Winter tonic has a long history in China. The ancients believed that winter is the season when vitality lurks and yang hides, and it is the best time to maintain and accumulate energy. It is necessary to pay attention to the way of Tibetan cultivation and tonic in time, which can not only increase nutrition, but also dispel cold and strengthen the body.

You can eat more mutton, beef, celery, white radish, potatoes, Chinese cabbage, spinach, apples, longan and so on this season. This time is also a good time for friends and relatives to get together and eat spicy hot pot and braised mutton. "Three-nine supplements one winter, and there will be no disease in the coming year", which shows how important the "three-nine" health care is.

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It is hot in dog days in summer and cold in March and September in winter. When do you start counting nine after the solstice in winter? There is an old saying in agricultural proverbs that "three years old in summer and nine years old in winter."

It is easy to understand that the summer solstice enters the dog days. Only when the third day after the summer solstice comes, it begins to enter the dog days. According to different years, the dog days will be different. In some years, the dog days are thirty days, while in other years, it is a long forty days, including the first ten days, the middle twenty days and the last ten days. Compared with accommodation, the number of nine is quite different.