Asphalt paver Li Zongnan. Photo by reporter Liu Bo
Fu Xiuling's homemade chestnut cake. Photo by reporter Cui Yin
At the Hengjie Town Health Center, doctors are sticking three-volt stickers for patients. Courtesy of the correspondent
July 22 is the summer of the twenty-four solar terms. The weather is being "called" for the heat.
On July 18, waving goodbye to the rainy season with the heaviest rain in nearly 60 years, we were "hit" by the high temperature above 35 ° C;
Judging from the 10-day forecast released by the Municipal Meteorological Observatory on July 20, before the end of July, except for July 24 to July 25, the city will have a short rain process, and other days will be dominated by sunny and hot weather, with local afternoon thunderstorms.
Therefore, until the end of July, the maximum temperature will remain at 34 °C -37 °C on most days.
The frequent occurrence of thunderstorms in the afternoon is inseparable from the subtropical high pressure that has recently "entrenched" in our city. However, compared with the "by-product" of thunderstorms, high temperatures are the "big killers" of subtropical high pressure. The Municipal Meteorological Observatory released a high temperature report yesterday, saying that from July 22 to July 23, the maximum temperature in the city can reach 35 ° C - 38 ° C.
The temperature in Yongcheng remains high, what is the life and work of the people of Yongcheng? Let's focus the lens on the people's livelihood in the high temperature.
Summer diet
In the summer of "boiling wok", take a bite of chestnut cake
How cool is it?
The coolness of mint mixed with the sweetness of sugar osmanthus flowers comes to the nose, suddenly giving rise to a kind of "calm and natural coolness". Take a spoonful into your mouth, a little sticky, a little tough, a seemingly innocent coolness flowing between the lips and teeth.
In the summer of "Ruo Boiling Wok", how can we get one of the two major "killing weapons" of Ningbo people to spend the summer - ground chestnut cake?
Love hidden in chestnut cakes
At 4 a.m., Fu Xiuling, who lives in the Shijia Community in Dongsheng Street, Yinzhou, got up and busied herself in the kitchen. She plans to make a plate of chestnut cake before going downstairs to work out.
By the time the boiling water in the milk pot "grunts" bubbles, the beaguel in the bowl has been turned into a paste with cool water. Mountain flour is a Ningbo dialect. It has a more understandable name, sweet potato flour. Simply put, sweet potatoes become powder after being planed, washed, dried, and ground. In cooking, it is often used to "turn pulp to make soup", that is, to make a soup. Slowly pour the mountain flour paste into boiling water and stir clockwise with chopsticks until there are no particles.
Fu Xiuling, 80 years old this year, watched her grandmother make chestnut cakes with mountain flour when she was a child. When her grandson was a child, she would also make chestnut cakes every summer for her grandson to eat as a cold drink. For decades, she had long since stopped remembering "how much mountain flour with how much water", completely by the feel.
Pour the cooked gouache paste into a porcelain dish and sprinkle a small packet of sugar osmanthus flowers. The small golden flowers, with a slightly burnt brown mountain flour paste, have an amber-like feeling.
Seeing that the sky was getting darker, the time for early exercise arrived, put the porcelain plate into the refrigerator, and Fu Xiuling went out. Until 10:00 a.m., the temperature gradually rose, Fu Xiuling lifted the porcelain plate out of the refrigerator, at this time the chestnut cake has condensed into a freeze, with chopsticks gently poked, there is a kind of Q bomb texture.
The different fates of the "artifact" of the summer
On a whim, Fu Xiuling made another plate of Wood Lotus Jelly.
In the memory of many ningbo people who are a little older, chestnut cake and wood lotus jelly can be regarded as two major "artifacts" to cool off the heat. The former is amber-like in color, while the latter is crystal clear.
However, the fate of the two "artifacts" is not the same. Whether it is in the streets, vegetable markets, supermarkets, or attractions, mullein jelly is still relatively easy to buy, and chestnut cake is not so common.
In Fu Xiuling's view, the different "encounters" of ground chestnut cake and mulian jelly may be related to the ingredients. She said that when making chestnut cakes, it is usually used the most is mountain flour, and sometimes it also uses lotus flour and yam powder, which are "enough to fill the stomach", and as for wood lotus jelly, "it is more like a cold drink".
As a common condiment, mountain flour is almost a must-have for every household. Even if it is a "hungry" chestnut cake on a whim, it can be made at any time at home; if you want to make wood lotus jelly, even if it is brewed with ready-made wood lotus powder, wood lotus powder is not "easy to take".
