Life is seventy years old, seventy has reached its limit, the vast majority of people do not live to seventy. Modern times have entered the ageing process.

Mencius said that in an ideal society, "fifty people can wear silk, seventy people can eat meat". Today we are meatless.

The ancients didn't intend to lie, but a faulty mindset allowed them to take false perceptions at face value.

The worship of antiquity is a typical feature of ancient culture. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, which was actually written in the early Han Dynasty, reflects the level of knowledge of the universe, the world and the human body at that time.

Ancient complex, in ancient times is universal, the whole world is so. For example, in Greek mythology, there is a golden age, the silver age, in short, regardless of China and foreign countries, the ancients feel that, in the past, everything is good, now nothing works, nine pounds of old lady, a generation is not as good as a generation. One of the psychological basis of this idea is that, when we were young, our parents took care of everything, do not need us to worry too much, until we grow up, all kinds of troubles on earth, storms and thunders will have to face on our own, childhood is how beautiful ah.

Of course, more than that, it is because knowledge in ancient times progressed and accumulated very slowly, in which case the experience accumulated before is very important. Even if that experience is not so correct, it is better than knowing nothing and being at a loss.

This cultural mentality of worshipping antiquity has probably lasted for tens of thousands of years in human history. The ability of the old men to instruct you when to plant, when to go hunting for wild animals, when to focus on collecting, and when to take shelter from possible disasters was vital to the survival of a tribe or community. Ancient, and thus beautiful and authoritative.

However, with philosophy, and especially with modern science, many of the original "unsolved mysteries" of nature have been solved. After mastering the necessary key methods, knowledge about nature and society, new discoveries have been made, and the accumulation of social wealth has increased or decreased at an unprecedented rate. Ten years have passed since the centuries and millennia of the past, so that since the Renaissance the concept of "modernity" has been invented, that is to say, the world is not progressively degenerate, and antiquity was not sacred and beautiful. Our society is progressing, not regressing. You see, even the word "modern" is actually a "modern" word, haha.

Much of what the ancients said was out of their imagination, that's all. Because of their blind faith in antiquity, the ancients said that the people of old were sincere.

Modern science has to have something to back up its claims. Ancient people honestly dig a hole for me! The hole was dug long ago, are you going to jump or not?

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is the earliest medical text in China, which is based on the theory of Huang Lao Taoism, and establishes various doctrines of Chinese medicine, such as yin and yang, five elements, luck, disease mechanism, pulse, and so on, thus laying the foundation for the understanding of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment. Modern medicine is a comprehensive product, is a long-term medical practice under the accumulation of rich experience and more division of labor refinement, cross-pollination of disciplines to form a comprehensive theoretical system.Then for the understanding of life expectancy, how is it that the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says that people in the ancient times lived long lives, and now people say that people in the ancient times lived very short lives?

Just as comparisons are all relative and conditional, two different statements correspond to different laws of perspective.The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine opens with the words, "All the ancient people were 100 years old.." , and Ogier replied, "those who knowThe law of yin and yang, and in the art of counting, food and drink are in order, living and living in a regular manner, do not make labor, so can form and God, and the end of its days, the degree of a hundred years is to go."Here the people who can live more than a hundred years, refers to the people who know the method of health care. Not all of them were the people who, in the eyes of the Yellow Emperor, "lived among the beasts and animals, moved to avoid the cold, and lived in the shade to avoid the heat." The ancient people of the past.

The first possibility is that it is true that people in ancient times lived long lives because of the unique method of concentrating on the mind and cultivating the body and mind.According to "Laozi Hanfei Liezhuan", "Gai Laozi is more than one hundred and sixty years old, or say more than two hundred years old, in order to cultivate his life by cultivating the way of life." Cover is speculation about the meaning, but the unchanging esteem is Laozi's method of health care and cultivation.

The second possibility is that the ancient people did not live long, and that there were fallacious discrepancies in the historical records, which deified the sages who had made outstanding contributions in the previous life of the ancestors.According to the Western Han Dynasty's Records of the Grand Historian, "When King Mu assumed the throne, the Spring and Autumn Period was already fifty years old. King Mu was fifty-five years old when he collapsed." King Mu of Zhou was fifty-five years old when he assumed the throne and died after fifty years of reigning, with a life expectancy of 105 years. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Bamboo Book of Records reads, "From the time of Zhou's appointment to the hundredth year of King Mu's reign, King Mu did not live to be a hundred years old." The Historical Records of a person of the best learning, although adhering to the spirit of the actual record, but in the book printing is not developed in the era, there will inevitably be a personal idea of imagination mixed in it.

