I recently went back to my hometown in the countryside. It was the first time in my life that I returned to my ancestral home. I was warmly received by my relatives and friends, and drinking was indispensable.

Once I saw a persimmon tree in my hometown, which was full of heavy red persimmons. It was very exciting to look at it. I couldn’t help but want to pick one and try it. However, the old man at home immediately stopped me and said, "Men are afraid of persimmons." "I'm afraid of pears" and wouldn't let me eat them. For this reason, I thought the old man was really stingy. Maybe he felt sorry for those persimmons.

Unexpectedly, I came back and chatted with a friend who is an expert in health preservation. He laughed loudly and said that I really misunderstood others. The old man is not stingy, but there is a saying "men are afraid of persimmons and women are afraid of persimmons". Pear" argument. This statement has been circulating in rural areas for a long time, and it is not completely without scientific reason.

So why are men afraid of persimmons? My expert friend gave me a detailed explanation.

This fear is mainly because men will feel uncomfortable and harm their health if they eat strawberries after drinking liquor. Moreover, persimmons are generally regarded as a "spermicide" fruit in rural areas. Since ancient times, people have believed that men who eat too many persimmons will have trouble conceiving.

According to traditional Chinese medicine, persimmons are cold in nature. People who have just recovered from a serious illness or are weak should not eat this cold fruit. In addition, if you eat persimmons on an empty stomach, the ingredients contained in persimmons can cause stones. Therefore, there is a certain scientific reason why men should not eat too many persimmons.

In fact, cooked persimmons are also a good health delicacy for men. Now I will share a persimmon health porridge

Men don’t have to be afraid of persimmon porridge. Persimmon porridge It can clear away heat and quench thirst, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, and can also cure polydipsia after drinking.

Method: Wash two fresh persimmons and squeeze the juice for later use. Then wash 100 grams of rice, put it into a pot and add water to cook it into porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add the prepared persimmon juice. You can add an appropriate amount of sugar. It can be eaten after it is cooked.

Cooking persimmon porridge can replenish qi and strengthen the spleen, and also has the effect of astringing and stopping bleeding.

So what does this saying mean that women are afraid of pears?

We know that eating pears has certain benefits for the body. It can purge fire, moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. We have children who are afraid of taking medicine when they have a cough. At that time, our parents would stew some rock sugar pears for us to drink. Relieve cough. Pears have so many benefits, so why are women afraid of pears?

Pear is also a cold fruit, and a woman’s uterus likes warmth but not coolness. If you eat too much, it will aggravate the cold in the body, and the cold in the uterus will lead to irregular menstruation. In addition, women have a cold constitution, so eating too many pears can easily cause diarrhea.

Now that the weather has gotten cooler, if you like to eat pears, you can steam them or make them into soup, which can not only protect the stomach and intestines, but also help maintain health.

Of course, this kind of rural proverb does contain the idea that some people hope for some good luck or good luck in life. Because "persimmon" is homophonic for "lost child", in ancient times, due to the idea of ??raising children to be big, men all hoped to have more children and be blessed. However, the living conditions at that time were relatively poor, and it was not easy to raise a child, so they were most afraid of the child's death.

The homophony of "pear" is "li". In ancient times, women were most afraid of divorce. Women who were divorced by their husbands had a very difficult life. They would be criticized everywhere and could not hold their heads up. , so there is a saying that women are afraid of pears.

In fact, some old people’s sayings are not necessarily all feudal superstitions. Some of them also contain certain truths. They contain wisdom and experience passed down for thousands of years, so we cannot take them all seriously. Proper attention is good for health.