From 10:38 this morning, it officially entered the great cold festival, as the saying goes, "the cold is in the middle of the month, the spring is cold and fierce", its appearance means that the coldest day of the year is coming.
The great cold belongs to the last of the 24 solar terms, and the arrival of the great cold also means that everything in the world will enter a new round of solar cycle, so the great cold is also an important alternate moment of preparation.

The cold arrives, we are one step closer to the New Year, every household is already preparing for the hoarding of New Year goods, in addition, we must also do a good job of cold protection, in addition to adding clothes, diet should also pay attention to more intake of high-calorie, warm ingredients. The older generation pays attention to "drinking 2 red, eating 1 white, and avoiding 3 things" in order to be healthy and spend the New Year safely, let's see what it means, and remember to tell the family.
▶ Drink 2 red
★ The first: drink black tea
The older generation pays attention to the timely health, drinking tea is the best way to maintain health, it is currently in winter, generally prefer to drink black tea, not only warm the stomach, but also means festive, enthusiastic, and healthy. In addition, black tea is a fully fermented tea, temperate, and is very suitable for drinking in autumn and winter.
After entering the winter, I often drink black tea, the most loved is the fairy mist phoenix tea, every morning and evening will come to a cup, warm and stomach, very comfortable.
This is a Sichuan tea, the same origin as the famous Sichuan black tea, both from the high mountain tea garden in Yibin Junlian County. As the saying goes, "good tea from the ancient mountains", the tea garden is above 800 meters, the clouds and mist, the temperature difference between day and night, less diseases and insect pests, is conducive to the accumulation of organic matter in tea plants, so the organic substances contained in it are also 2 times that of general black tea.
This tea belongs to one of the famous ten famous teas in Sichuan "Tianfu Dragon Bud" series, tea farmers adhering to the original intention of making tea, always want to make an affordable, consumers can afford to drink ration tea, so it takes the people-friendly route, the price of a box of less than 100 yuan, can meet the needs of the vast majority of people.
Its dried tea is hand-picked fresh bud leaves made, the cord is thick and firm, the color is dark and oily, the gold is revealed; after the hot water is brewed, the tea soup orange and yellow are translucent, close to the mouth of the cup can smell a fragrance of flowers and fruits, giving people a very comfortable feeling; the entrance is smooth, sweet and full, and the body instantly warms up.
★ The second kind: drink four red soup
As the saying goes, "a small cold and a big cold do a mess", at this time it is still in three or nine days, even if there is no wind, it can feel very cold.
Many northerners will drink four red soup on this day, in fact, it is the red skin peanuts, red dates, red beans, brown sugar with rice together to boil porridge, in the cold season, drink a bowl of four red soup, qi and blood, can also help resist the cold, drink the body warm and whirring.
▶ Eat 1 white
Tangyuan
Tangyuan is a dessert made of glutinous rice flour, and the main ingredients used are peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar, butter and so on.
As the saying goes, "peace skin bag is filled with ruyi, ice and snow do not feel cold", which means that eating tangyuan can make you feel the cold in winter. Especially in the south, on the day of the great cold, there is a habit of eating tangyuan, and tangyuan also means that everything is perfect and reunited.
▶ 3 things to avoid
Thing #1: Don't go to bed late and get up early
The temperature difference between cold day and night is relatively large, from the perspective of living, we must rest as early as possible and get up late, which is also to conform to the characteristics of "hiding" in the winter season, going to bed early is to accumulate yang qi, getting up late is to accumulate yin qi, to put it bluntly, it is to nourish and recharge.
In addition, we must also pay attention to do a good job of cold protection and warmth, as the saying goes, "three nine four nine ice walking, cold and warm can not be lost", pay attention to the abdomen to be covered with a quilt when sleeping, especially the spleen and stomach are weak, afraid of cold, often diarrhea friends should remember.
Thing #2: Don't exercise strenuously
Strenuous exercise sweating too much is easy to consume gas and hurt the yin, but it is not good for our physical health, winter due to the indoor and outdoor temperature difference is relatively large, some of the elderly who get up early at five or six o'clock to start outdoor exercise, and this time the body is most susceptible to cold stimulation, so that blood pressure rises faster.
Therefore, it is recommended that everyone exercise is best to choose to do it at more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and it is better to sweat slightly when exercising.
Thing #3: Don't get emotional
In the cold season, everything is depressed, and it is close to the New Year, many people will always calculate their gains and losses in the past year, and if their careers are not successful, they will be even more lonely. Coupled with the short time of day, people's feelings about the night are becoming more and more obvious at this time, which is easy to cause people to worry, so we need to adjust our emotions and greet the new year and new atmosphere with a happy mood.