Sushi is a famous politician and man of letters in the Northern Song Dynasty. When you come to learn Chinese in China, you must have learned some of his poetry. Even though he had tough experience in his life, he lived a long life because he attached much importance about the health keeping and had his own ideas in health keeping.

Su believed that the regular diet is the basic condition for people to keep healthy. If you go to school to study Chinese in China, teachers may tell you that he proposed to eat less than you want, keep a vegetarian diet and eat regularly, which are the most important thing in the ideas in health keeping. Some of the foreign students who study Mandarin in China may know there are three dishes in Su’s meal, one meat, one vegetable plate and one soup. He never ate as much as he wanted to eat.

It is important for the foreign students who learn Chinese in China to know Su held the opinion that cleansing one‘s heart and limiting one‘s desires is also the key factor of longevity. This point is learned by many people even in modern society.