There is a saying that goes well "There are only a handful of days in this world, and it is hard to live for thirty-six thousand days." Since ancient times, health and longevity have been people’s long-cherished wish. But in fact, very few people live to be a hundred years old in this life.
Life is something that cannot be forced upon. The famous figure Qin Shihuang in ancient times devoted all his efforts to finding a way to live forever, but he failed to realize this wish.
It is extremely rare for people to live to be over a hundred years old. There is an old man named Yang Mingyun in Shandong who once realized that Qin Shihuang was pursuing the "method of immortality".
Yang Mingyun
Yang Mingyun has seen the decline of in the Qing Dynasty and experienced the development of New China. He lived for more than a hundred years, childless but spent the rest of his life happily. What has Yang Mingyun experienced? Why can he live for more than a hundred years?
The late Qing Dynasty
Yang Mingyun was born in 1897, which was the 23rd year of Guangxu. This was a dark and chaotic era. The corruption and stupidity of the Qing government made people all over the world live in dire straits.
Faced with the oppression of Western powers, the Qing government suffered repeated defeats and could only continue to cede territory and pay compensation. If the government has no money, it will increase taxes on the people. Under the continuous exploitation, the national power of the entire Qing Dynasty was also infinitely weakening.
People's lives are miserable, and Yang Mingyun was born in this context. It is conceivable that his life is not easy, because Yang Mingyun is also one of many working-class families.
Yang Mingyun
Yang Mingyun's parents do not have a good livelihood, and like all poor people, they are living a difficult life. When he grew up, he went out to work when he was a teenager, hoping to supplement some income for the family.
Although Yang Mingyun was very sensible, in that difficult world, basically no one wanted to use a teenage child. After all, many young workers cannot find jobs.
In desperation, Yang Mingyun found a temple in the mountains. The monks in the temple were kind-hearted and left him in the temple as a handyman.
Although he has little income, Yang Mingyun can have enough to eat without adding any burden to his family. Apart from occasionally, bringing some food to the family is already a great thing.
Yang Mingyun did not watch anything in the temple. She chopped firewood and carried water every day, was responsible for some chores in the temple, and also cooked with the monks.
I continued to work like this for several more years. In the temple, Yang Mingyun received good influence from the Buddhist culture. He developed a very good mentality and learned some special exercise methods from his master.
A few years later, when Yang Mingyun was in his twenties, his life ushered in some changes. He originally lived in Tangshan . A year later, he moved to Yantai, Shandong Province with his father and a family of brothers and sisters.
The port economy was very developed at that time, so Yang Mingyun found a hard-working job at the Yantai port with his own strength.
Although the work is very hard, he makes a lot of money. Yang Mingyun worked late every day, and finally managed to maintain the family's life, allowing them to live a life where they could have enough to eat.
As a result, the family officially lived in Shandong. Labor work is very hard. Yang Mingyun mostly moves some goods, and sometimes does other labor, but it is basically hard work.
In his boring life, Yang Mingyun fell in love with listening to books. At that time, there were many storytellers and opera singers in crowded places. They had their own small stalls and stands, and they would sell their crafts every day in the workers' free time.
These people will tell some well-known stories, similar to the excerpts from the four contemporary classics. The workers listened with great interest every time, especially at night, when there were even more people who came to listen to the book.
After a long time, Yang Mingyun became a frequent visitor here, and he also learned a lot of story telling jokes.Being able to hear some stories like this every day is his greatest comfort after a hard day's work.
These excellent traditional cultures not only enriched Yang Mingyun's spiritual time, but also improved his cultural level in disguised form. He has listened to each book more than ten times, and he can even speak a paragraph of it on weekdays.
Even his co-workers would joke with him and say: "If you set up a stall to tell stories, you wouldn't make much more money than you do now!" When he heard this, Yang Mingyun would laugh out loud, and he continued to do his hard work and did not go into other industries.
