At the end of the boxer's light snow season, the sun reached 240 longitude. Everything in the world is accompanied by natural changes in phenology: first, the rainbow disappears, second, the weather rises, the atmosphere drops, and third, it becomes winter.

Although it will be the beginning of Meng Dong, the first snow that cannot be prevented will also lead to the disharmony between Yin and Yang, the occlusion of heaven and earth, the silence of everything and the disappearance of rainbows.

Between the north and the south, the warm sun is rare, and the cold wind blows, sweeping away the residual temperature in autumn. Blizzard came in the north and cold air came in the south. It's cold, rainy and sunny.

At the end of the year, the epidemic is ready to move again. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "healthy qi exists inside, and evil cannot be done." Although the gas has passed, the festival is coming. Early winter is the key time to nourish yin and subdue yang. If the yang is insufficient, it will be weak next year.

Therefore, the key to the recuperation of solar terms at this time is to nourish Tibet and to warm Tibet. We should actively guard against the invasion of foreign evils from all aspects of daily life.

Ancient light snow, solar terms customs are essential. There is a folk custom of "pickling with wind in winter and storing it for the winter". In the south, sausages and bacon are preserved with spices such as pepper, star anise, clove and cinnamon. In the north, pickled vegetables are needed to cope with the cold winter.

After the bumper harvest, farmers also have the custom of drinking wine, eating cook the meat and steaming glutinous rice, so as to replenish the middle energizer, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and drive away the cold and warm the sun.

1, it should be to close the kidney and protect the kidney.

Winter corresponds to the kidney in the five elements. Chinese medicine believes that "if you don't hide sperm in winter, you will get sick in spring." Xiao Xuesheng, a "hidden" word; In winter, it is very important to hide the yang of the kidney.

Usually, you can often eat black food such as black fungus, black sesame, black beans and black rice, or nuts such as chestnuts, walnuts, cashews, medlar, gordon euryales, and beef and mutton, all of which have the functions of warming kidney, nourishing blood and nourishing yin.

Recommend a light snow diet-black sesame and red jujube porridge

Practice: After washing a proper amount of japonica rice, put it in a pot and add water to boil; Add the stone-removed red dates and cook over low heat; When the porridge is thick and soft, add black sesame powder and appropriate amount of sugar and cook for a while.

Efficacy: porridge should be eaten in winter to help digestion. Black sesame has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney, moistening five internal organs, blackening hair and caring skin. Paired with red dates, it can replenish moderate coke, strengthen the spleen and stomach, nourish blood and soothe the nerves, and is also a good food in winter.

2, it should be warm and clear.

Eat tonic food in winter, but don't deliberately The diet is mainly warm food, but it should be light and light, focusing on warm food, not suddenly.

Usually, you can eat more warm foods, such as cabbage, radish, wax gourd, red dates, longan, lentils, pumpkin, yam and so on.

In addition, in the cold winter, you can drink some hot soup such as mutton white radish soup, cabbage tofu soup and so on. Warming and nourishing yin.

Xiaoxue Diet Recommendation-Stewed Mutton with Winter Melon

Practice: cut the mutton into small pieces and blanch it in boiling water; Peel wax gourd, wash and cut into pieces, and wash and cut parsley. Boil the pot with water, add mutton, onion, ginger and salt to taste and remove fishy smell; Stew the mutton until soft and rotten, add the wax gourd, stew until the wax gourd is cooked and rotten, and add a little pepper, sesame oil and coriander powder to taste.

Function: Mutton is warm, which has the functions of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, warming the middle warmer and dispelling cold, but it is slightly dry and hot. Add wax gourd to stew together, which is cool, can dispel dryness and heat, reduce fire, and has diuretic, detumescence and laxative effects. The two complement each other.

3, should be clear and moist.

Light snow season, officially entered the cold time. People are eager to nourish and add clothes, but in winter, lack of water, dry climate and excessive tonic are easy to cause lung dryness and excessive internal heat, thus causing discomfort symptoms such as cough, excessive phlegm and dry throat.

As the saying goes, "Eat raw radish and ripe pear". Radish has the functions of resolving food stagnation, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and promoting fluid production, and clearing away heat and benefiting qi. Radish can be eaten raw in winter besides stew. However, it should be noted that people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should cook before eating.

Pear has the functions of clearing away heat and moistening lung, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production. Steaming pears across the water, or cutting them into pieces and stewing them, and then adding honey or rock sugar to eat them can also relieve cough, which can appropriately relieve the symptoms of hot and dry cough.

When living in winter, you need to go to bed early to help hide yang and nourish your essence. There is a simple and easy way to nourish yang-natural moxibustion, that is, basking in the sun.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that natural moxibustion has the functions of nourishing yang and regulating qi and blood. You can choose to find a sunny place indoors around noon every day, with your back to the sun, from the top of your head to your back until you sweat slightly.

Regular moxibustion is helpful to relieve cold hands and feet, weakness of spleen and stomach, depression and other symptoms caused by yang deficiency.

In addition, when going out in winter, you should pay attention to adding clothes to keep warm. "The head is the meeting of all yang", so you should take a hat and scarf when you go out to resist the invasion of cold evil and protect the yang.

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