The health care of Song people can be found in food and clothing. Food, medicine, incense, tea and soup are their favorite ways of keeping in good health. Among them, food and medicine can be regarded as one. According to Huangdi Neijing, the way to preserve one's health should be? Grains are used to feed, five fruits are used to help, five livestock are used to benefit, five vegetables are used to supplement, and the smell is combined to replenish essence. "And this dietary principle, Song people also quite agree, whether literati or ordinary people, eating more fruits and vegetables is their favorite dietary trend.

At that time, many literati personally cultivated or picked wild vegetables and medicinal plants for food supplement and medical treatment. For example, Mei Yao Chen and Su Shi also left poems describing the process of planting and picking wild vegetables and medicinal plants. Zhang Lei also wrote poems about how to cook and eat fruits and vegetables to get the best health care effect, and so on. In fact, it is not a rare way to keep healthy by planting vegetables and fruits, but it is undeniable that the ancients may pay more attention to the supplement of food and medicine than modern people.

The ancients liked to smell, and the Song people were also outstanding in this respect. Whether it is bathing incense, wearing incense every day, or burning incense and eating incense, it is an important way for literati in Song Dynasty to use incense for health preservation. For literati, incense is an extremely important daily necessities that are consumed all the time, including but not limited to going out to play, chanting poems, bathing and changing clothes, handling official duties and sleeping in greenhouses. Therefore, Song people like to use spices with medicinal effects in all aspects of life to achieve the effect of aromatherapy.

The so-called tea is fragrant drink, which has set off an upsurge of making all kinds of fragrant drinks in society. Among them, we have to talk about the fragrant soup for seeing off guests, which is a daily drink made of sweet herbs such as licorice, and is often considered as a health care thing. However, the literati's favorite fragrant soup is tea. Although there are no sweet herbs in the soup, there is a lingering fragrance of tea. Therefore, tea soup can not only rank among the top fragrant soups with its nourishing effect and aroma, but also become a health drink for many literati because of its elegant and indifferent temperament.