On this day, the sun moved to 90 degrees of the yellow meridian. The position where the sun shines directly on the ground reaches the northernmost point of a year, almost directly on the tropic of cancer, and the daytime time in all parts of the northern hemisphere reaches the longest in a year. At noon, there will be a scene of "standing without a shadow" in the area on the Tropic of Cancer, and people will look at their own shadows, which will be the shortest shadow in a year.
Recently, there have been frequent rainstorms in the south. Thunderstorms for several weeks have stirred the city like a swamp, and people and the city have been forced to indulge in changing humidity. The road is sunny, but not sunny. A summer rain, a hot summer, as one of the earliest established time or solar terms in the history of eastern and western civilizations, the summer solstice announces that the hottest time of the year is coming.
Legal holidays of ancient people
Summer solstice was called "Summer Festival" and "Summer solstice Festival" in ancient times, and people in ancient times attached great importance to summer solstice. Before the Qing Dynasty, the solstice in summer was a national festival. In the Song Dynasty, officials had a three-day holiday from the summer solstice. In Liao Dynasty, "Summer is called Chao Festival, and women enter colorful fans, leaving powder and fat bags." Colorful fans and sachets are all good things to cool off the heat, which are somewhat similar to the necessary gifts for today's holidays.
Look at the people across the ocean. Stonehenge in Salisbury, 0/30 km from London/Kloc-England, is the most famous prehistoric civilization site in England, dating back to 3050 BC. Every summer solstice, the sun rises in a straight line with a stone called "heel". People from all over the world will gather at Stonehenge to wait for the sunrise and celebrate the "Summer Solstice".
Latvia, once one of the Soviet republics, greeted the summer solstice with bold streaking. On this day, the town of Kuldiga in the west of Latvia will organize streaking activities, and men, women and children will greet the arrival of the summer solstice with wild and unrestrained collective streaking. Ecuador is also a country that welcomes the summer solstice, and dances for fifteen days from midnight on the summer solstice.
Probably summer is always the season when people release dopamine and hormones easily. Streaking and dancing is more like a release of the nature of pursuing happiness. As the saying goes, "play until the sun in summer", it can be seen that this kind of day is really not suitable for excessive blood supplement.
If the summer solstice can be "restored" as a legal holiday. In summer holidays, under the scorching sun, it is very human and natural to stop school and work, gather around the courtyard and do something to protect the yang and enjoy leisure.
When the sun reaches the Yang, nourishing the Yang also stops the Yin.
"The sun is getting hotter and hotter, and kuya is cloudy in midsummer." The summer solstice is the time and space for divination in a large time series. The six hexagrams are all yang, and the yang between heaven and earth reaches the extreme.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, Yang Qi is the motive force of functional activities of zang-fu organs. If the internal organs lack motivation, people with insufficient yang will naturally feel weak and tired. In Huangdi Neijing, there is a principle of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter", which requires people to arrange their lives according to the natural law of "spring dominates the rise and summer dominates the growth".
Therefore, keeping in good health in summer should conform to the characteristics of excessive yang, and pay attention to protecting yang from all aspects to keep the qi flowing smoothly. In addition, summer is also the so-called "life and death of Yin and Yang" season. Before this, the yang grew and the yin disappeared, and then it was changed to the yang grew and the yin grew. At this time, the yang covers the yin, and the yin begins to grow under the yang.
How to raise yang? At this time, moxibustion can be added. Many people misunderstand that the sun is already strong in summer, and the fire of Ai is the fire of pure Yang. Why do you need to support Yang? In fact, moxibustion is the most suitable in summer, and moxibustion has the best effect at this time. In summer, the abundant yang in nature makes the human meridians more unobstructed than in spring and summer. Moxibustion can be supplemented, which can greatly improve the physique of people with yang deficiency and qi deficiency. It is suggested that such friends insist on moxibustion at Guanyuan, Qihai and Zusanli every day.
Not only that, in the coming dog days, but also the hottest period of the year, sticking to moxibustion can achieve the effect of "treating winter diseases in summer". The heat is unbearable, and the pores are fully open. It is the wisdom of health preservation left by the ancients to use the connection between time sequence and body yin and yang to regulate qi activity, cure stubborn diseases and prevent diseases.
