How to keep healthy in the twelfth lunar month
0 1. Remember to wear a scarf.
This winter and winter, people who often go to work remember to wear scarves or silk scarves to prevent their necks from catching cold. In order to prevent cervical spondylosis, you can also choose to wear a high collar or raise the collar of your clothes. Once cold air enters the human body, the blood vessels in the neck will contract. This is very bad for people with cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure.
02. Follow the healthy law of "going to bed early and getting up late"
We all know that "early to bed and early to rise is healthy", but everyone here advocates "early to bed and late to rise". That's because we sleep longer in winter. Why should we sleep longer? In life, you will find that if our bodies have small wounds or fractures, it is difficult to recover, especially for the elderly. This is because the weather in winter is very cold and our metabolism slows down.
Chinese medicine believes that yin and yang will gradually change in winter. Yang's spirit is lost too fast, and it is not easy to recover. We must rely on sleep to relieve vitality and improve health, so that supplementing sleep can help us regulate endocrine and improve human immunity.
03. Make more soup.
In winter, besides replenishing water, drink plenty of water. Cooking soup in winter is very suitable for drinking soup. The nutrition in soup is very rich, which people can absorb better. Drinking soup in winter can also drive away the cold stomach. Here, I suggest you drink yam mutton soup, which can help you cool down.
04. Massage Yongquan point on the soles of feet before going to bed at night.
Many people begin to get cold feet in winter, and regular foot massage helps to alleviate this phenomenon. Massage this acupoint can not only solve the problem of cold hands and feet, but also have other good health care functions. Of course, after soaking your feet in hot water, you can also massage this acupoint, and the effect will be better.
What traditional food do you eat in the twelfth lunar month?
1, Laba porridge
In ancient China, the Emperor of Heaven and the monarch made a La Worship out of dry things in December of the lunar calendar to worship the gods. La Worship later became popular among the people, and its custom has continued to this day, that is, eating Laba porridge (called "laba rice" in some places) on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the harvest.
The book "Laba Porridge at Yanjing Age" records: "Laba Porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red Jiang Dou and peeled jujube paste. And externally dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and exotic grapes.
2, rice cakes
The rice cake is steamed with glutinous rice or rice flour, which belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. There are three colors of rice cakes: red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. Also known as "rice cake", it is homophonic with "getting taller every year", which means that people's work and life are getting better every year.
3. Tangyuan
Tangyuan, also known as Yuanxiao, Tangtuan and floating Zi Yuan, is a spherical food made of glutinous rice flour. There are usually fillings, which are eaten with soup when cooked. In Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, people are used to eating jiaozi on the morning of New Year's Day. Tangyuan symbolizes better family reunion, and eating tangyuan means family happiness and reunion in the new year.
What fruit do you eat in the twelfth lunar month?
1, orange
The ripening season of oranges is usually in 10, which happens to be autumn and winter. Oranges contain a lot of vitamin C, flavonoids and carotenoids, which not only have antioxidant effect, but also enhance immunity and inhibit the growth of tumor cells. It can also soften and protect blood vessels, promote blood circulation, and reduce cholesterol and blood lipids.
2. Sugar cane
Sugarcane is a fruit with high water content, and its water content accounts for 84% of sugarcane. It is essential to replenish water in dry winter, followed by rich nutrition. It has a good relieving effect on severe cough, tonifying lung and strengthening stomach.
3. orange
Oranges are colorful, sweet and sour, and are common delicious fruits in autumn and winter. The dietary fiber content of oranges is quite high, so eating more can promote defecation. Rich dietary fiber is not only beneficial to gastrointestinal peristalsis, but also can reduce the incidence of cholesterol by using pectin in oranges.
Step 4 water chestnut
Every year, 1 1 month and1February are the seasons when water chestnuts are abundant, so water chestnuts mature in winter, which is the best season in winter. Water chestnut, also known as horseshoe, is sweet and cold in nature; Has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting fluid production, promoting diuresis and resolving phlegm; Suitable for fever, thirst, cough, excessive phlegm and other diseases. Modern medicine has also confirmed that the ingredients contained in water chestnut have antibacterial effect.
The implication of eating Laba porridge in the twelfth lunar month
Generally, eating Laba porridge in the twelfth lunar month means that the family is happy, safe and smooth, and the future life is harmonious and beautiful.