Who are the people who pursue immortality at all times and in all countries?

(1) emperors live longer than others, and religious and qigong circles live longer than others.

Immortality, longevity than Nanshan, has been a beautiful wish that people have dreamed of for thousands of years. Since ancient times, people have made many explorations and attempts on longevity, and ancient emperors almost went crazy in pursuit of longevity.

After having supreme power, the ability to decide the life and death of others, magnificent palaces, inexhaustible treasures of gold and silver, beautiful women like clouds and other most precious things in the world, ancient emperors all wanted to live a long life, to live with the sky and enjoy the world forever.

Since the first emperor of ancient China, Qin Shihuang, he has tried his best to seek immortality. He widely collected elixirs and adopted fairy prescriptions. He heard that there are three sacred mountains on the Bohai Sea, where immortals live and there are elixirs for life. So he did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to send Xu Fu to take thousands of boys and girls across the sea to find the ethereal immortal of the holy mountain, the elixir of life, and the result ended in complete failure. Chui fook disappeared, and Qin Shihuang only lived for 49 years and died.

Li Shimin, the hero of Emperor Taizong, once dominated the battlefield. In his later years, he pursued the medicine of immortality. He swallowed the elixir refined by monks in the western regions. After taking it, he was poisoned by mercury, and his digestive organs rotted and died. Only 53 years old.

Before the Han Dynasty, Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, followed the advice of the alchemist and offered sacrifices to the kitchen god, saying that smelting cinnabar into "gold" could lead to immortality. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the art of alchemy has been enduring for a long time. Some people think that "gold is not attractive", so they abuse the elixir of life, and the result is just the opposite. Judging from the Tang Dynasty, Xian Zong, Mu Zong, Jing Zong and Xuanzong all died by taking poison. Later, Taoism, a traditional religion in China, summed up the lessons of past failures and came to the conclusion that "Dan" is not outside the human body, but exists in the human body, so the main achievement of Taoism is to cultivate the "Golden Dan" in the human body in order to live forever. This is also a lesson learned from failure.

In recent years, many scientists at home and abroad have done a lot of research on longevity and put forward many theories about longevity. Among them are endocrine, autoimmune, cell division, biological clock, error and other theories, and also study the limit of human life.

The former Soviet Union also has plans to study immortality. A Soviet named Vitov, 144 years old, looks as good as 65 years old. It is entirely because he has been tested by Soviet scientists in the past 42 years. His white hair has turned black, his teeth have regenerated and his body has become stronger. The drug is still in the experimental stage, and the final result is still unknown.

Since ancient times, many people have done a lot of research and exploration on human longevity, with many successful experiences and failures. What about the role and theory of religion and qigong in longevity? Many people in China are learning Qigong, pinning their hopes of longevity on Qigong. So can qigong really become a key for human beings to open the door to longevity? Is there anything worth studying about the longevity of China's traditional Taoist skills? The author thinks that both Qigong, theoretical experience of Chinese medicine and Taoist techniques have many successes in prolonging life from theory to practice, which are worthy of further study.

Scientists today believe that the longest life span of a person should be 8- 10 times that of sexual maturity. When the sexual maturity age of human beings is 14- 15, the highest life expectancy of human beings should be110/50; Or the highest life expectancy of human beings is 5-7 times of the growth period, and the growth period of human beings is about 20-25 years old, so the highest life expectancy of human beings should be ` 100- 175 years old.

In our country, some people are well-trained in religion and qigong, and some of them really live a long life. Their life span has also exceeded the highest human life span calculated by modern scientists, that is, it has exceeded 100- 175 years, or reached the life expectancy of scientists.

Laozi, the originator of Taoism, lived for about 200 years. Laozi, surnamed Li, is famous for his ears. Legend has it that he was a native of Chu State and a Tibetan keeper of Zhou Dynasty (the official in charge of national archives). According to historical records. It is recorded in Laozi, Zhuangzi and Biographies of China and Korea that "I was built over 60 years old, or over 200 years old, to cultivate Buddhism and raise my life."

Laozi's most famous article, Tao Te Ching, is a masterpiece in the history of China's philosophy and Qigong. It is mentioned that "Tao gives birth to one, life gives birth to two, and three gives birth to ten thousand." This famous saying highly summarizes the law of the occurrence and development of all things in the universe. Laozi is a famous philosopher and thinker in the late Spring and Autumn Period in China, and also a pioneer of Taoism and a master of Qigong in China. Laozi also has special functions, and has trained many students with special functions, which are also recorded in historical materials. At the same time, Lao Tzu is also one of the oldest people in China.

In the Jin Dynasty of Sun Xun, the Taoist school he founded was Jing Ming School, who was well versed in the Taoist "Tianyuan Danfa" and "Yuan Di Danfa". At the same time, he is also a scholar, proficient in magic, theology, astronomy, geography and so on. Legend has it that he can "turn stone into gold" and save the world and people. His main works are Ling Jian Zi and Han Shi Ji. His life span is 136 years (AD 239-374).

