Talk:Li Ching-Yuen
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[edit] Category:Chinese folklore?
You may have fair doubts about his real age, but there are references enough about him to put him out from the "Category:Chinese folklore".
--Braxilian 02:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tone
I believe that the tone of this article is not quite as formal/professional as it should be. I have attempted to alleviate this somewhat, but I think that somebody with better copyediting skills needs to work on it.
--Dylan anglada (talk) 21:11, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Inconsistency?
There seems to be a fairly obvious inconsistency here. Time Magazine and the New York Times state that he claimed to have been born in 1736, but the article says 1677. Is there any explanation for this? I feel like maybe it should be mentioned in the article.
--Nick Kalivoda 01:49, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Question about use of fo-ti-tieng herb
"Jeanne Rose, author of the pop herb book of the 1970's, Herbs & Things (written when she was bed-ridden for several months with not much else to do after a car accident) listed fo-ti-tieng in the book. Under that heading, she told the story of Li Chung Yun (his actual name was Li Ch'ing Yuen; see Figure 2.), a Chinese herbalist who lived to the age of 256 years (he is the one in the newspaper article), presumably because he drank a daily tea made from, as she describes it, "an herb called Fo-Ti-Tieng." Thus, the sales pitch for a newly devised, caffeine-containing herb mixture becomes a part of modern herbal lore: the strange formulation invented just a couple of years earlier is ignored, and a new herb is invented. In the story of Li Ch'ing Yuen related by Da Liu (17), his longevity is attributed, primarily, to consuming lycium fruits and, especially, to practicing certain exercises of a type similar to Tai Ch'i Ch'uan. "
http://www.therootofthematter.ca/cgi-bin/itsmy/go.exe?page=28&domain=12&webdir=therootofthematter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.227.223.164 (talk) 11:52, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
