Today is the winter solstice, as the saying goes, the winter solstice is as big as the year. According to the "Jiaxing Fu Zhi", "the winter solstice is the first, and the crown covers the congratulations, such as the New Year's Day ceremony". In ancient folklore, there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year".
The winter solstice is one of the twenty-four solar terms and a traditional Festival in China.
Winter, yin also; to, pole also. The winter solstice is not the meaning of the arrival of winter, but the time when "yin qi is extreme, yang qi is born".
The time is roughly between December 22 or 23 of the solar calendar every year.
The Seventy-Two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order say: "Winter solstice, mid-November." The ultimate hidden qi has reached this point and is extremely high. ”
On this day, the northern hemisphere has the shortest day and the longest night in the whole year, and it also marks the beginning of China's entry into the "number nine cold days". How to survive this long and cold midwinter?
Nineteen twenty-nine does not shoot, three-nine-nine-nine ice walks,
Five-nine-six-nine along the river to see the willows, seven nine rivers to open eight or nine geese,
Nine nine plus one nine, ploughing cattle everywhere.
Cold, wet, frost, yin, water, and sunlight. Feeling cold, the patient's joints are forbidden, the waist is painful, and the cold and wet are pushed by the qi intercourse and the disease is also diseased.
- "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic"
On the day of the winter solstice, we Chinese custom of eating dumplings.
Dumplings originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing happened to encounter the starving and cold people of Nanyang, some of whom even froze their ears. Therefore, lamb, ginger, fennel and other cold-repelling ingredients are used to cook food in the shape of flour wrapped in ears, and named it "Cold Ear Soup".
On a cold night, the family gathers around to eat a bowl of hot dumplings, which is more peaceful and happy in this winter. Here, I wish everyone a happy meal, a healthy meal, and a delicious meal.
The poet Saint Du Fu said in his poem "Little Solstice": "The days and times are urged by each other, and the winter solstice and the yang are born and spring comes again." Embroidery five patterns add weak threads, blowing leaf six flies floating ash. The shore is waiting for the wax to be shu willow, and the mountain is cold and wants to release the plum. ”
As the saying goes, "delicious but dumplings", Chinese have a special love for dumplings.
But I would like to remind all friends that although the dumplings are delicious, be careful not to overdo it.
Generally speaking, six normal-size dumplings are about one or two staple foods, and friends who combine fatty liver should pay attention to controlling the total amount. If you eat too much, it will aggravate obesity.
If patients with liver disease with poor digestive function should pay attention to avoid eating crude fiber ingredients such as celery, leeks, and soybean sprouts, and avoid dipping with spicy dipping sauces to avoid aggravating flatulence.
So what should patients with cirrhosis pay attention to?
Patients with cirrhosis of the liver should pay special attention not to eat too much and eat too fast, so as not to induce bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Dumplings are not easy to digest, eat more, but also increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, causing bloating, indigestion.
Dumplings are made, and different people like to eat different fillings.
Northerners, especially Guanzhong, prefer lamb more.
The "Diet Recipe for Living with The Breath" writes about the sweet and warm of mutton. Warm up and nourish the camp. Withstands wind and cold, muscle strength. Fertility, healing, pain relief. Fat and tender, easy to ripen and not good, autumn and winter are beautiful.
According to Chinese medicine, mutton is sweet and warm, has the benefits of supplementing the deficiency of warm yang, suitable for people with cold to eat, and is a good product for winter cold nourishment.
Many people have a feeling of fever all over their bodies after eating lamb. This is because the mutton into the spleen, kidney meridians, can warm the spleen and stomach, spleen and stomach strong muscles, qi and blood camp guard is full, wind and cold external evil is naturally not easy to invade.
Due to the large smell of lamb, ginger, peppercorns, fennel, grass fruits and other stews are often added to the cooking, and these spices not only enhance the warmth and nourishment.
However, although the lamb is good, patients with liver disease need to eat an appropriate amount, not too much.
Fatty liver, chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, a day can eat about 2 or two, should eat lean meat, less choice of fat meat, meat skin.
Friends who have liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy should taste it lightly, no more than 1 or 2 per day, with grains and vegetables, a small number of times.