INTRODUCING LI CHING - YUEN – WORLD’S LONGEST LIVING HUMAN?

I wish to introduce two very unique Men in the next series of articles but first let us deal with this extra-ordinary Human Li Ching-Yuen who reportedly lived till 197 years. But this was his own admission until a researcher in China, Prof Wu Chung- Chieh, claimed to uncover documents that put his birth year as 1677 instead of 1736 as claimed by Li himself. Prof Wu discovered Imperial Chinese Government documents of 1827 congratulating Li on his 150th birthday and again in 1877, congratulating him on his 200th birthday, thus putting his birth year as 1677 instead. Li was well known as a Herbalist but he should be better known as the last documented great Taoist Master in my opinion. Many people believed that his great Herbal knowledge contributed to his long life but it was more than this. It has to be combined with Taoist Alchemy, meditation and Qigong. Some writers thought that Li must have forgotten his birth year and said it wrongly but it can’t be in my opinion because by saying he was born in the year 1736 is already unbelievable, what more to claim 1677? Others said he didn’t look like an old man of 197 years but this is the wrong concept as many people who are very old ( 90 years or more) and very healthy still, don’t usually look over 70 years as literally they stopped aging physically. And those who really looked their age at 100 years, are those who will not live very long. I bring this topic up because I just would like to open your mind to such things as more Truths will be known regarding religion, politics, wars and extra- terrestrial life by this decade or even very much less. Watch out for my report on another very unusual Human.