Li Ching-Yuen
Chinese martial artist and herbalist who claimed extreme longevity
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A Chinese herbalist and martial artist who died in 1933 claiming to have been born in 1677—a span of 256 years that gerontologists dismiss as myth, but which keeps his name in circulation as longevity's most audacious fable.
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Li Ching-Yuen worked as an herbalist, martial artist, and tactical advisor in China, occupations that carried him through a life whose true length remains unknown. He alleged his birth year was 1677, a claim that would place his death on 6 May 1933 at an age of 256. Gerontologists regard the figure as myth—no evidence supports the span, and his actual age was never determined. What persists is the story itself: a man who either lived impossibly long or told the century's most enduring lie about time.
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