| Zhou Yunmei | |
 Zhou Yunmei on her 109th birthday in 2007. | |
| Birth: | 18 February 1898 Jiangsu Province, Qing dynasty (China) |
| Death: | 11 February 2010 Wuxi, Jiangsu, China |
| Age: | 111 years, 357 days |
| Country: |  CHN
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| Unvalidated | |
Zhou Yunmei [Chinese: 周云梅] (18 February 1898? – 11 February 2010) was a Chinese supercentenarian claim whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Zhou Yunmei claimed to be born on 18 February 1898 in Jiangsu Province, Qing dynasty (China), the first day of the Lunar year. Her family had good education and was respectful of traditions. She was kind and virtuous, and knew the etiquette. But she was also economical and hard-working, and gave a lot of her maternal love to her children while working hard.
According to her youngest son, Mao Nairen [Chinese: 毛乃仁], Yunmei never beat or shouted after her children, and kept a good atmosphere between her children.
Yunmei also liked painting and embroidering. Her husband died around 1960, from illness.
Later Life[]
At age 88, Yunmei underwent an operation to remove gallstones. At age 100, she fell of a stool and broke her femur, so she underwent a surgery. She liked doing some exercise to kept her body in good shape. In her centenarian years, she visited some monuments with her relatives, like the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nankin, or the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai.
At age 107, Yunmei was reported to be constipated, but her daughter-in-law Chen Suidi [Chinese: 陈绥棣], who works at hospital, bought her rhubarb, honey and sesam oil to heal her. She was also reported to wear dental prothesis, installed by her second son Mao Naizuo [Chinese: 毛乃佐] who is dentist. Hard of hearing, she wears hearing aids, and likes watching Chinese operas in television. She receives 300 yuan by month from the town, completed by a 300 yuan mensual pension.
In her later years, Yunmei lived in a nursing home in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China. On 29 January 2006, aged 107, she was visited by her relatives to celebrate the Spring Festival (for the Chinese New Year). At that time, she had 48 grandchildren and 108 descendants.
On her 109th birthday (110th by Chinese age counting), Yunmei's family counted five generations: she had 113 descendants, the younger being 2 (from the fifth generation) and the oldest being 97 (from the second generation). She has given money to her family, and dedicated Xinhua dictionnaries [Chinese: 新华字典] to 29 of her great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren who studied.
Her third son, Mao Naiyou [Chinese: 毛乃友] (aged 87 in 2010), said that her mother encountered a lot of setbacks in her life. He thinks she's a model for the future generations, because she's kind, lives calmly, and treats everyone with simplicity; her family imitates her.
In December 2009, she was reported as the third-oldest living person in Jiangsu province, after Hu Jiazhi and Xu Zilan.
Yunmei died in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, on 11 February 2010 at 10 p.m., at the claimed age of 111 years, 357 days, one week shy of her claimed 112th birthday. Before her death, she said to her family that she wouldn't a great funeral, so she was simply burned. She was survived by 7 children (the oldest of the second generation aged 100), 41 grandchildren, 49 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren (the youngest aged of six months); some of them lived in Beijing, Shanghai and Yangzhou.
Gallery[]
References[]
- Unvalidated Claims (Age 108 and Older) from China (not updated since 2011)
- GRG Table L for China Gerontology Research Group
- １０８岁“大姐大” 有１０８颗孝心 东林书院, 9 October 2005 (Archived)
- 图文：109岁老人与晚辈欢聚在一起共度春节 Sina Net, 29 January 2006
- 无锡最年长的老人大年初一过110岁寿辰 thmz, 18 February 2007 (Archived)
- 无锡110岁老人喜迎重阳 Xinhua Net, 19 October 2007 (Archived)
- 给无锡市最年长的“寿星”拜年 People Wuxi News, 28 January 2009 (Archived)
- Report at age 111 mzj.wuxi.gov.cn, 6 November 2009 (dead link)
- 江苏省十大寿星 Retirement Industry Network (养老产业网), 11 December 2009 (Archived)
- 江苏十大寿星之一去世享年113岁 Nanchang News (南昌新闻), 18 February 2010 (Archived)