Since the birth of human beings, how to achieve longevity has been a topic that can never be avoided.
The most famous pursuit of longevity in my country is the case where Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to Xianshan to seek medicine. It’s a pity that Xu Fu did not bring back the elixir of immortality, but became the ancestor of the Japanese overseas.
Looking at those people in history who have recorded their longevity, you will find that for ordinary people, their longevity cannot be envied.
Because most of these people are people who are separated from this mortal world, some are monks who have attained enlightenment, some are Taoist priests who have practiced Taoist , and a small number of people who have extremely self-disciplined life.
The magical nature seems to have already set up human genes, and enjoyment and longevity cannot coexist. No matter how rich you are, as long as you enjoy the debauchery brought by wealth, your life will pass faster.
The only local religion
As the only local religion in China, Taoism still has a strong say in the longevity.
According to legend, The founder of Wudang Sect Zhang Sanfeng lived in his 200s and died Ming Dynasty came to find more than a dozen emperors who wanted the secret of longevity.
And the protagonist of this article, the female Taoist priest in her 100s in the Qing Dynasty, happened to be worshipped by the Wudangshan Xuanmen Sect, and devoted himself to practicing for nearly a hundred years.
I wonder if you have discovered that Taoism has been integrated into our lives, and you will inadvertently come into contact with information and events related to Taoism.
Starting from the traditional festivals we are familiar with, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of October are collectively called the three-yuan period, which correspond to the Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Lower Yuan Festival .
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There is also a place where there are Chinese people, you will definitely celebrate the Spring Festival. Among them, the New Year's atmosphere, such as sending the Kitchen God, receiving the God of Wealth, New Year's Eve, New Year's greetings, etc., also come from Taoism.
In addition, Taoist elements are common among many film and television works.
Hong Kong's most popular zombie movies, some gods in the sky in "Journey to the West" among the four masterpieces, the Quanzhen Sect and the Wudang Sect in Jin Yong's martial arts works, and the Immortal Cultivation Novels scattered on the Internet. The magical thing about
is that a lot of content does not need to be explained, and Chinese people can understand it at a glance. For example, the proprietary terms such as alchemy, talisman, , peach wood sword, , altar, etc. are obviously Taoist, but most Chinese people can see their appearance in their minds as long as they hear it.
It can be seen from this that Taoism’s influence on China is subtle and has long been closely related to our lives.
witnessed the rebirth of China's Kundao
. Taoism is a religion with "attaining the Tao" as its core and taking health preservation as its ultimate goal. Therefore, those who have truly entered Taoism must be able to practice some exercises for health preservation and bodybuilding.
From the results, these techniques have indeed made Taoism have many cases of longevity. Just like the 100-year-old Kundao Li Chengyu I will talk about today. Since I became a monk at the age of 27, I have practiced and witnessed my land of China moving from feudal society to prosperity and strength. This flash of a hundred years has passed.
When Li Chengyu was born, the land of China was still under the stormy Qing Dynasty rule, and various feudal bad habits were deeply rooted. She is also one of the women in the old society who cannot help her. She was sent to be a child bride at the age of six.
Fortunately, the husband's family is quite reasonable to Li Chengyu. When she was seventeen years old, she became a graceful girl and arranged to marry her husband. Her life after marriage could be called loving and happy.
But the good times did not last long. In the third year after marriage, Li Chengyu unfortunately contracted tuberculosis. His husband visited local famous doctors for several years but did not achieve much results.
In desperation, the couple looked at Wudang Mountain, which was close to her, and could see her head. After all, Li Chengyu lived under this fairy mountain when she was born. She also knew that Wudang Mountain has been a Taoist holy land since ancient times, and there were some fairy-like ladies living on it. Perhaps there was a way to cure her tuberculosis.
The ancients said: Nine out of ten ways of medicine, Taoism is the most important medicine. Accompanied by her husband, Li Chengyu embarked on a journey to Wudang Mountain to seek medical treatment. Unexpectedly, her tuberculosis was cured by Wudang Taoist Zhang Zhishen.
