The old lady looked at the old man in the portrait and murmured: "The ancestor's real name is Meng Sheng, whose courtesy name is Changming. He is from Chang'an. He was born in the first year of Linde in the Tang Dynasty, which is 664 AD. Later, he began to practice for immortality.
, so he called himself Changsheng layman and changed his name to Meng Changsheng. Meng Laozu is the honorific title given to him by our Jiang family."
"Meng Changsheng..." Ye Chen muttered. He had never heard of this name, but he was not too surprised.
The painting itself seems to be very old, and the old lady's family has inherited it for 1,600 years. It is not surprising that the person in the painting is an ancient person from the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, the old lady said again: "When Meng Laozu was young, he was a Jinshi in high school and an official in the court. But later, he accidentally got the opportunity to practice, so he resigned from the official position and came here with his wife and children to devote himself to practice. But his wife
Not long after arriving here, my children died of colds, leaving him alone to continue practicing."
"Meng Laozu practiced here for decades. It was not until the 14th year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, that is, 755 AD, that he temporarily left this place and traveled down the mountain."
When Ye Chen heard this, he was a little surprised and said: "In 755 AD, Patriarch Meng was already over ninety years old at that time..."
"Yes." The old lady replied: "But according to the memories of my ancestors, when he met Meng Laozu in the fifteenth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, that is, in 756 AD, Meng Laozu looked like the one in the painting.
He doesn’t look like an old man who is nearly a hundred years old.”
Ye Chen looked at the painting again and couldn't help but marvel.
The old man in this painting is skinny but strong in spirit. In that era, the average life expectancy was only over 50 years old, and the old man in his 50s should probably look older than the old man in his 70s or 80s today.
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Therefore, under the background of that era, the person in this painting looks to be in his forties, which is equivalent to a spiritual old man in his sixties now.
But when the other party is over ninety years old, he still looks like this, which proves that the other party has indeed mastered spiritual energy!
Otherwise, even if he accidentally obtained one or two rejuvenation pills, considering the background of the times and the average life expectancy, it would be difficult for him to live to such a long age.
At this time, Ye Chen remembered the old lady's previous self-introduction, so he asked her: "Grandma Jiang, when we met in Mexico, you once said that your ancestors practiced medicine for generations, and it was not until the Anshi Rebellion that the inheritance of medical skills was discontinued. Is that right?
What happened when your ancestor met this Patriarch Meng?"
"Yes." The old lady nodded and said: "In 756 AD, at the height of the Anshi Rebellion, An Lushan occupied Chang'an and started the first year of Shengwu. My ancestor, his parents, and grandfather originally lived in Chang'an. His
My grandfather and father were both imperial doctors in the imperial court. They escaped before An Lushan occupied Chang'an and went south. However, they encountered rebels nearby. The rebels killed all the ancestors' relatives. At the critical moment, it was Meng Laozu who fought all the way.
My ancestor was just six years old that year when he was saved from the rebel sword by killing him with a sword."
Ye Chen suddenly realized: "So your ancestors survived, but their medical skills were lost, right?"
"Yes." The old lady nodded slightly and added: "At that time, all the medical classics passed down by our ancestors were included in the accompanying luggage. It is said that there were at least three or five boxes. But at the critical moment, the ancestor's father met Meng
The ancestor fought all the way and stuffed a genealogy and two phoenix bone rattan bracelets into his arms. Then his father burned all the medical classics with kerosene. Since then, the Jiang family's medical skills have been lost...