Saturday, March 2, 2013

256 Year Old Man


256 Year Old Man
Thursday, February 28, 2013 13:36

(Before it is news)
  
Li Ching-Yuen was a Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical adviser who lived to the ripe old age of 256 and sired 200 descendants during his life span, surviving 23 wives. 

Ching-Yuen lived off a diet of herbs and rice wine inculding lingzhi, goji berry, wild ginseng, he shou wu and gotu kola. In a 1930 New York Times article, Professor Wu Chung-chieh of the University of Chengdu discovered Imperial Chinese government records from 1827, congratulating one Li Ching-Yuen on his 150th birthday.

1 comment:

siriusvoid said...

He practiced Taoist Yoga, and a 'prenatal breathing' Immortal Technique...