A third possibility is that there was no standardized measure of time and a long lifespan was no more than normal.It is said that Peng Zu, the star of longevity, lived to be 880 years old, but he used the "small flower jia" to calculate his age: 60 days of a jiazi cycle is one year, and if you use 365 days in a year to convert the estimate, Peng Zu was about 140 years old. According to the records, Peng Zu had a calm and steady mind, kept his body pure and nourished his body by refining elixirs such as "Elk Jiao San", so he could live to be 140 years old."Know."Still the most important.

There is also a basis for saying that ancient people had short lifespans, given what they say nowadays.In the later stages of clan alliances, tribes often fought over territory, causing killings and waging war.Where the war spreads, the fields are barren and the starving are everywhere.Civilians died in famines and fires, the population declined in numbers and the quality of life declined.

period of social instability.Diseases were prevalent, and without a high level of medical care, even a common cold, as today, was a very serious illness for people at that time and could easily result in death.So life expectancy has dwindled to fifty years or less.Like Zhuge Liang, such a great man, but also still not the enemy of life geometry, lived fifty-four years old and died.

The short lifespan of the ancient people was the main reason for the harsh environment and low standard of living conditions.In the face of powerful natural disasters, people can only pray to heaven, without high technology in the weak, they even escape efficient transportation is not available.Even Emperor Wu of Han, who was then well-dressed and well-fed, failed to keep up with nutrition compared to the level of production now, and he lived to be seventy-one years old, which was considered a long life at that time.

All in all, from the perspective of life and health, it is possible for human beings to live to be 100 years old or even longer. The length of life is limited by many factors such as socio-economic, medical and health care, and human psychology.

Better yet, let's read the original article first.

Huang Di: I heard that the ancient people, spring and autumn are 100 years old, and the movement does not decline; today's people, half a hundred years and the movement of all the decline. Is the world different? Will people lose it?

Qibo said: the ancient man, its knowers, the law of yin and yang, and in the art of number, food and drink in section, living and living in a regular manner, do not make labor, so can form and God, and the end of their days, the degree of 100 years is gone. Today's people or not, to wine as pulp, to delusion for often, drunk to room, in order to want to exhaust its essence, to dissipate its true, do not know to hold full, from time to time, the Royal God, business fast heart, against the birth of music, living in a disorderly manner, so half a hundred and also decline.

This paragraph is the Huang Di Nei Jing opening paragraph, to be fair, is not a strange God's words, but a kind of simple materialism. And said the ancient people long life, only 100 years old, did not engage in hundreds or even thousands of years old that kind of nonsense. And as to why the life expectancy becomes shorter, the reason given is also that, not observing a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle, one's own death to screw oneself up, and not attributed to the people of the ancient times have a god or a monster. At the same time, it is also implied that if one can adhere to a healthy lifestyle, then the "people of today" (the time when the author wrote the book) can also achieve the lifespan of the ancient people, i.e., about 100 years old.

The short lives of the ancients meant that the average life expectancy was short, not that all people had short lives.

Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, which states thatThe ancient people lived long, not that all ancient people lived longMeaning. In that ancient society with strict classes, the people who wrote the books only cared about the people in the upper class and would not care about the working people at the bottom. At the same time, they would not care about the children who died young. After removing all these factors, only those who had lived longer were cared for.

The Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu wrote the poem "Wine debt is common everywhere, life is seventy years old." But even if 70 years of life is rare, there are still some people who lived long lives in ancient times. These high life expectancy people are the people that the author of Huangdi Neijing is concerned about. As for the whole ancient society, the average life expectancy of the whole population, that is not what he can care about or is willing to care about.

Therefore, from this point of view, there is no substantial conflict between the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, which says that people in ancient times lived long lives, and modern medicine, which says that ancient people lived short lives.

Illustration: average human lifespan over time. Note that this is talking about average life expectancy.

While health and wellness are important, for the nation as a whole, increasing the average life expectancy is also dependent on modern medicine and science and technology. And, of course, peace!

• Public toilets and modern sewage systems increase the average life expectancy of urban populations by 10 to 20 years! And for the countryside, an immediate improvement in health must also start with toilet renovation. Without a clean and hygienic general environment, relying only on individual health care is of little use; when the plague strikes, the whole city flees, and if you don't die from the plague, you will die from the fleeing.
  

• Clean drinking water reduces infant diarrhea, which is the leading cause of infant deaths in third world countries even today.

• Vaccines increase the average life expectancy by 10 to 15 years.

Ancient people must have had short life spans, but the ancients revered ancient concepts and portrayed the past as just a golden age.

