On the festival of ancestor worship, the Double Ninth Festival is considered as a day to honor the elderly. The traditional custom of Double Ninth Festival is not only a celebration, but also a way of keeping in good health. Next, I will learn about the health customs of the Double Ninth Festival with you and what benefits these customs have on the human body.

Take a mid-afternoon nap to replenish qi and blood.

It is better to have a lunch break at noon. Compared with the vigorous physical strength of young people, the elderly are relatively deficient in qi and blood. While ensuring normal sleep time and regular sleep, they also need a nap to relieve fatigue. With a nap, all parts of the body can have enough rest to cope with the afternoon work, and the elderly generally suffer from insomnia at night. Taking a nap can better alleviate the physical and mental fatigue caused by lack of sleep. Tips: Don't take a nap after meals, and don't overeat Chinese food. Don't take a nap for more than an hour, otherwise it will affect the quality of sleep at night.

Don't stay indoors for a long time

Staying indoors for a long time, especially in some rooms with poor air circulation, is very unfavorable to the elderly. Due to the lack of oxygen supply in closed air, the elderly are relatively poor in physique, and they are prone to hypoxia and dizziness in this environment. Moreover, in a closed room, the ventilation with the outside world will not be obvious, and the bacterial density will not dissipate obviously. Over time, it will increase indoor bacterial density and the resistance of the elderly to diseases will decrease. If you do some healthy exercise indoors, you will easily get some diseases. Tips: If you are a person with mobility difficulties, it is best to open the window indoors for ventilation, and finally let your family help you bask in the sun at home.

Replace greasy food with fish.

In fact, foods like spicy oil are taboo for the elderly, because regular consumption of these foods will increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases. For fish that are also meat, replacing these oils can effectively prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases, and at the same time avoid the increase in the incidence of stones caused by vegetarian diet without meat. There are many rich trace elements in fish, which can balance the dietary nutrition of the elderly. Tip: It's best to eat the tender part of the fish. You don't need to eat things like fish eggs. High cholesterol content. It's best not to eat fried fish. It is best to cook fish.

Regular health examination

Go to the hospital for physical examination regularly every year, because the physical condition of the elderly is weak, even if they pay attention to health care behavior at ordinary times, some physical conditions will inevitably appear, even if they cannot be prevented, so it is necessary to go to the hospital for physical examination regularly, so that many diseases can be found early and treated early, because if they are found early, this will not happen. Of course, when the elderly go to the hospital for physical examination, in addition to routine examination, they have to carry out special examinations in some special places, because the elderly in these places have a high probability of getting sick, such as heart and brain diseases and some cancer examinations. Tips: In fact, it is best to go to the top three hospitals for examination. If not, it should be a slightly more formal hospital, because the credibility of small hospitals and the advanced degree of instruments are relatively backward. 、

Entertain the body and mind

Recreational activities to relax the mood For the elderly, the influence of psychological state on diseases can be said to be very obvious. I believe everyone will feel the same way when observing the old people around them. A cheerful mood can not only enhance the body's immunity, but also prevent some elderly people from suddenly suffering from cardiovascular diseases due to extreme anxiety, and a cheerful mood can also promote sleep and increase appetite. It is very useful. In fact, dancing square dance is very conducive to relaxing the mood of the elderly. The reason why I was scolded was because of the warm reminder: when you relax in traveling and square dancing, you should pay attention to your physical condition. If you feel unwell, you need to have a rest at once.

What to eat on the Double Ninth Festival?

mutton noodles

You should eat mutton noodles on the Double Ninth Festival. "Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which should be the code name of Chongyang. If you want to eat white flour, "white" means "100" minus the top "1", which means that 100 minus 1 is 99, in line with the code name of "99".

The birthday of a 99-year-old man in Beijing is called "Bai Shou". Wealthy families can hold mutton-based banquets on the same day, such as fried, roasted, rinsed and even whole sheep seats. Autumn is the fattest season for sheep, and mutton is warm and can keep out the cold.

sabotage

Double Ninth Festival, and crabs. Zheng Banqiao's poem: "On holidays, enter the Double Ninth Festival and hold tender ginger." It is evidence of the tradition of eating crabs in Chongyang.

Crabs are rich in protein, which is called high-quality protein food. Crab meat is delicate, and muscle fiber contains 10 kinds of free amino acids, among which glutamic acid, proline and arginine are more, which is beneficial to people who need to supplement nutrition.

Moreover, crab fat content is very low, but fat-soluble vitamins A, E and B are high, especially crab yellow is rich in vitamin A, which is good for vision and skin health.

Chestnut Cake

There are two kinds of snacks in Beijing, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste as the main raw material.

Its practice is to peel raw chestnuts, steam them, mash them into mud, and prepare large pieces of Beijing cakes and sand stuffing. Divide 200 grams of chestnut paste into three parts, one is spread out as the bottom layer, and then spread a layer of Beijing cake, the other is smoothed on the Beijing cake, and then spread a layer of sand stuffing, and the last part of chestnut paste is spread on the top layer. The pattern is made of Beijing cake cut into small water chestnut and thin green plum shreds. When eating, pour the sugar juice made of white sugar and osmanthus on it.

Eat a rake

Raking is another food custom in the Double Ninth Festival in southwest China. Rakes are divided into soft and sweet, hard and salty. Its practice is to put the washed glutinous rice into a boiling pot, boil it, steam it in a cage, mash it in a mortar and knead it into a ball. When eating, stir-fry sesame seeds, pound them into fine powder, rake them into strips, pull them into small pieces, and mix them with sesame seeds and sugar. Its taste is sweet and palatable, and it is called "soft rake" (warm food is the best). Hard harrow, also called "oil harrow", is made by steaming glutinous rice without mashing it, rubbing it into a ball on the table, rolling it out, putting some salt and pepper powder as "stuffing", rolling it into strips and slicing it, and frying it in an oil pan. Golden and beautiful in color, salty and crisp, with endless aftertaste.