Hard life
Because of the difficulties in life, Yang Mingyun did not save some money until he was thirty years old. Then he married a daughter-in-law and had his own home.
After getting married, Yang Mingyun worked harder. His wife is also very hard-working, and the couple and his wife are living well, and they can save some money after living.
But the two have been married for a long time, but they have never had children. This was a very serious matter in the old days. But Yang Mingyun had a good mentality and did not regard this as a big problem.
After a long time, Yang Mingyun and his wife adopted their nephew Yang Yuxing. After having children, the family lives more happily.
Yang Mingyun and his wife are very kind and like their children very much. When Yang Yuxing was very young, his father passed away for some reason, and only his mother had to live with him with difficulty.
After arriving at Yang Mingyun's home, the little boy felt the warmth of "father" again. Although they are uncle and aunt, to Yang Yuxing, they are no different from his biological parents.
Yang Yuxing received good care and education, both in life and spirit. Yang Mingyun treated each other as if he were his own children and never treated her harshly in the slightest.
In a good environment, Yang Yuxing also received good growth and training. Although life was hard, with Yang Mingyun's support at home, the family did not suffer too many setbacks.
It was not easy in those days to live a stable life. After going through warlord melee, Yang Mingyun also knew about the Japanese invaders' invasion of China and the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
Because of his good mentality, Yang Mingyun was not affected too much by the war. He did not join the army to serve the country like many young people, but lived a stable life like an ordinary person.
Yang Mingyun worked hard to support his family, leaving early and coming back late every day, working hard and without complaint. The wife is taking care of the family business and will go out to earn some money in her spare time to supplement the family income.
Yang Yuxing also grew up healthily. Yang Mingyun lived frugally and married a wife for him. Yang Yuxing got married early. When she married her wife, Lu Yuzhen, she was only in her teens.
But this young couple lived a very sweet life. Their relationship was very good, and they added a lot of laughter to Yang Mingyun's big family.
Lu Yuzhen is also very kind and filial, and is a very sensible little girl. After she married into the Yang family, her life was quite difficult, but everyone's life was very happy.
Yang Mingyun and his wife were also very good friends with Lu Yuzhen and did not regard him as an outsider. Lu Yuzhen is also very polite in life, and she respects her father-in-law and mother-in-law even more. She will do all the housework on her own.
Several years after Yang Yuxing got married, he and his wife gave birth to four children. Yang Mingyun took care of their grandchildren for them, and their life became sweeter.
With the progress of the times, New China has been established. Years of wars have ceased, and people's lives have become more promising.
Yang Mingyun has more insights into the new life. Although he did not participate in the struggle of the times, he personally experienced and witnessed the development of everything.
Yang Mingyun, who has been training in temples since he was a child, is full of gratitude for life. With this good attitude, their lives will be happier.
Lu Yuzhen and Yang Mingyun
Yang Mingyun and his wife take care of their four grandchildren at home, and they no longer go out to do hard work. During the period of development and life in New China, Yang Yuxing and Lu Yuzhen were able to maintain a very happy family.
The stable life passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, Yang Mingyun and his wife were getting older. The grandchildren who used to be noisy around him have all grown up one after another.
Enjoy your old age
But in his later years, Yang Mingyun suddenly experienced an unfortunate incident. When his wife was 60 years old, she lost her sight due to eye disease.
This change frightened Yang Mingyun. He and his wife had been together for a lifetime and had long since become very important life partners.
Yang Mingyun stays with his wife every day, talks to her, and tells her stories about what happened in the past. He is also more careful in his life, just to prevent his wife from feeling the isolation and loneliness of life.
But after losing her sight, it was obvious that Yang Mingyun's wife was getting worse and worse. She often suffered from various diseases. Although they were minor disasters, they still devastated her body and made her even weaker.
At the age of 71, Yang Mingyun lost his wife who had been with him all his life, which made him feel very uncomfortable. Gradually, although life was getting better day by day, many novel things appeared in front of his eyes.
