On the solstice of winter, the sun comes from the south and runs to 270 degrees.
At this time, the sun is almost direct to the tropic of Capricorn. For people in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night in a year. After the solstice in winter, the days become longer and longer, and the days move north.
In winter, the weather is cloudy; To, extremely also. The solstice of winter doesn't mean the arrival of winter, but the time when the cathode is alive.
Jiujiu Quhan
The solstice of winter is the beginning of nine cold days, and we are about to enter the coldest season of the year, commonly known as "entering nine"
How to spend this long and cold winter? The clever ancients created a series of activities to cool down.
Jiujiu Quhan Song
If you don't do this in 1929,
Walking on the ice in 3949,
Look at the willows in 5969,
79 rivers opened and 89 geese came.
99 plus 19, plowing cattle everywhere.
Jiujiu Song is a folk ballad handed down from generation to generation. There has been a festival every nine days since the winter solstice.
According to Chinese medicine, nine is the number with the highest yang. After 998 1, the residual cold will disappear and get warmer for the first time.
In addition, there is a kind of "Nine Nine Cold Pictures", which are commonly in three forms: words, circles and plum blossom pictures.
For example, in the plum blossom map, draw a plum blossom to outline nine plum blossoms, each plum blossom depicts nine petals, and one petal is dyed red every day. When all nine plum blossoms are painted red, it will be the "Nine Flowers" Spring Festival.
1999 The elimination of cold is a reflection of climate change from winter solstice to vernal equinox, which also shows that people's awareness of cold prevention is gradually improving.
Three stages of winter solstice
On the solstice of winter, yang is born, and everything in nature changes with the change of yin and yang climate at this stage.
Earthworm knot
Earthworms grow in the soil all the year round, with the characteristics of cold and yin curling and warm and yang stretching. The winter solstice is sunny, but the yin is still full, and the earthworms in the soil are still curled up.
Erhou | elk horn solution
Although elk and deer belong to the same family, deer belongs to yang and mi belongs to yin. After Mi touched Yang, the horns on her head began to fall off.
Three waiting periods | spring movement
At this time, although it was cold and heavy, the spirit of the sun began to rise. The spring water is deeply buried in the ground, and it is also germinated by the spirit of the sun and begins to flow, which indicates that everything in nature is about to recover.
The last breath resists cold and dampness.
Judging from the five movements and six spirits, the winter solstice has entered the end of the ugly year.
At this time, the sun's cold water is in spring, and the main spirit and courtesy are the sun's cold water. The climate will be extremely cold, so we should pay special attention to cold and moisture prevention this winter.
Winter is the key solar term for the birth of Yang. But this year, due to the influence of cold and dampness, many people will have the problem of insufficient yang, or the circulation of qi and blood will be blocked, and the ends of limbs will not be warm. The most obvious problem is that they easily feel cold hands and feet.
How to get rid of cold and dehumidification in winter solstice recuperation? Let's talk about diet, exercise, lifestyle and so on.
Nanbei eleventh yuan
As the saying goes, "the solstice in winter is as big as every year." The solstice in winter is a traditional festival in China, and it is also very particular about food culture.
The custom of "eating jiaozi in the north and jiaozi in the south" has gradually formed in different regions, which also contains the connotation of Chinese medicine culture.
North | yangjiaozi
In the northern winter solstice, a plate of hot jiaozi is definitely the protagonist on the table of every household.
Jiaozi originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Zhang Zhongjing, a medical saint, met the hungry and cold people in Nanyang. Some people even froze their ears. Therefore, mutton, ginger, fennel and other cold-dispelling materials were wrapped in flour and boiled in the shape of ears, named "cold-dispelling Joule soup".
What kind of stuffing is suitable for jiaozi in winter? I started with mutton.
Mutton is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which has the benefit of tonifying deficiency and warming yang. Suitable for people with deficiency cold, and it is a good product for keeping warm and nourishing in winter.
