According to archives of several prestigious publications, including Time Magazine and New York Times, Li Ching-Yuen, a Chinese man who died in 1933, would have lived up to the fabulous age of 256 years, during which he buried 23 wives and had 180 survivors.
This is the man who lived 256 years?

Although the man claimed to have been born in 1736 and that he lived 197 years, the dean of the University Minkuo of 1930, Wu Ching-Chien, claimed that he found records of that Li was born, in fact, in 1677. Also in the archives of the Imperial Government of China there are documents that attest that the man was officially welcomed by the authorities for reaching the age of 150 years and for the 200 years.

About the first part of the life of Li Ching-Yuen know is very little. It certainly was born in that province Sinchuan and the first hundred years and has spent a leacuri selling traditional Chinese. In an interview conducted in 1927, the man claimed that his diet is based largely on rice and wine and that prior to complete 100 years became a protégé patriciate Wu Pei-fu, in order to provide the secret a long life. Subsequently, after the death of his protector continued to sell medical products tradiţională.În photograph made in 1928, features typical man betray a person aged 60 years.

`Keep a quiet heart, sit like a seated turtles, go nimble as a dove and sleep like a dog` was the advice of Li Ching-Yuen for those wishing to achieve a long life.

The old person in the world that we have certain information was Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment, who departed life in 1997 at the age of 122 years, a single performance in the Annals of modern medicine. However, if information about Li Ching-Wuen would prove true, we witness a new record, more than double that currently recognized.