Woman Marks 126th Birthday in China
PEKING — A rural laborer in China’s southern Yunnan province celebrated her 126th birthday recently, the official China News Service reported.
The woman,Wang Damei of Baha township was born July 6, 1860, the dispatch said. She has been blind since 1971 but can walk, hear and is healthy, the news service said.
She has been a laborer all her life and has a regular daily routine. Her diet includes rice, vegetables, fresh fish and a little bit of rice wine at meals, the report said. She was married at age 18 and had three sons and two daughters, four of whom are dead. Her youngest son is 87, the report said.
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