20/10/2025
The oldest person in history... 256 year old... Li Ching Yuen.
If you want to be healthy and live to a hundred... do Qigong.
Li Ching Yuen... reportedly lived to 256 years and is possibly the oldest person in history.
The secret to a healthy and long life he said was due to his daily practice of Qigong, meditation and a diet consisting mainly of herbs… “One’s state of mind plays a large role in the quality as well as the length of one’s life, one can live at least a century by attaining inner calmness.
Li began his career as a herbalist at just 10 years of age, and for the rest of his life had a diet consisting mostly of herbs, goji berries, lingzi, wild ginseng, he shoo wu, gotu kola, and rice wine.
At the age of 71, in 1749, he joined the Chinese army as a martial arts instructor. It’s hard to believe that a 71 year old man would be able to engage in such a physically grueling activity, but Li was in far superior shape than his younger trainees.
He was a beloved member of his community, and reportedly married 23 times, fathering some 200 children in the process.
But supposedly, he wasn’t even the oldest man that he knew, which is nearly impossible to believe.
One of his disciples claimed that Li once met a 500 year old man that taught him important Qigong exercises and showed him a special herb-rich diet that can help people live extraordinary long lives.