Many people feel feverish after eating mutton. This is because mutton enters the spleen and kidney meridian, which can warm the spleen and stomach. When the spleen and stomach are strong, the muscles will be strong, the qi and blood will be full, and the exogenous cold will naturally not invade.
Because mutton has a strong fragrance, ginger, pepper, fennel and tsaoko are often added to stew when cooking. These spices not only enhance the effect of warming and tonifying, but also have the benefits of appetizing and strengthening the spleen.
South | wine-fermented yam ball
There is a tradition of eating jiaozi in the south, which means round and round.
Glutinous rice, a kind of round glutinous rice balls with skin, is soft and sweet, and it is a good product for tonifying the middle energizer and nourishing the stomach.
However, glutinous rice is sticky and difficult to digest. If you eat too much, it is easy to cause stagnation.
Therefore, glutinous rice products should not be eaten raw. The amylopectin contained in it will be easier to gelatinize after cooking, and it will be better digested when eaten hot after cooking.
Recommend a kind of wine-brewed yam dumplings, which not only retains the soft and waxy flavor of dumplings, but also reduces the sense of stagnation caused by indigestion. This jiaozi is specially added with iron bar yam, which has the effects of benefiting lung qi, consolidating kidney and replenishing essence.
Winter is the best time to eat yam in a year. At this time, the newly dug yam quietly collects energy, becomes very rustic and tastes softer and sweeter.
Yam nourishes the lungs, spleen and kidney, thanks to the mucus in it. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this body fluid can nourish and strengthen the body, so it has the effects of tonifying kidney and essence, thickening the stomach and intestines, promoting fluid production and moistening the lungs.
In addition, yam mucus contains a lot of polysaccharides, which has the function of nourishing yin and convergence, and can help people with yin deficiency and heavy moisture to make up, so it is more suitable for winter consumption.
Mariko's "Soul Companion" —— Fermented Wine
As the saying goes, "the original soup becomes the original grain", which is particularly appropriate on wine. Fermented wine, also known as mash, is a fermented food brewed with glutinous rice.
Chinese medicine believes that fermented food can stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen, which is helpful for digestion.
The fermented wine after fermentation and saccharification not only tastes mellow and rich, but also has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals, warming stomach and strengthening spleen.
Drinking hot drinks in cold winter, the soft taste lingers between the lips and teeth, feeling warm and pleasant sweetness, warming the stomach and heart.
Exercise dehumidification pain
As we said before, it is easy to hurt the sun in winter because of the influence of cold and humidity.
In addition to the obvious common problems such as colds and cold hands and feet, cold pathogens invade the spleen and stomach, kidneys and meridians, and are also prone to problems such as cold pain in the waist and abdomen, diarrhea and joint pain.
Health preservation in winter should be closed. At this time, the metabolism of the human body is slow, the blood circulation is not smooth, and the flexibility of joints and ligaments will be reduced.
Therefore, the guiding movement in winter should be "seeking quietness while moving" step by step.
The guiding role of winter solstice is mainly to regulate diseases related to kidney meridian of foot-shaoyin.
Daily exercise can clear the accumulation of cold and dampness in limbs, meridians and viscera, and relieve the following discomfort symptoms-
It is essential to soak your feet to keep out the cold before going to bed in winter.
Chinese medicine says that "cold starts at the foot". The human body has 12 meridians, which connect the zang-fu organs and limbs and regulate the qi movement of the whole body. Six of them start and end at the foot.
Foot is one of the most vulnerable parts of human body to cold evil.
Once you catch a cold, in addition to cold hands and feet, it will also cause abdominal pain, low back pain, dysmenorrhea, colds and other problems.
So pay special attention to keep your feet warm.
Besides wearing warm shoes and socks, soaking your feet with 40~50 warm water for about 15 minutes before going to bed every night can also dredge the meridians of your feet, and achieve the effects of relieving fatigue, nourishing your heart and calming your nerves and warming your body.
The winter solstice is sunny, and when it is cold, count to nine.
Everything in the world is gradually recovering in the collection.
Even if it snows heavily and the cold strikes.
We should also maintain a warm sense of happiness in the reunion.