Which places in the world are nicknamed the "Land of Longevity"?

Bama Yao Autonomous County, known as the "Hometown of Longevity in the World and the Holy Land of Chinese People", is located in northwest Guangxi and has a population of 250,000. Local officials said that in Bama, there are many old people who are as talkative and capable as Grandma Huang. The 107-year-old Huang Buxin can still go up the mountain to collect firewood, and the 103-year-old Mother Huang can still thread a needle and thread freely...

In history, countless long-lived old people have performed the story of life here. Miracle. Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty once wrote a poem to celebrate the birthday of a 142-year-old Yao man named Lan Xiang in Bama. In 1898, Emperor Guangxu ordered the Admiral of Guangxi to present a birthday plaque to Deng Chengcai in Pamana Tao Township, with the congratulatory message "Only the benevolent live longer". The latest statistics show that there are 3,160 elderly people in Bama between the ages of 80 and 99, and 76 people over 100 years old.

Bama’s legend of immortality attracts curious people, experts and scholars from all over the world. Now, more than 200 elderly people from other places come to stay here every year like migratory birds, and it has become a unique tourist attraction in Bama. On September 21, the Bama International Symposium on the Secret of Longevity Research and Longevity Industry Development was held, once again attracting more than 100 longevity experts from Russia, Canada, and Japan, as well as well-known domestic scholars.

At the seminar, Professor Jin Zongzhe, PhD in Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, said: "Bama's water has four distinctive characteristics. It is weakly alkaline water, low in oxidation and reduction, small molecular cluster water, and rich in water. Minerals; the air in Bama is particularly fresh, and the negative oxygen ions in the air in Bama are particularly high, with an average of more than 10,000 per cubic centimeter, and as high as 90,000 in some places; the elderly in Bama live a regular life, have a cheerful personality, and work every day Exercise, etc., all contribute to longevity."

Experts point out that the study of Bama's longevity phenomenon can draw lessons from the healthy survival of the entire human race. They believe that factors such as air and sunlight cannot be changed, but diet, lifestyle, psychological factors, environmental factors, etc. can be changed. The health regimen of the long-lived elderly people in Bama is a unique "recipe". They mainly eat low fat, low animal protein, low salt, low calories, high vitamins, and high fiber. For example, they often eat pearl corn, oily fish, Bitter vegetables and other foods. Professor Yao Dingshan from the Shanghai Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "The secret of Bama's elders can be simply summarized in three words as 'degree, tolerance, and spirit', that is, eating moderately, thinking simply, and being tolerant of everything."