Bai Juyi himself is also an alchemist, after taking the elixir, not only did he not soar to become an immortal, but let his body deteriorate, and his spirit was a little trance, and many of his friends also suffered heavy losses because of taking the elixir, some died, and some of their bodies deteriorated.

In his later years, Bai Juyi wrote a poem about the past, the content is, think about the old in his spare time, think about the old as he is now, and return to the spring. If you retreat and take sulfur, you will not be cured of any illness. The micro refining autumn stone, the body is not old. Du Zi has a Dan trick, and he breaks the bloody body all day long. Cui Jun boasted of the medicinal power, and he was not clothed in winter. Either sick or violently, but not middle-aged. If you don't take it, your life will be delayed. Moreover, when he is young and strong, he is also driven by lust. But they don't know meat and blood, but they don't know mercury or lead. Hunger comes to swallow hot things, thirst comes to drink cold springs. Poetry and five Tibetan gods, wine and three dantians. With the destruction of the sun, so far coarse complete. The teeth are not missing, and the limbs are still light. The seventh rank has been opened, and he is still sleeping peacefully after being fed. And into the cup, the rest of the day.

The retreat mentioned in this poem is the famous poet Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty, who was ill because of taking pills, and the Weizhi mentioned in the text is the famous poet Yuan Zhi of the Tang Dynasty, who lost his life because of his obsession with alchemy.

Du Zi is naturally the famous poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty, also because of his obsession with elixir, he never eats meat food, Cui Jun is urging Yuanliang, and he is also Bai Juyi's friend.

These people are all obsessed with the elixir, which has led to extremely serious consequences, basically all of them died in middle age, none of them were able to break through middle age, and Bai Juyi's body was also deteriorating, so he wrote this poem to warn future generations not to take useless elixir, it is better to live well, so that they may be able to live a little longer.

These people who take the elixir are almost all celebrities, and they are the most outstanding talents in the Tang Empire, and even if ordinary people want to take it, they probably don't have the financial resources.

People who take the elixir and die early have it in all dynasties and generations, and the people of the latter dynasty do not learn the lessons of the previous dynasty at all, of course, it cannot be said that they deliberately do not absorb it, but they are swayed by their own desires, when they are young, they may not care about the elixir, and they feel that it is a meaningless false thing, but as they get older, their bodies will always show a downward trend, which is the so-called aging.

People are greedy for life, especially the rich and resourceful class, but also greedy for life, they are very eager to be forever young, always full of vitality, this desire is extremely strong, so that some warlocks take advantage of the aristocratic class's desire for immortality, let them take the elixir, let them believe that as long as they take the elixir, they can make themselves immortal, live forever in this world.

The emperor has the most kinds of wealth, so the emperor is the one who hopes that he can live forever, and he is also the most deceived person.

The Egyptian pharaoh was naturally the same, in order to be able to live forever in the world, in order to be able to regain his life after 300 years, he spent a huge amount of manpower, material and financial resources to build the world-famous pyramids, but his dream will never come true, because all this is illusory, all false things.

Since ancient times, many Ming monarchs in China have been destroyed on the pills, and there are many emperors, at the beginning, they insisted on not touching the pills, but after they got old, they began to believe in the pills, I don't know if it was because they were confused.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, has always believed that the elixir is a deception of the world, and it must not be trusted, he also said that Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is still a fairy, in order to seek longevity, fatigue spirit, and have nothing to gain, so that he can move this heart to try to govern, and the world is unreasonable, that is, he shows that he does not believe in the set of immortals, but in his later years, he also committed the same problem, favored Zhou Dianxian and other Taoist priests, and began to take various elixirs, it is believed that taking pills is one of the reasons for Zhu Yuanzhang's accelerated death.

Zhu Yuanzhang's son, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, also caused his early death because of taking pills, and there were even more emperors behind, everyone wanted to be promoted to become emperors, but everyone died faster because of taking pills.

The emperor in the back, watching the emperor in front die because of taking the pill, but he didn't care about it at all, didn't learn a lesson at all, and continued to take the pill, causing generations of emperors to die early one by one, which can be described as a tragedy.

Is there an emperor in history who doesn't believe in the elixir at all, of course there is, that is Emperor Kangxi, on the way to the south, someone dedicated to Kangxi's alchemy and health secretary, and wanted to invite pets, but was scolded by Kangxi, it can be seen that Kangxi does not believe in the theory of the elixir to continue his life at all, which is very rare.

Of course, there are more health preservation methods in later generations, which simply subvert people's cognition, everyone knows that the way of health preservation is nothing more than animal maintenance, quiet recuperation, medicine and food maintenance, etc., but in the Chinese Empire in later generations, some people actually made a lot of very strange health preservation techniques, such as hand therapy, drinking water therapy, halogen therapy, sheep intestine burial method, climbing turtle therapy, and even, there is a more crazy chicken blood therapy.

The so-called chicken blood is to use a syringe to inject the blood of the little rooster into the human body, so as to play a role in health preservation and treatment.

This great god is a doctor in Shanghai Yongan cotton mill, he gave himself a shot of fresh chicken blood in public, after that, less than three hours to feel hungry, at noon ate eight taels of rice, this practice of using their own body to do experiments, quickly dispelled the patient's doubts, from one o'clock in the afternoon, there are more than 40 people played chicken blood, some cough frequently, five minutes after the fight to heal, some wheezing for a few months can not sleep, after playing chicken blood, that night to sleep very sweet, some stomach pain more than once, after playing chicken blood does not hurt, It's amazing.

Of course, these are all false situations, they do not exist at all, there is no reason at all, they are eliminated after ten months, and after that there is no one to fight again.