According to archaeological discoveries and paleontological studies, the average age of Peking Man in the Paleolithic Era was only about 15 years old; and the average age of Yangshao Man in the Neolithic Era was only about 30 years old. Since then, with the progress of society, science in diet, and improvement in medical conditions, the life span of human beings has naturally become longer and longer. By 1978, the retirement age was set by law at 60 for men and 55 for women. However, with the aging phenomenon worsening today, officials are again calling for a delay in retirement. It is evident that there is no problem with people living longer and longer.

However, the ancients always had a mentality of respect for the ancients, which was actually normal, because in the clan society of the pre-Qin era, there was no concept of private education, and knowledge was often passed on from generation to generation. Therefore, the ancients worshipped their ancestors very much, and the political ideology of the Zhou people was to "honor the heavens, respect the ancestors and protect the people". Confucianism, in particular, was very eager for the ancient times and portrayed the ancient period as a golden age. Just take a look at the Records of the Grand Historian (史记-五帝本纪), and you will realize that the five emperors lived to be more than a hundred years old, which is quite a long time in the primitive society. Taoism, on the other hand, traces the story to an even more distant time, and no one can falsify it anyway.

For a medical book like Huangdi Neijing, of course, it is not a work of the Huangdi period, but a work of the Western Han Dynasty of ancient times, using the form of a dialog between Huangdi and Qibe to elaborate the author's medical ideas. Naturally, then, the depictions of ancient people in it are all very long-lived. There was also a long-lived ancient figure circulating in the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, namely Peng Zu, who was said to have lived to be more than 800 years old. This is because this person made his appearance from the Yao and Shun period, and he still existed in the Shang Dynasty. In fact, we know today that Peng Zu is nothing more than the ruler of the state of Peng Zu, which was later known as Peng Cheng, or Xuzhou in today's Jiangsu Province.

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Because before ancient times people did not have a unified understanding of the standard of longevity, so a lot of ancient records say that fifty years old for the old man, if you live to more than seventy he thought that longevity. Therefore, ancient and modern people have different perceptions.

Then Ming Renzong, 48 years old, Ming Xuanzong, 38 years old, Ming Yingzong, 38 years old, Ming Xianzong, 41 years old, Ming Xiaozong, 36 years old, Ming Wuzong, 31 years old, Ming Muzong, 36 years old, and so on. Don't tell me all the doctors are fake.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is correct in saying that the ancients lived long lives, and moderns are right in saying that the ancients lived short lives.

Dating of the Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine)

The theoretical basis of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is the theory of the five elements. The description and application of the five elements theoretical system in the book has been perfected. The maturity and perfection of the five elements theory is attributed to Zou Yan. Zou Yan (324 B.C.~250 B.C.) , was living in the late Warring States period. By this inference, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine was written in the period from the late Warring States period to the early Han Dynasty.

Who is served by the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

During the period from the early Han Dynasty to the late Warring States period, China was in the white-hot phase of war. From the nobles down to the commoners, they were all involved in endless wars.

In the Cold War era, the death rate was fantastically high. In society as a whole, everyone had today but no tomorrow. It was easy to develop a "today's wine, today's drunk" mentality, especially among the nobility. No matter how rich a person is, when he dies, he has nothing left. Therefore, the aristocrats spent as much money as they could and lived a life of indulgence.

Just as today, higher medicine serves the rich. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine serves this group of drunken aristocrats of the upper class.

(Not that I am talking nonsense, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is indeed for the aristocracy. The book has said, "People in this day and age ...... get drunk to enter the room." In the ancient times when people could not even eat enough food, those who could drink and have intercourse every day were not aristocrats.)

Correctness of the exposition of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine

From the time when the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine was written, it can be seen that the "people of the present time" in the book refers to the aristocrats who were crazy and drunken from the late Warring States period to the early Han Dynasty. The "people of the past" refer to the aristocrats of the period before the Spring and Autumn Period, when the world was relatively peaceful.

The "Ancient Ones" had fewer wars and a relatively peaceful mindset, so they did not indulge in lust or drunkenness, and lived a relatively healthy lifestyle. They were also well-fed and clothed, and had no problems with food and nutrition. Plus they were nobles, no one bullied them and they were in a good mood. In this way, they would naturally live a long life.

Although the "people of today" are also nobles and live in abundance, they have been at war for many years, and when they are not at war, they indulge themselves wildly. However, they fought wars for many years, and when they were not at war, they indulged themselves wildly, and overindulgence is very harmful to the body. Therefore, they either died on the battlefield, or they made their own deaths and died of "indulgence". It is very difficult to live a long life.

Thus, it seems that the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is correct.

Current Medical Discourse

Ancient people, there is no understanding of bacteria and viruses, can do nothing about infectious diseases, organ transplants and so on, even more can not do. Therefore, even the aristocrats did not have the current medical conditions, life expectancy is naturally not as long as modern people.