After healing, Li Chengyu was reborn. She never felt that being able to breathe fresh air normally was so hard-won, and the fresh air on Wudang Mountain was still fresh in her memory.
And more importantly, the Taoist on the mountain is so magical that he can eradicate the chronic disease that he has not been cured for a long time, and a grateful heart arises naturally.
So, after thinking about it again and again, Li Chengyu made an extremely extraordinary decision in the society at that time. She actually advised her husband to find another wife, and then resolutely returned to Wudang Mountain and followed the Taoist priest who saved her to practice.
Next until Li Chengyu became a feather in 2003, she spent nearly a century practicing on Wudang Mountain.
During this period, Qing died, Japan surrendered, Chiang Kai-shek ran away, New China was founded, and we were prosperous and strong. With her longevity, Li Chengyu was fortunate to become a witness to all this glorious history.
Of course, if it is just because of longevity, it is not uncommon among the tens of millions of compatriots in our vast Chinese. Even some veterans who have experienced the cruel war of to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea have reached the age of 100.
So what is unusual about Li Chengyu? Let us enter her world of cultivation and explore it.
A hundred years of practice, extraordinary among ordinary
I want to say the most valuable thing in this world. Doing the same thing in nearly a hundred years is by no means that ordinary people can persist in perseverance, let alone giving up love, let go of desire, and stay in the mountains far away from the world.
Even if it is an iron bird flying in the air that will drop bombs, Li Chengyu has never wavered. And it was her persistence that actually caused a wonderful change in her body in her later years.
attracted many experts and scholars to visit each other for a while, and many believers who wanted to pursue longevity came here, hoping to learn the skills of longevity under her disciples.
According to reports at that time, when Li Chengyu was a hundred years old, his white hair on his head showed signs of darkening, and a third pair of teeth grew under his fallen permanent teeth.
In addition, she is not only smart and sharp-eyed in her youth, but also has smooth and firm skin, fair and elastic.
If it were ordinary people who had survived this age, they would not talk about whether they could maintain the elasticity of their skin. They would have deaf ears, presbyopia, and pain in the back. They would have less pain in the back. They were all the envy of other old guys.
In order to study the strange phenomena that occurred in Li Chengyu, experts arranged a comprehensive physical examination for her. First, it can further help Li Chengyu stay healthy, and more importantly, if you can find any secret of longevity in her, it will definitely be a blessing for the whole of China and even mankind.
However, the experts were even more stunned after the entire process. Li Chengyu's body is indeed different from ordinary people, but it is hard to describe what is different.
Her internal organs are full of vitality, which once made experts think that they got the wrong physical examination report of a middle-aged man.
The mystery in Li Chengyu has been further increased, and the experts have to turn their attention to her daily life and practice, hoping to find some clues from it.
Fortunately, this time they finally found the right direction. Li Chengyu's secret is by no means a supernatural phenomenon. Everything is hidden in her ordinary and boring daily practice.
And Li Chengyu is not stingy with her health secrets. Whenever someone asks her, she will patiently show her daily life one by one.What kind of magical exercises is
that can make people rejuvenate? Please study with me and find out their extraordinary points.
Health Preservation Way
Walking into Li Chengyu's daily life, experts found that her cultivation content was quite rich. Except for the homework of the morning and evening, Li Chengyu's time is almost occupied by a lot of practice.
She goes to bed early every day, and the first thing she does when she wakes up in the morning is to practice the parts above her neck first.
Simply put, it is to practice your eyes first, look far away, look close, rotate your eyes, and then close your eyes and rest. Secondly, gently tap the root of the mountain with your thumb 36 times, saying that it can prevent a cold.
Next, swallow the golden liquor, that is, swallow the mouth-washing tea. Even the tea that rinses your mouth must be swallowed together and not waste it.
This is not over yet. Li Chengyu has to knock his teeth in the morning and evening every day, and insist on combing his hair with a wooden comb. These seemingly ordinary trivial matters contain the wisdom of the ancients' health preservation everywhere.
And these small details can stand the verification of modern medicine, and relevant records can be found in traditional Chinese medicine classics.
Of course, in addition to these morning exercises, Li Chengyu also has some cultivation props that we don’t usually have.