No matter how crazy the various health regimens are, they all reflect the human desire for life, the fear of death and time, the richer and happier the person, the higher the desire for life, the stronger the desire for immortality, and thus unconsciously fall into the trap of the warlock.

In ancient times, because only the rich and noble class of people can enjoy a rich standard of living, so only they will have the energy and financial resources to pursue the so-called art of longevity, and in the later generations of economic development, because almost everyone can eat enough, therefore, the pursuit of the art of longevity, people have become more and more, many retired old people, are pursuing the way of longevity, and this has become a cash cow for many criminals, a large number of health companies, see the elderly desire for longevity, A large number of very ordinary nutritional products have been produced, but they boast that they can prolong life, so that many elderly people have spent all their savings for many years, and there is no way to treat them once they get sick, because the money is used to buy useless health products, where will there be money to see a doctor.

The most important thing for people is to know the destiny of heaven, to understand how long they can live, to know that human beings can live for about a hundred years at most, or even only a few decades, and people will grow old and die, and they cannot force themselves to live forever, let alone pursue immortality at all costs.

After Ang Lee left the pyramid, he thought about a lot of questions in his mind, from ancient and modern China and abroad, from the pharaoh's desire to be reborn after three hundred years, to the fear of death of the wealthy class, and thus to think of many ridiculous stories.

People are sometimes extremely stupid, stupid even can't believe themselves, stupid people in later generations, feel that they can definitely surpass this stupid person, just like a street vendor, when talking about the ignorance of the ancient emperor, he is ashamed to tell the people around him that if he can go to ancient times to be the emperor, he must be much smarter than the incompetent emperor, and he will definitely be able to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and he will be able to flatten the whole world.

In fact, of course, it will not be so simple, when an emperor has to consider all aspects of the problem, to know how to balance the interests of all parties, a careless may cause a crisis in the imperial court, and even, the throne can not be saved, and it is not a problem to die and destroy the country.

Some people will think, how can emperors and celebrities be so stupid, how can they not understand that people's lifespan is only a few decades, and the previous emperors have been killed by the elixir, why do the later emperors still take this harmful elixir? How can you be so stupid?

If you think about it carefully, this is a bit incredible, but this is because many descendants are very ordinary people, they don't have many things, and their desires are naturally relatively limited, and the ancient emperors have supreme rights and inexhaustible glory and wealth, and the wealth they have is too much, so they are naturally very reluctant to give up, let them give up everything they don't come by, which makes them too painful.

For example, the famous Qin Shi Huang, who has the luxurious Afang Palace, owns the whole world, has the best gold and silver jewelry in the world, has the most beautiful group of women in the whole world, has the most delicious food, and has the ability to put others to death at any time, all of this will end with the passing of his life, and his heart will inevitably be very unwilling, he finally unified the six countries, and should always enjoy this glory, how can he lose all this?

Therefore, he has a very strong desire to live a little longer, and even live forever between this heaven and earth, and dominate the world forever, and this desire is unimaginable for an ordinary person, after all, ordinary people will not have all this, ordinary people have nothing, it is not easy to support themselves, where do you dare to think about immortality, and you don't even have time to think about this problem, after all, time and energy are used to work to support your family, how can you have spare time to think about immortality.

In addition, people who are happy and proud of living are bound to be greedy for life, while people who are more miserable and frustrated in life do not have such a strong desire to be greedy, they are too tired to live, and they want to take a break and rest forever.

For example, the delayed retirement in later generations, many people who are engaged in more difficult occupations have a very desperate heart when they hear the news, while those who usually hardly have to work are very happy, hoping that they can work until they are 100 years old, and serve the poor people forever, and realize that it is not ordinary.

Why is someone's consciousness so high? Is it that when they get older, they don't work hard, they don't want to go back to live in their old age, they really serve the people wholeheartedly, this is obviously unconvincing, they don't have to work at all, they just need to spend some energy to command.

Because they don't have to work very hard, they naturally have no opinion on delaying retirement, anyway, it is to come and see every day, command a subordinate person, and let them be responsible for the work, so that life is more regular, it is good for longevity, if you are in a bad mood, you can also teach your subordinates a hard lesson, so that you can vent your anger, and it is still good for longevity.

Of course, these are the more secondary reasons, the most important reason is that once they retire, the right in their hands is gone, and no one will pay attention to them in the future, so that they will live a more aggrieved life, and if they have been in the post, they can have the rights in their hands for a longer time, so that they can do things for many people and receive certain benefits from them.

Anyway, in any unit, the leaders of the larger grades are the group that is taken care of, and their work will definitely not be very hard, and any dirty work will be handed over to young people to do, and they are only responsible for directing and guiding, not too easy.

Ancient emperors are even more so, as long as they are in the position of the emperor, they can enjoy everything, especially many more powerful emperors, they can be emperors with ease, and hand over the harder work to the ministers to complete, and they themselves only deal with the most difficult problems, and the rest of the time, you can go to the backyard comfortably to find fun, don't live too comfortably.

And as long as the emperor can live forever, then this kind of life can continue forever, so that he can always live easily and comfortably, and the emperor naturally hopes so, so that some warlocks who use deception as a means of survival will begin to instill ecstasy soup into the emperor, and they will tell the emperor that as long as they take these elixirs, they can make people immortal, so that the emperor who is eager for immortality can easily be fooled, and they themselves can also obtain huge practical benefits through this process, Not only can you increase your income, but also greatly improve your social status, so as to seek greater and greater economic benefits for yourself, and become a parasite of the whole society, and this is not only the emperor, but also many ignorant people.