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Cao Cao 's View of Health

      Cao Cao was a famous politician, strategist and poet in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He wrote the "turtle though Shou" is a good poem to encourage people, especially the "old and stable, aiming at thousands of miles, martyrs twilight years, Zhuangxin endless.Contract period, not only in the days, Yang Yi blessing, Yongnian "Famous, not only to express his lofty aspirations of Cao Cao, but also for the health of insight is also very insightful and unique, especially worthy of learning in the elderly. 
      Cao Cao was 63 when writing this poem, but he is not afraid of the threat of aging, that people to the elderly, should still be ambitious, not pessimistic depressed, but should gallop like a horse like a thousand miles, work hard and make a difference, and hold Determined to achieve the great cause of reunification of the Central Plains. 
      Cao Cao is an ancient materialist, he never believed in superstition and other superstition. Such as Cao Cao in the beginning of the poem wrote, "Although the turtle, lonely, even when the real", although the turtle to recognize the longevity, but life is the end of the day, and people even more so. He did not believe that the length of life is determined by the "fate", completely subject to the laws of nature (days) dominated. He believes that human life and personal mental and emotional closely related, if people can maintain an optimistic and open-minded good state of mind and attention to health care, can achieve health and longevity. 

      Cao Cao 's concept of health is positive, progressive, and full of vibrant optimism. He is not pessimistic, there is no Yilaomailao and fear of the old fear, but not depression decadent thinking. This and Cao Cao's many scholars and scholars of the times to pursue fame and fortune, indulge in sensuality, that "life is not a stone, how can longevity test? Suddenly with the materialization, honor that treasure" and other negative pleasure life compared to not only is unique, and obviously improving. It is precisely because he has "old and stable, aiming at thousands of miles," the ambition and optimism open-minded, and thus promote his physical and mental health. Although he was only 65 years old, but in the "people live seventy ancient and rare" era, and live in troubled times, and years of battle, can be considered a longevity.