The time and people are urging each other, and the winter solstice is coming again. "The winter solstice is the fourth solar term of winter, and it is also an important festival, known as "Ya Sui", that is, the festival second only to "Nian". There is a saying among the folk that "the winter solstice is as big as the year". The New Year's footsteps are near.
The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight in the Northern Hemisphere. Although the day hours gradually become longer after the winter solstice, the solar radiation heat obtained by the ground is still less than the heat lost by the ground radiation, so this time ushers in the coldest period of the year, which is called "counting nine cold days" by Chinese folks.
Winter solstice customs
Today, many of the customs of the winter solstice are still preserved. In the northern region, there is a custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and eating wontons on the winter solstice, while in the southern region, there is a habit of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long-line noodles on this day. On the day of the winter solstice, various regions also have the custom of worshiping the heavens and ancestors.
Winter solstice health
In ancient times, there was a ** of "winter solstice and yang sheng", that is to say, from the day of the winter solstice, yang energy slowly began to rise, which is the key solar term for health care!Winter is the best season to "save" for health. Winter is closed, everything rests, and the mind is hidden deeply. At this time, as long as people conform to this season, follow the way of "winter storage" and health preservation, and achieve more "saving" and less "overdraft", they can live a long and healthy life.
In terms of daily life, the winter solstice to the small cold and the big cold is the coldest season, people suffering from heart disease and hypertension tend to get sicker, the number of people suffering from "stroke" increases, and the weather is cold and prone to frostbite. Therefore, in the cold winter season, for patients with hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and coronary heart disease, it is necessary to be particularly vigilant, beware of attacks, pay attention to cold protection and warmth, add clothes in time, choose soft and loose clothes, and should not wear too tight, so as to facilitate blood flow. Maintain a good state of mind, be emotionally stable and happy, and avoid anger, irritability and mental depression.
Insist on soaking your feet at night to dispel the cold, Chinese medicine believes that the cold in the human body enters the human body from the earth through the feet, so soaking your feet can effectively help keep warm. But foot soaking must be insisted on, not three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, only long-term persistence, in order to play the role of health care, cold and warmth.
During the winter solstice, the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, and warm foods are preferred, such as chicken, mutton, beef, crucian carp, etc. However, if you eat too much warm and tonic food, it is easy to get angry, so you can choose to eat flat tonic food, such as lotus seeds, seeds, seeds, red beans, jujubes, white fungus, pork liver, etc., these foods have no characteristics of being cold and warm, and they will not be too greasy to hinder the stomach's acceptance function. There is also a type of nourishing food, which has the effect of nourishing yin and benefiting the kidney, filling the essence and replenishing the marrow, mainly including fungus, black dates, sesame, black beans, sea cucumbers, abalone, etc. The diet should be light and varied, with a mix of grains, meat, vegetables, and fruits.
Dietary recommendation - lamb stewed with white radish
[Ingredients].500 grams of white radish, 250 grams of mutton, appropriate amount of ginger, cooking wine, and salt.
[the manufacturing method].Wash the white radish and mutton and cut it into pieces for later use, put an appropriate amount of water into the pot to put the mutton into the pot, take out the mutton a few minutes after boiling, pour out the water, change the water again and boil it, put in the mutton, ginger, cooking wine, salt, stew until six mature, and put the white radish into the pot until cooked.
[Efficacy].Nourish qi and replenish deficiency, warm in temperature. It is more suitable for people with soreness in the waist and knees, drowsiness and fatigue, kidney deficiency and impotence, and spleen and stomach deficiency.
Editor: Chen Meiling.
Contributed by: Xiaohe Zhen, District Health Commission.
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