The life expectancy of the commoners was even shorter, overworked, malnourished, with no warmth to protect them from the cold, and often unable to afford medication when they were sick, the life expectancy was even shorter.

Therefore, the discourse on human life expectancy, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, and modern medicine are correct. (This article is original, the picture is from the Internet.)

I've discovered the brutal truth of human history.

Ten thousand years is an epoch, humanity is banished from Earth, and extraterrestrial civilizations come to destroy the Earth every 10,000 years, roughly by launching asteroids and other destructive impact-type weapons into the Earth at regular intervals. This could be on a 10,000 year cycle. Most of the myths occur within the first 1,000 years of the New Era, and the mythological characters are actually survivors of the previous Era, with some of the civilizations of the previous Era remaining, such as weapons, ships, technology, and so on. These mythological characters are the top of the society at the end of the previous epoch, they can survive because they can finally take refuge on the ark and so on, the most important thing for human beings to do in each epoch, to build the ark, to migrate to Mars, of course, only the best and the most powerful people can get on the ark, human beings have gone through more than 3,000 epochs, and the result is more or less the same every time, the human beings have a mission, but the extraterrestrial banishers don't want the human beings to come close to the The truth, 10,000 years will come to destroy once, the biggest mission of mankind may be to save the DNA and the unknown domain of the brain, the extraterrestrial civilization should be able to project, every 10,000 years in the epoch, mankind can be rushed out, to keep mankind on the earth forever, with asteroid collision is the most appropriate, not only will not be extinguished, but also to continue to the next epoch, the human nature in the disobedience and the fight for the upper reaches of the world, is because only to become a human being to be squeezed on the ark in the thousands of disasters, has been written. Thousands of catastrophes have been written into the genes of the survivors. The Classic of Mountains and Seas is a book of geography handed down from the last epoch, and seven thousand years have passed since our epoch. The pyramids were built to escape the Great Flood, the Mayans, the Egyptians, probably stayed alive that way, the moon was used by extraterrestrial civilizations to locate impact points, to detect the capacity of the oceans and the extent of civilization on Earth. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Personally believe that the author of the book is mainly from the aspect of the mind, said the ancients were materialistic, utilitarian, war, etc. lost their minds, the ancient people in the world of peace and calm, so the ancients are often sick in the body, and the ancient people sick in the body surface, so the longevity. There is another point, the longevity of people and the changes in the yin and yang of heaven and earth are actually related to the proportion of the level of time, the further back in time people should be the more longevity, just as growing in the north and growing in the south of people the same reason. So there is some truth in this statement. Only heaven knows whether one will live longer or not. Ancient times and ancient times are two different concepts.

I am a Chinese medicine practitioner Er Yang, and I have been reading the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine over and over again over the years. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine begins by saying that people in the ancient times went away when they were a hundred years old, and that people in this day and age, or else they also use wine as a syrup and delusion as a commonplace, etc.

Said the people of the ancient world, its knowers. All that time were lamenting the people of the past.

Can live to hundreds of years old, this is also the end of the day, that is, the fate of God, normal people can live to 100 years old is almost normal circumstances. In the yellow emperor asked qi bo that time, he lamented the ancient people that can live to 100 years old, and we now people are not live to 100 years old, half a hundred began to decline, this is why?

In the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon, Huang Di asked Qibo, at that time he was lamenting that it was difficult for people in that era to live to be hundreds of years old, at this time, Qibo came to answer, why?

Qibo said that people in the ancient times knew the way of yin and yang and the art of counting. And the spirit of tranquility and nothingness, etc., to maintain a healthy state of health, this state can live to 100 years.

For example, Sun Simiao of the Tang Dynasty, who was a typical figure of this kind, was one who knew that it was possible to live to be hundreds of years old if one knew and was able to maintain one's health.

In the era of the Yellow Emperor, he lamented that people's hearts were not ancient, that is, at that time, people used wine as a syrup to delusion as a normal ah, into the room excessive, etc., in fact, similar to the modern people.

That's why you can see that nowadays it's already very impressive for people to live up to 80 or 90 years old, and it's very rare for them to reach hundreds of years old. It can be said that hundreds of years of age is an expectation of ours, or it is the people in the ancient times who have reached such a state, and those who know how to maintain health and cultivate their lives can reach it.

What about the majority of people, he will not take care of his health, ah, even less practice, even more indulgence, rarely live to this number of hundred years.

Even now, with very advanced information and modern technology, the average life expectancy of people has increased, but there are still not many people who can routinely live to be hundreds of years old.

The Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon talks about the ancient people, the people who lived in accordance with the laws of nature, and examines why these people who lived long lives could live to be a hundred years old.

Modern medicine is talking about most usual people, the average life expectancy, two different concepts.