Go to bed late and get up early, and take a nap at noon.
The solstice in summer is the longest day of the year. "Play, play on the solstice in summer", today, it probably means "who wants to go to bed early because the day is so long! Get up, hey. " Indeed, no matter where the hour hand points, as long as the sun shines there, I feel that there are still endless things to do in a day and rich fun to find. Going to bed too early is a waste of naked time and dazzling natural light.
In line with the changes in nature, due to the physiological laws of staying up late and going out at night, our work and rest should also be adjusted to stay up late and get up early. But remember to take a nap at noon to make up for the lack of sleep and the drowsiness caused by the high temperature during the day.
Don't forget to eat noodles.
Since ancient times, there has been a folk proverb in China, "Eat noodles when you eat jiaozi from the winter solstice". Eating noodles from summer solstice is an important custom in many areas. There is a folk proverb that "Eating noodles from summer solstice shortens the day". There are many kinds of noodles in the south, such as Yangchun noodles, dried soup noodles, shredded pork noodles, three fresh noodles, sesame oil noodles and cold noodles, while noodles with gravy and noodles with dregs in the north. Because new wheat has appeared from summer to sun, eating noodles from summer to sun also means tasting new things. In the hot summer, the taste buds are weak, and a bowl of cold noodles is cool and full.
In addition, according to the relationship between five elements (summer is fire), 50% (summer is long), five internal organs (heart) and five flavors (bitterness), bitter things can also help the heart and control the lung. Summer is also the season of sweating. If you sweat more, you will lose more salt. If the myocardium is short of salt, the heartbeat will be abnormal. At this time, it is advisable to eat more sour to consolidate the table and eat more salty to replenish the heart.
In hot weather, it is easy to eat too much cold food at one time. But don't eat anything too cold in Xia Yue, including Yin Fu. It's very important to keep warm, so as to avoid the winter illness without Xia Zhicheng, which will increase many summer illnesses. After all, growing up in the modern age where air conditioners are everywhere and cold drinks are readily available, there are countless temptations and traps of "diarrhea". The only way to resist is to follow Xiao Gu's "love yourself every day".
Overview of Sun Moxibustion (10th) to Summer Health Acupoints;
Baihui, Zhongyu, Shenque, Qihai, Guanyuan and Zusanli.
Mild moxibustion, choose 3-4 acupoints every day, and moxibustion at each acupoint 15-20 minutes.
Baihui point
Acupoint selection: the intersection of the midline of the head and the connecting line between the two ear tips.
Zhongwan
Acupoint selection: in the upper abdomen, on the front line, 4 inches above the umbilicus.
Shenque
Acupoint selection: in the navel, in the middle of the navel.
Qihai
Acupoints: lower abdomen, anterior midline, subumbilicus 1.5 inch.
Guanyuan
Acupoints: lower abdomen, anterior midline, 3 inches below umbilicus.
Zusanli
Acupoints: anterolateral calf, about 3 inches (4 fingers) below the knee depression, and about 1 finger on the lateral tibia.
* Solar-term moxibustion is to select acupoints that have an influence on the function of human viscera according to the 24 solar terms, and use the medicinal hot air generated by burning moxa to smoke and warm the acupoints, so as to stimulate the qi of human meridians, warm qi and blood, regulate yin and yang, and help the human body adapt to the changes in nature, thus achieving the purpose of preventing diseases and treating diseases.
Moxibustion has long been known.
Pay attention to keep warm during moxibustion to avoid catching cold at the moxibustion site;
Drink a cup of warm water before and after moxibustion to help expel toxins from the body;
Do not wash your hands with cold water within half an hour after moxibustion, and do not take a bath within 2 hours;
Don't eat cold drinks, fruits and seafood after moxibustion;
After meals 1 hour is not suitable for moxibustion; Women should not be moxibustion during menstruation;
Moxibustion is not suitable in the state of hunger, fullness, drunkenness, fear, anger and thirst;
If there is more moxa after moxibustion, put it out completely with extinguishing tube or put it in a jar and cover it tightly.
If you feel great discomfort or aggravation after moxibustion, please go to the hospital for dialectical treatment.
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You can be less tired from the summer solstice when the ancients had a holiday.
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