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Song Renzong didn't know Wang Anshi's regimen, so he didn't live Wang Anshi's life.
It is recorded in the Book of Rites Li Yun: "eat drink man woman, people's great desires exist." The importance of diet to human health was recognized as early as the pre-Qin period. The importance of diet to human body is self-evident. Health-preserving people generally regard diet as a way to maintain good health and prolong life. Diet maintenance has been advocated by people since ancient times. It's not groundless Huangdi Neijing contains:

In ancient times, those who knew it, yin and yang combined, and several strokes combined, eating and living in moderation, not in vain, so they could fear God and die at the age of 100.

Diet maintenance is considered as an important method and a summary of the characteristics of long-lived people.

In the Record of Conformation and Life Extension, there are:

Those who are born with more milk and less food, those who grow less flavor, those who are strong and delicious, and those who are strong live longer.

In the book, Tao Hongjing also shows the importance of keeping healthy through diet.

Wang Anshi put forward: "Eating, drinking and eating are all ashamed of keeping fit." It can be seen that Wang Anshi held a positive attitude towards the views of his predecessors in the Song Dynasty. The main contents of Wang Anshi's diet regimen:

First, the choice of ingredients

1. Five components

Five flavors refer to the characteristics of food or medicine itself: sour, sweet, bitter, salty and pungent. Wang Anshi put forward:

Strong qi, so suffering can nourish qi; The pulse is harmonious, so salty can nourish the pulse; Bone healing is strong, so acid can nourish bones; Jinsan does not contract, Xin can raise gold; If the meat is slow, it will not stop, and if it is sweet, it will raise the meat. Strong can be smashed, weak can be scattered; Use sweet if you want to slow down, and use sweet if you don't want to slow down. Spring is the main source of divergence, so it should be harvested with acid; If summer is the main solution, it should be a more bitter strengthening; In autumn, when the Lord is trying to gather, he should disperse it with greater enthusiasm; In winter, the main chestnut needs to be salty to soak; Smooth is beneficial, sweet is slow, and slow is beneficial, so adjust it.

It can be seen that Wang Anshi believes that the five flavors of ingredients are beneficial to the human body. The consumption of these five flavors depends on the nature of the four seasons. If the five flavors are used in excess, they can be mixed with sweetness.

Modern pharmacological experiments have confirmed that there are certain laws between taste and chemical components:

The pungent taste contains volatile oil, which has the functions of dispersing stagnation, promoting qi circulation and promoting blood circulation.

Acids contain organic acids, which can astringent and astringent.

Sweet taste is rich in active ingredients such as sugar, which has nourishing, harmonizing and soothing effects, and can regulate human qi and blood and relieve pain. Bitter ones contain alkaloids, glycosides and bitter substances, which can dry dampness and stop diarrhea.

Salty taste mostly contains inorganic salts such as sodium, potassium, calcium, iron, aluminum and iodine. , can soften hard mass, moisten the lower body, nourish yin and subdue yang. Considering these in clinical practice can be more targeted.

In short, people who keep in good health can eat food according to the five flavors of food, combined with time, place and people.

Choose fresh ingredients

Paying attention to fresh ingredients is not only the patent of modern people. Wang Anshi's method of understanding materials has his own set of theories:

Take the raccoon as a guide, there is no gas to vent, and it stinks like a bird. Although raccoons and literature and art are different, they have the same meaning. First, I said I couldn't eat it, and then I said that the wool was sloppy, and the dog was timid and blind, so it was called inedible.

Simply put, Wang Anshi distinguishes between the freshness of ingredients and the taste of food. In his view, the three flavors of "fishy" mean that the ingredients are not fresh.

We modern people pay special attention to the freshness of ingredients, not to mention that we have more opportunities to choose fresh ingredients.

3. The ingredients are very light

Light ingredients have been advocated since ancient times, and light ingredients are conducive to prolonging life. There is a song Renyun:

Zhang, the chamberlain, never eats anything except a cup of coarse rice, nor does he eat anything greasy. Old and peaceful, over 80 years old.

