between 125 and 175 years old, which is 5----7 times of the maturity of human beings, but Li Qingyuan and Huizhao have lived for more than 200 years, which is far beyond the highest life expectancy of human beings according to scientists. This also shows that qigong has indeed made considerable breakthroughs in human longevity. There are many valuable experiences worth exploring and studying.

The author believes that the role of religion (mainly Buddhism and Taoism) and qigong in human longevity has the following aspects: First, qigong practitioners and Buddhists and Taoists emphasize very much on the need to have Taoist cultivation, and advocate that we should do good deeds and accumulate virtues, and should not be detrimental to others and benefit ourselves, and that in fact there is a very close relationship between one's moral cultivation and worldview and one's longevity. Ancient `people have long recognized the relationship between morality and longevity, and Confucius, the great sage of ancient China, has long put forward the idea of "the life of the benevolent". The idea is that people with moral integrity tend to live long and healthy lives. Those who live a long life in our country and in the world often have many excellent character traits, such as high moral character, not caring about fame and fortune, living a contented life, having an open mind, being selfless, and getting along harmoniously with others, and so on. Religious and qigong practitioners put the cultivation of one's morality in the first place, believing that one can only be high in virtue and high in gong. Morality includes a wide range of things, from the smallest to the quasi-responsibility of a person's behavior to the understanding of the laws of the universe, a person's worldview is correct, and only by doing things in accordance with the laws of nature can one achieve unity between man and nature, and also live a long life. (I