Re: 256
Li's longevity claim could likely never be firmly established, even if
it were true. The census documentation of rural 17th-century China is so
sparse by comparison to modern records as to make any sort of successful
investigation improbable. Li's history follows the course of other
Chinese longevity myths, such as that of Chen Jun's 443 years and
extreme fecundity. Given the hyperbolic claim, and its similarity to
well-discounted longevity myths, experts universally discount his
legendary age. The possibility that he was in truth a Supercentenarian
of some sort can be neither established nor definitively disconfirmed.
By contrast, the longest confirmed, documentable lifespan is of a French
woman, Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years,
less than half of the alleged lifespan of Yuen.
В Втр, 06/04/2010 в 22:20 +0900, Асадулин Вадим пишет:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Li_chingYuen.jpg
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> Born 1677 (purportedly) Szechuan, China
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> Died May 6, 1933 (aged 256?) Szechuan, China
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen
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