But Yang Mingyun still felt endless loneliness in his life. Moreover, several of his brothers and sisters also left him one after another. This feeling also put a great burden on Yang Mingyun's spirit.
Fortunately, Yang Mingyun's son and daughter-in-law are still alive. After they realized the old man's loneliness, they tried their best to accompany him and take care of her. Fortunately, old man Yang Mingyun had a good attitude, and soon he looked past life and death and returned to a normal life.
In addition, what makes Yang Mingyun most happy is that his former grandchildren will still be by his side. With the company of his family, Yang Mingyun's life has returned to a happy and joyful state.
In 1997, Yang Mingyun had become a famous figure around him because he had reached the age of 100. On his birthday, everyone in the family came, and even the community workers specially brought gifts to express their condolences.
Several reporters also interviewed and blessed the centenarian. Although Yang Mingyun is a hundred years old, he is still in good health.
Yang Mingyun has a ruddy complexion and lively eyes. His hair is already gray and he still has a long white beard. He looks like an "old birthday boy".
Faced with everyone’s chats and inquiries, Yang Mingyun answered fluently and his thinking and actions were very clear. Because of the care of Yang Yuxing and Lu Yuzhen, his later life was also very happy.
At Yang Mingyun’s birthday party, the fourth generation descendants were already alive and kicking. Accompanied by the children, Yang Mingyun was laughing and laughing all day long and was in very good spirits.
For such an old man, reporters and some staff are somewhat curious about his "secret" to longevity. After being asked by reporters, Yang Mingyun truthfully spoke about his life and preferences.
Yang Mingyun said: "My life is no different from ordinary people. The only difference is that I exercise every day. The way I exercise is what I learned from my master in the temple when I was a child."
After Yang Mingyun's narration, the reporter learned that apart from his daily hobby of exercising, his living habits are not any different from other people. And the kind of exercise he mentioned, after expert research, said it is called "shaking mountains and shaking seas".
Yang Mingyun didn't know if this was what experts call "Shaking the Mountain Shaking the Sea ". In short, he did learn an acupoint massage method in the temple.
This habit has kept him going all his life. If he really wanted to find out the reason for longevity, apart from this, he didn't know what else was special.
What's even more special is that Yang Mingyun has a good mentality. Other than that, his life is no different from that of a normal person. But in 2004, Yang Mingyun also accidentally fell to the ground because his feet slipped in winter.
This fall caused the old man to recuperate for a long time. For an old man over 100 years old, a slight bump would probably kill him. Even the old man Yang Mingyun himself felt that it was unlikely that he would survive.
Faced with this situation, Lu Yuzhen never gave up. When she was 13 years old, she became Yang Mingyun's daughter-in-law and took care of him for more than 70 years.
While Yang Mingyun was recuperating, Lu Yuzhen, who had white hair, was still taking care of the old man tirelessly. Thanks to the efforts of the whole family, the old man's illness miraculously recovered, but he still has some difficulty in walking.
After more than half a year of recuperation, the old man returned to his normal life. Until one afternoon on March 17, 2014, Yang Mingyun passed away without any illness.
According to the memories of his family, "Since the old man caught a cold last year and came back from the hospital for treatment, his health has become worse and worse."
A few days before the old man's death, Yang Yuxing also felt something was wrong. After getting up from his nap that day, he went to see Yang Mingyun.
Yang Yuxing said: "I went to see him about ten minutes ago. He didn't say anything. When I went there again, I saw him leaving with a smile and walking peacefully."
Yang Mingyun lived for 117 years. It can be regarded as a blessing to die without illness.
Reference:
1. Yang Mingyun’s farewell ceremony was held at 8 o’clock this morning {Qilu Evening News}
2. Explore the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine: with a flick of the spine, all diseases will disappear! The miraculous "Shaking Mountains and Seas" {People's Information}
3. The oldest man in Shandong, 117 years old: Remembers that he was born during the reign of Guangxu {ifeng.com}
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