The days are short, warm as usual;
When the auspicious day is good, it is always peaceful and happy.
At this moment, the taste of the year is getting stronger and stronger, the blood of winter is gradually stronger, the day will slowly become longer after the winter solstice, and the night will slowly shorten, which is the key solar term for the conversion of yin and yang.
Winter solstice, also known as the day "short solstice", "winter festival", "sub-year", etc., has both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only an important solar term in the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional Chinese folk festival.
Traditional diet
The winter festival is one of the "eight festivals of the year", there are many kinds of winter solstice festival food, and all parts of the north and south of our country have different and unique festival food culture during the winter solsticeSome places in the south of our country have the custom of feasting and drinking on the winter solstice, and most places in the north have the custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice.
Dumplings
Yan Yun: "On the first day of October, the winter solstice arrives, and every household eats dumplings." Legend has it that when the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing returned to his hometown, he saw the people suffering from the cold, so he used mutton and some cold-warding herbs and dough to wrap them in the shape of an ear, and made a medicine called "cold-warding Jiao'er soup", and gave alms to the people to eatLater, every winter solstice, people imitated making and eating, forming a custom. And there is no shortage of people who love to eat dumplings in the north and south, and it is best to eat them on the winter solstice.
Glutinous rice balls
In some areas in the south, it is more popular to eat tangyuan, taking the meaning of reunion, and there is a saying that "eating tangyuan" is complete.
Lamb broth
The custom of eating mutton on the winter solstice is said to have started in the Han Dynasty, and people have eaten mutton and various nourishing foods on the day of the winter solstice in order to have a good omen for the coming year.
After the winter solstice, the coldest period of the year will begin, and the dryness of the weather will reach a new peak, and the dryness, sensitivity, dullness, acne ...... carelesslyAnnoying skin problems are also coming to the door
So, how to take care of your skin on the winter solstice?
1.Try to keep ** moist
Regardless of the north and south, the weather in winter is relatively dry, easy to catch fire and peel, and the hair is easy to break, so hydration is an important aspect of winter skin care, and the best way to replenish water is to drink more water and eat more fruits. Especially ripe tomatoes, sunscreen and whitening skin care, in addition, oranges, apples, strawberries, green leafy greens, carrots, etc. are good antioxidant and whitening skin care foods.
2.Massage into skin appropriately
Massaging the skin can promote blood circulation and transport nutrients to eye bags and cells. For about 3-10 minutes every night, use your hands to massage from the inside out, from top to bottom, to improve the skin's metabolism and promote the absorption of nutrients.
3.Diet therapy, beauty and skin care
As mentioned in previous articles, the pig's trotters, chicken wings, chicken feet, fish skin, beef bones, hoof tendons, white fungus, etc. have good collagen, and they are easy to dry in winter, lose water and peel, peel, dull, and are not as moist and elastic as spring and summer. Today is the Chinese solar term: the winter solstice, many areas have the habit of eating mutton soup, which is also a part of the dietary supplement.
If you don't have time to take a bottle of anthracite every day, the human body loses more collagen peptides in winter than in summer, and it is easier to lose water and collagen peptides when stimulated by cold in winter.
The winter solstice is as big as a year, and skin care is bigger than the sky
I'm busy at work, don't forget to send a message back to my family and send a message to the broadcast:Happy winter solstice