Wang Anshi's poems can better reflect this idea: "Wu Mi's wild oil bag is attracted, but he likes to speak freely and has a long smell."

In the era of medical care popularization, I believe that few people are tired of pursuing big oil. Of course, people who go out for entertainment or dinner should first choose restaurants with good color, smell and taste. At this time, food is the pursuit of these people.

4. The ingredients are comprehensive and cannot be partial eclipse.

Wang Anshi advocates that the choice of ingredients should be comprehensive, just like the nutritional balance of contemporary people. We should eat meat, fruit and vegetables, and his views at that time also apply to us modern people.

5. Reasonable ingredients

Wang Anshi believes that reasonable ingredients are consistent in nature.

Those who know how to eat reasonably, such as cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, geese, wheat and fish, have their own food. The correct position of things is not unique; If it is appropriate, it is also afraid of evil. On the contrary, it is necessary to avoid it ... if you say what you often eat, you can tell by analogy.

Contemporary people also pay attention to the absorption of nutrients, so when matching foods, they will consider whether the chemical components of two or more foods will affect each other, leading to the loss of nutrients, which is not conducive to human absorption. Wang Anshi matched the food according to the nature of the food itself to ensure that the food was beneficial to the body.

2. Ingredients processing

1. Not raw.

Wang Anshi advocates eating cooked food, believing that eating raw food will cause illness and even death. Today, people still advocate eating cooked food. According to the fact that raw food has bacteria, it is not good for people's health, and cooked food is more delicious and easy to be absorbed by the human body. We have been used to eating cooked food since ancient times.

Step 2 Add different kinds of pastes

On the one hand, according to the changes of the four seasons, Wang Anshi added corresponding ointment to cope with different climates. He thinks beef paste is used in spring; Summer dog cream; Chicken cream in autumn; Goat milk for winter. Namely cattle and native animals; Dogs, golden animals; Chicken, wooden livestock; Sheep, fire beast. On the other hand, according to the theory that the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth correspond to lung, liver, kidney, heart and spleen, attention should be paid to the balance of internal and external elements, so that the five internal organs can function normally. Therefore, we can know that Wang Anshi's purpose of adding ointment to the ingredients is to replenish spleen in spring, lung in summer, liver in autumn and heart in winter.

What we have to mention here is the theoretical interpretation of Chinese medicine and the theory of five elements. The relationship between the five elements is of great guiding significance to the treatment. As the crystallization of ancient people's wisdom and medical prosperity in China, TCM has also made outstanding contributions to world medicine.

3. Pay attention to the four flavors of food suitable for the season.

Four qi of things: cold, hot, warm and cool. Wang Anshi pays attention to the connection between the four seasons and the four flavors of food: warm food in spring; Summer is hot, so you need to eat hot food. It's cooler in autumn, so you need to eat cold food. It's cold in winter, so you need to eat cold food.

Step 3 pay attention to food supplements

In the era of Wang Anshi, the publication of a large number of medical books deepened his understanding of medicine. He summed up his medical knowledge as follows:

Taste, nourish essence; Valley, shape also; Medicine, then the patient is also treated. Nourishing essence is the foundation, nourishing shape is the second, and treating diseases is the last. So is the order of this processing.

Wang Anshi believes that the order of treatment and nursed back to health is five flavors to replenish essence, five grains to nourish shape, and finally medical care.

In the materialistic era, the ingredients we can come into contact with are not quite the same as Wang Anshi's Song Dynasty. So our complementary food is more abundant. As health-preserving people, we can dialectically treat Wang Anshi's health-preserving concept, that is, combine the richness of our contemporary food ingredients with his health-preserving concept and find a road conducive to our own health.

Wang Anshi's concept of health preservation was based on medical books at that time and summarized through a lot of reading. Based on our traditional Chinese medicine, his concept of health preservation is limited, but it is still scientific. Due to the limitation of science and technology at that time, TCM has not been widely spread in the world, but it is believed that with the continuous development and technical improvement of China, it will bring convenience to the development of TCM in the near future.