Go to bed early and get up late. Evening and morning are the coldest times in winter. In order to resist the cold, the human body must consume a lot of energy, which is especially beneficial to the elderly and the weak. Therefore, the ancients said, "Go to bed early and get up late, and wait for the sun." This is called "lying and hiding".
Keep warm. After the winter solstice, the weather is even colder, and the hands that are least afraid of cold should not be exposed to the cold wind. Huangdi Neijing said: "Eliminating cold warms the skin without leaking it" and "on the contrary, it hurts the kidney". This is called "packing".
Timely tonic: there is a folk saying that "tonic from winter to the sun will kill the tiger in the coming year". Up to now, most parts of the country still have the custom of celebrating the winter solstice. For example, in the north, there is a tradition of "staying in jiaozi from winter to Sunday and eating noodles from summer to Sunday". Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are famous for the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and making up with paste in winter solstice, while Macao retains the custom of taking winter solstice as a public holiday. However, no matter what kind of tradition, tracing back to the source, there is a mystery of "winter solstice tonic"
In winter, the most popular nourishing methods are mainly some foods with the same origin of medicine and food, such as Ejiao. The habit of tonic with donkey-hide gelatin also stems from ancient history and culture. Because the ancients thought that keeping in good health should conform to nature and curing diseases should take precautions, among which diet is a very important aspect, and the idea of dietotherapy is consistent in our country's diet culture. Food can not only nourish the body, but also cure diseases, adjust diet to keep healthy and treat diseases with food.
The ancients thought that "medicine and food are homologous." Food and medicine are originally a part of nature, and both have different sexual and taste characteristics. Just because they have different effects on the human body, some can nourish, some can attack evil, and some can replenish and attack, so they are divided into food and medicine.
Because Ejiao nourishes yin and blood, nourishes qi and moistens dryness, it has a good therapeutic effect on blood syndrome and deficiency syndrome, especially for women and the elderly, and it is a natural tonic. Therefore, people began to take Ejiao to nourish their bodies very early, forming a long tradition of Ejiao nourishing and health care.
Ejiao, as a medicinal material, can not only be used as medicine, but also be eaten. It is the first batch of Chinese herbal medicines with homology of medicine and food in China. Moreover, Ejiao is eaten before medicine, and it is a black rubber block for depilation of donkey skin. When killing the donkey, the skin is peeled off, the residual meat, fascia and fat layer are removed, and the donkey skin is dried in a ventilated place. After a series of complicated production processes, Ejiao was obtained. It is a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, and it is also called the three treasures of Chinese medicine with ginseng and velvet antler. It has been used in China for 2500 years, and the medicinal use of Ejiao has been recorded in the silk book Fifty-two Diseases unearthed from Mawangdui Han Tomb. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica lists Ejiao as "top grade", saying that this product is "beneficial to the health after long-term use." This shows that Ejiao is a kind of health care product, which can not only be eaten daily, but also prevent diseases, strengthen the body and prolong life.
Dong 'e Ejiao is the most authentic, among which Dong 'e Bainiantang Ejiao is a representative authentic Ejiao. In the course of more than 2,500 years, generations of Ejiao people have been insisting on making Ejiao with fine leather, a local well water and a unique winter climate. Because of its thousand-year quality guarantee and the characteristics of "black as paint, thick as amber, smooth as jade, not wet in summer and not soft in winter, and the glue effect still exists for a hundred years", it has been recognized and loved by consumers. Together with porcelain, silk and tea, it has become the four national treasures of China!