When it comes to Confucian health preservation, the beauty lies in being refined but not refined, and being poor and happy. Inner peace and comfort are the most important things. The Analects of Confucius says: "Eat vegetables, drink water, rest your pillow and have fun." Unjust wealth is like a cloud to me. "and" a gentleman doesn't have enough to eat, and a villain is restless. " Meng Ziyun: "eat drink man woman, people's great desires exist." "Eating is also important." Confucian health preservation has many sayings about eating and men and women.
Confucian culture advocates: don't eat too much just because things are good. The taste will change after a long meal, and the fish will rot after a long time. Don't eat such a meal. Don't eat food when its color changes, and don't eat food when its taste changes. Don't eat it before it's cooked, and don't eat it when it's not cooked. Don't eat meat that is not cut in the usual way. The seasoning is not put right. Although there is a lot of meat, there is more meat that can't be eaten than rice, and meat can't be eaten as rice. Drinking in moderation, not causing trouble, not breaking the law. There is a saying in The Analects: "Eat without words, sleep without words". Don't talk while eating, and don't chat before going to bed. It is easy to choke when eating and talking, and food is easy to enter the trachea. Second, you can't chew well when you speak, which affects digestion. Talking before going to bed can easily lead to blindness and affect the quality of sleep.
In the matter of men and women, Confucius once mentioned that "a gentleman has three precepts": "When you are young, your blood gas is uncertain, so you should be careful; It is also strong and bloody, and it is fighting; I am also old, my blood gas is declining, and I have to quit. " The ancients married early, their bodies were not yet mature, and their blood gas was uncertain. Confucianism believes that temporary abstinence is a wise move, which conforms to the modern scientific principle of getting married after 20~22 years old. Although we advocated abstinence from color when we were young, it is also correct for middle-aged and elderly people not to talk about abstinence from color, but to talk about "eating color" and "eat drink man woman, people's great desires exist". Modern medicine believes that abstinence will harm health, and moderate sexual life is good for the soul. Although the elderly are getting weaker and weaker, it is more beneficial to have sex several times a year. In terms of gender, Confucianism believes that sex is a normal need of human beings, pays attention to moderation and recognizes the rationality of sex. The Confucian moderate attitude of not abstinence and advocating sex is more reasonable for health.
For life, Confucianism pays attention to spiritual cultivation. There is a saying in Mencius with all his heart: "He who does his best knows his nature; If you know its nature, you will know its nature. Keep your heart and cultivate your nature, then things will be natural. I don't want to live too long. I am cultivating my self-cultivation to wait for it, so I made up my mind. "Mencius means that people who can fully develop their goodness are people who understand human nature. By understanding human nature, they understand the fate of mankind. Keeping people's initial heart and cultivating people's nature is my way of treating fate. Therefore, regardless of the length of life, we must persevere, cultivate our body and mind, and wait for the arrival of fate. This is the way to settle down. This is a positive and open-minded attitude towards life, and it is a way of keeping in good health worth advocating.