To make you think…
“We never know. There is no evidence against it, and all evidence existing are quite flawless.”…
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Li-Ching-Yuen-lived-to-be-over-256-years-old?top_ans=52648975
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If this story were true, there would have to be some practitioner of his or even another Chinese medicine practitioner who had stumbled upon his secret recipe for longevity over the centuries. Even someone else making it to 120 would be enough to interest me.
If such a mixture of lifestyle and Chinese medicine existed, the odds of being able to replicate it where hundreds of thousands (or millions over the years?) of people have failed would be akin to winning the Lotto repeatedly. I’m not going to focus my longevity journey on the equivalent of a lotto ticket.
I think it’s best to treat this story as an oddity and as reliable as the tabloid alien or ghost-spotting stories in the SUN. Although I would like to think that someone here could make it to 250. Maybe @desertshores or @Agetron can do it? 
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Joseph, (and everyone else too) please don’t post unscientific, unsupported claims like this here; we’re a science oriented site. This type of thing is just a waste of everyone’s time.
None of that “evidence” that person posts is good evidence, its all hearsay.
- In 1827 the Chinese government congratulated the man on his 150th birthday (really, now much verification do you think they did to check the accuracy of his age? No sign of any validation, birth certificate, etc.?)
- “All lof the senior locals that lived next to Li Ching-Yuen have mentioned that many of their ancestors have seen Li.” (really - source? How was recorded, what were their names and ages, … this is all hearsay… )
Please use your critical thinking skills: Critical thinking - Wikipedia
There are lots of “claims” like this, but no good evidence: Longevity myths - Wikipedia
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Totally untrue, let me pick the family documents (pedigree) as a counter example…
Many Taiwan aboriginals got pedigree linked to mainland China, why? Qing dynasty government offered tax cut, Han people benefits, if the aboriginals were willing to place themselves under some Han people’s pedigree, therefore, many aboriginals becomes Han people, origins from mainland China.
Taiwanese aboriginals are Austronesian people, Qing dynasty officers had greatly massacred them, tried to eliminate them, on the market you can found barbarians paste, which was the the soup dry concentration of long time boiling of aboriginals dead body.
It’s natural that aboriginals tried to pretend themselves as Chinese by clothing the same, even place themselves under Chinese pedigree…