Winter disease summer cure
Three volts on the day of the "three volts sticker"
What is the effect?
At present, it is the first time of the three-volt day, which is a good time to cure winter diseases and summer diseases. The reporter learned from the traditional Chinese medicine departments of major hospitals in Ningbo that there has been an endless stream of patients who have been posting three volt stickers since they entered the ambush. Experts remind that not everyone is suitable for sticking three-volt stickers, and the summer treatment of winter diseases should be carried out under the guidance of doctors.
Three-volt stickers are becoming more and more popular
"After posting it once in three volt days last year, I felt that there were far fewer rhinitis attacks in winter, which was amazing." On the morning of July 21, Mr. Wang, a citizen, made a special trip to Ningbo Huamei Hospital (Ningbo Second Hospital) of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences to paste the three-volt sticker. Mr. Wang has rhinitis for many years, and when the winter comes, the attack is particularly severe, and when the cold air comes, his rhinitis will occur, and even his head will be dizzy when he is severe. Last year, on the advice of the doctor, he posted a three-volt patch on a three-volt day, but he did not expect that the number of rhinitis attacks last winter was significantly reduced, so this summer he counted the days early and continued to paste.
Today, many hospitals offer triple-volt patch treatment. In the Hengjie Town Health Center in Haishu District, patients who have been posted with three volt stickers since the ambush are also in an endless stream. On Sunday morning, there was a long line at the entrance of the acupuncture department, all of whom came to apply the three-volt sticker.
Ms. Wang, who is more than 60 years old this year, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, and the joint pain is unbearable when it rains, especially in the winter when the cold wind blows. In 2018, under the recommendation of Dr. Ye of the Chinese Medicine Department of Hengjie Town Health Center, I began to paste a three-volt patch for a course of treatment, and I felt that rheumatism was not so serious in the first winter, and then the second and third years came again. "At first, I was half-convinced, what effect these few pills can play on my body." Ms. Li said that now she really feels that this treatment is very good.
As a traditional Chinese medicine therapy in China, the acupuncture point patch for the treatment of winter diseases in summer is based on the specific onset time of certain diseases, using the relationship between the time of day and health to carry out dialectical treatment, so as to achieve the effect of correcting the cultivation of the body and nourishing the yang qi. Acupuncture point patches for the treatment of winter diseases and summer can dredge the meridians, regulate qi and blood, encourage yang qi, regulate the function of human organs, and enhance the body's immunity.
Three-volt stickers are not suitable for everyone
Is such a red-hot three-volt sticker suitable for everyone? According to experts, the summer treatment of winter diseases is mainly aimed at the cold diseases that are easy to occur in winter. Such as pulmonary diseases in the body deficiency cold, chronic cough, chronic bronchitis, asthma, allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinitis, etc.; chronic gastritis, chronic enteritis, cold abdominal pain diarrhea, gynecological cold dysmenorrhea in the spleen and stomach diseases; other diseases such as old cold legs. Some sub-health conditions can also be regulated by the method of summer treatment of winter diseases, such as yang deficiency constitution with fear of cold as the main manifestation, qi deficiency constitution is weak and easy to fatigue, phlegm wet constitution is prone to drowsiness, stool and so on.
In terms of children's diseases, the three-volt patch is suitable for children over 3 years old with colds, asthma, allergic rhinitis, indigestion, abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Some people want to try the three-volt patch and worry about leaving burns on the skin. Experts said that the three-volt patch is mainly based on raw white mustard this drug to stimulate the acupuncture point skin to work, the old bottom of the winter disease summer treatment method, may leave a mark on the skin, and even produce blisters or scars. Considering the summer wound management and the modern pursuit of beauty, in recent years, doctors have been fine-tuning the formula of summer treatment of winter diseases, seeking a balance between achieving treatment effects and trying to maintain the beauty of the patient's body surface, and strive to achieve maximum effectiveness without scarring.
Experts remind that not everyone can paste the three-volt patch, such as diabetes control, allergies, skin trauma, ulcers, abscesses people with caution. It is also inappropriate for patients who are in the acute onset or aggravation period of certain diseases, such as tumors, serious cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, severe liver and kidney dysfunction, and tuberculosis patients. In addition, pregnant women, colds, fevers, mouth ulcers and other false fires should also be used with caution. Therefore, it is recommended to be carried out under the guidance of a TCM practitioner.
Reporters Shi Chengcheng, Fan Hong, Zhou Kona, Sun Meixing
Correspondents Huang Yueguang, Zhu Xien, Li Lejiong, Lou Xinrong, Zheng Ke, Ye Panyan