Another school of Taoist Inner alchemy, which flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, is the Shi Wen School, and its founder is Chen Chuan. Good at internal and external alchemy, sleeping, secluded valley, etc. , and has a deep research on Yi-ology. His academic thoughts had a far-reaching impact on the Song Dynasty and beyond. Zhou Dunyi, the founder of Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, originated from Chen Chuan, and Shao Kang Festival was passed down by Chen Chuan, who wrote The Imperial Classics. Chen has high attainments in Dan Dao, health preservation and Yi Xue. His life span is also very long, which is 1 18 years (872-989).

The Northern Sect of Neidan Sect of Taoism in China is seven people headed by Wang Zhongyang, who is known as "the Northern Sect of Seven Truths", with an average life expectancy of 65.3 years, which is not too high. However, the life span of the five ancestors in the Southern Song Dynasty was all over 100 years old.

Zhang Sanfeng, a master of Qigong in Yuan Dynasty, lived 160-2 18 years. Lv Dongbin, known as the immortal, lived for more than 200 years. In modern China, Li Qingyuan lived for 256 years (1679- 1935). He is good at martial arts and qigong. Some people say that monk Zhao Hui of the Tang Dynasty in China was the world longevity champion, and he lived for 290 years. His life expectancy exceeds that of Fehm in Britain, who was once considered as one of the longest people in the world. Kahn lived to be 207, and he lived to be 242. According to the chronology of birth and death of eminent monks in past dynasties, "Zhao Hui, male, was born in 526 and died in 8 16 at the age of 290." There is also a record about him in China Celebrity Dictionary: "His surname is Liu, and he was the great-grandson of Wang Yang in the Tang Dynasty, at the age of 290. Guangzhi is a disciple and I don't know where to go. " Is he the oldest person in the world?

According to legend, Peng Zu in ancient China lived over 800 years. I think this is more than just a legend. Peng Zu is recorded in some historical materials in our country, and Peng Zu is recorded in ancient books in our country, saying that he lived for more than 800 years. Ge Hong, a scholar in Jin Dynasty, wrote a biography for Peng Zu. In the second volume of Tai Ping Guang Ji, Ge Hong said in his {Peng Zu Family} that Peng Zu was 767 years old at the end of Yin Dynasty, which aroused great interest of Yin Wang and sent someone to ask him how to live a long life, so Peng Zu made a big talk. Talk about his views on longevity. Peng Zu is very good at qigong and health preservation. He has written works on Qigong, that is, the persuasion methods of Peng Zu's famous long method and Peng Zu. Because Peng Zu is good at Qigong, he has a long life, reaching 800 years, which is a miracle through the ages. So is Peng Zu the oldest person in the world?

According to some documents in China, there are people who live longer than Peng Zu. According to the records in the Five Lights of the Buddhist Calendar in China, monk Zhang Bao lived for 1.072 years, making him the highest birthday girl in the world.

Now when it comes to people who live too long, people often don't believe it. Some people think it's weird or a legend. All the longevity listed above are recorded in ancient documents, so they can't be regarded as legends. Among those who practice qigong in Buddhism and Taoism, there are indeed many people who live long. /kloc-it's not surprising that people over 0/00 years old, and there are many people over 200 years old. Now scientists predict that the average person's maximum life expectancy is between 125- 175 years, which is 5-7 times of a person's maturity, but Li Qingyuan and Zhao Hui have lived for more than 200 years, far exceeding the maximum life expectancy of a person as scientists say. This also shows that Qigong has indeed made a considerable breakthrough in people's life span. There are many valuable experiences worth exploring and studying.

The author believes that religion (mainly Buddhism and Taoism) and qigong play the following roles in people's longevity: First, qigong practitioners and Buddhist and Taoist people attach great importance to self-cultivation by virtue, and advocate doing good deeds to accumulate virtue without harming the interests of others. In fact, one's moral cultivation and world outlook are also closely related to one's longevity. People in ancient times realized the relationship between morality and longevity. Confucius, a great sage in ancient China, put forward the view that "different people have different opinions", and people with moral cultivation often live a long and healthy life. The elderly writers in China and even the world often have many excellent qualities, such as noble character, indifference to fame and fortune, contentment, openness and selflessness, kindness to others and so on. Practitioners of religion and qigong put a person's moral cultivation in the first place, thinking that Gao De Gao De is enough. Morality covers a wide range, from the accurate responsibility of doing things for people to the understanding of the laws of all things in the universe. Only when a person has a correct world outlook can he do things that conform to the laws of nature, and can he achieve the unity of heaven and man and live forever. ( 1)