First of all, a pair of wooden rings with two rings connected together. When practicing, put them on your arms and raise your hands to make circular motions, just like a pair of small hula hoops , and it will make a crisp and pleasant sound when it collides.
There is also a small wooden stick half a meter long, exuding a dark brown luster all over. If you don’t look carefully, you will think it is a fire stick in the kitchen.
According to Li Chengyu, this stick is called the longevity stick, which was passed down to her by her master Zhang Zhishen in the year when the founding of New China.
At that time, the wooden stick was still the color of a log. After half a century of cultivation, Li Chengyu finally put a thick layer of patina on it, which looked no less than the Wenwan Walnut in the hands of the old men on the street.
As for the practice of the longevity stick, you may not believe it when you say it. Just simply hold one end, throw it up and rotate it 180 degrees, and then catch it. Repeat this for a hundred times in one group, three groups a day.
dynamic practice, and then there is static practice. The cultivation method is not unfamiliar to us, it is meditation.
is too professional, such as the five hearts facing the sky, so I won’t go into details here. Li Chengyu just sat down and started in 6 hours, and the longest was even more than half a day. This is definitely something that ordinary people can do.
After practicing, Li Chengyu also needs to practice a passage from Tai Chi to exercise his muscles and bones to relieve the poor blood circulation caused by long-term meditation. This is also a place that friends who are just starting to practice meditation are prone to neglect.
In addition to these health-preserving techniques, Li Chengyu also pays special attention to diet. She often goes to the forest on the mountain to collect wild vegetables and eat them with her apprentices. She also takes as little salt and oil as possible when cooking, and has three meals on time and is never wasted food.
Every once in a while, Li Chengyu also needs to fasting , which is conducive to speeding up metabolism and allowing the body to further detoxify.
However, if you have not received professional training or have no dedicated supervision, most people should not try to fast. Because blind fasting in improper methods is harmful to the body.
The Miracle of Life
Understand what Li Chengyu has been busy all day, and maybe everyone doesn’t think there is anything magical about her and her cultivation.
But these seemingly ordinary little things have allowed a paralyzed old man to last for more than ten years of his life, and this old man is Li Chengyu himself.
Who would have thought that Li Chengyu, who has always been agile, slipped in 1989 because he accidentally stepped on snow and broke hip , causing paralysis in the lower body.
There must be deep feelings for an elderly person in the family who has suffered this crime. Older people must not fall . Once they lie on the bed, no matter how tough they were before, it would be difficult to recover as they were before. And those who fell directly into paralysis like Li Chengyu can't hold on for a few years.
But Li Chengyu was not defeated by the hardships in front of her. With the help of her disciples, she still insisted on her original practice, but unfortunately she could no longer go to the forest to pick wild vegetables.
Speaking of this, how did these seemingly ordinary health-preserving methods allow Li Chengyu to create miracles of life again and again, and allow her to have a long life that countless people have been rushing to since ancient times?
The real mystery
In fact, the so-called abnormal phenomena in Li Chengyu are traceable, and they can be explained reasonably by modern medicine.
The new teeth grown by Li Chengyu are mostly impaired teeth or ambush teeth. Normal humans only have two sets of teeth. When some permanent teeth are occupied by other permanent teeth during eruption, they may be hidden there all the time. When they get older and lose their teeth, they will come out in a big way. This is not a rare thing among the elderly.
As for the situation of darkening hair, it is mainly related to changes in physical fitness. It is reasonable that those who often fast for food and suffer serious injuries to their bodies will return to black after their vitality is restored.
So, we don’t need to listen to rumors online and regard her longevity as such a magical thing. What we really need to do is to understand that her "fruit" is obtained through persistent practice over the years.
Her real secret of health preservation is not the unique skill of the Wudang School, but the belief that is important in persistence, coupled with extreme self-discipline and the spirit of not giving up on oneself in adversity.
Friends who want to get a long life might as well review yourself. How long has it been since I went to bed early and got up early? When was the last time I got drunk? Did you insist on doing exercise?
I believe that as long as you master the correct exercise method and persevere, you can live as long as Li Chengyu.
