Tea culture and porridge culture are very important in China's diet. Let's talk about them in detail today.
First, Jia only drinks Lao Jun's eyebrows.
Tea tasting in Cuisi is a classic fragment depicting tea culture in the book.
Miaoyu, as the daughter of a down-and-out aristocrat, has always retained the arrogance of the old-school aristocrats, although her family has fallen. She has moved around, but she can also run around with cans of snow and rain.
The ancients thought that fresh water could not be used for drinking tea, and it must be buried and stored well to make good tea.
At this time, Grandmother Jia came to Cuiqi Temple. Miaoyu personally cooked the tea and presented a small tea tray with a colorful cover.
Grandmother Jia said, "I don't eat Lu 'an tea. "
Miaoyu smiled back: "Yes, this is Laojun's eyebrow."
Grandmother Jia asked again, "What kind of water is this?"
Miaoyu replied, "It was the rain of the old year."
In this way, grandma only ate half a lamp.
Lu 'an tea is a famous tea in Anhui, but Laojunmei is still controversial. According to People's Publishing House, "(Laojunmei) is covered in hair and smells like Gao Shuang. Its taste is mellow and shaped like a long eyebrow, hence the name' Laojunmei'. "
In addition to these two kinds of tea, there are daughter tea, maple dew tea, etc. In the book, water can be used from the snow swept off the plum blossoms in the old year to the rain. This shows the subtlety.
In the life of the ancients, tea was indispensable, and the nobles also attached great importance to it. Ordinary people, like now, can make steaming tea with a handful of tea and a big pot of hot water.
Compendium of Materia Medica holds that tea is the yang in yin, which can rise or fall. Modern medicine has also proved that tea contains theanine, caffeine, vitamin C and other ingredients, which helps to lower blood pressure and blood lipids.
The ancients once said that "tea is the medicine for all diseases", which is exaggerated, but it also shows its wisdom.
Second, clear porridge and fresh water, empty stomach conditioning.
The frequency of porridge in A Dream of Red Mansions is very high, the food in Jiafu is also exquisite, and the production of porridge is relatively complicated. On the porridge with names in the book, there are red rice porridge, Bijing porridge, Laba porridge, duck porridge, jujube porridge and bird's nest porridge, and the production method is very different from now.
At the Lantern Festival banquet, Grandmother Jia said that she was a little hungry. Wang Xifeng immediately replied, "Duck porridge is prepared." When the old woman said that she wanted to eat the list, Wang Xifeng immediately replied, "glutinous rice porridge and jujube are cooked together. Prepare the ladies to eat quickly. "
If it is really rigorous, the two kinds of porridge in Wang Xifeng's mouth are both real medicated porridge, which have the function of nourishing yin and nourishing stomach. Jujube, added to porridge, also has the effect of calming the nerves.
It can be seen that the Jia family's way of keeping in good health is to stick to the nuances day after day and achieve the effect of prolonging life. The benefits of porridge have long been expounded in Huangdi Neijing, and the folk habit of cooking medicated porridge has been circulating since ancient times.
In addition, once sick, Jia's practice is to eat light porridge, or get sick when hungry, and then take medicine. This practice will make the greasy food in the body be digested and better absorbed after taking the medicine, which is also a wise practice.
Of course, this method also depends on personal physique, otherwise the stomach will be hungry, and even the best medicine will make the body uncomfortable.
Third, it is better to cultivate one's morality than to exercise one's legs.
The most wonderful thing about Cao Xueqin is the use of contrast everywhere in the book.
He wrote about the excitement of Wang Xifeng's birthday and immediately accompanied Jia Lian's kitchen to flirt with women. After writing about the delicious taste of tea by Jia Mu, I immediately wrote about Grandma Liu's craft. Obviously, he is much older than Jia Mu and doesn't eat as well as Jia Mu, but he is healthier than Jia Mu. He walked several kilometers to Jiafu, carrying a lot of things, travel-stained, but also brisk.
Grandmother Jia stepped onto the gravel road and asked the maids to help her. If you accidentally fall down, the whole Jia family may be disturbed, and Jia Jia herself estimates that she has to practice a lot.
But granny Liu is old and can walk without help. She fell and could get up and rub her ass at once. Although it hurts, it won't hurt her bones.
The best way to be healthy is definitely not diet, but exercise, or exercise more.
Energy can be trained. Whether it's a good girl or a spoiled old lady, if you grasp the degree of exercise and exercise even a little more every day than before, your health will be better than before.
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The theory of traditional Chinese medicine is to mobilize the body's own immunity and then let the body recover. The theory of western medicine is to kill germs that invade the body and then make the body better. There is no difference between good and bad, only suitable. Just like diet therapy and exercise, they are not relative concepts, but complement each other and work together for a healthy body.