Three-volt days in 2023:
July 11-20, 10 Heavens
July 21-August 9, 20
Suebushi August 10-August 19, 10 Heavens
Saying to keep warm in the heat of summer seems like a silly word. In such weather, where there is an ice cream, an ice drink, and an air-conditioned room, it will be cold to the bones in a short time.
However, throughout the year, cold and summer come and go, not only refers to the cold and summer between heaven and earth, but also refers to the cold and summer of the body. Just like looking out the window at this moment, the sun is hot to white, the air is stuffy, and then recall the well water of the farmer's house, it should be cold to the eyes!
Our body is also "hot outside and cold inside" in hot summer, especially on three-volt days. Too many cold drinks, iced fruits, etc., can quench a momentary thirst and enjoy a momentary refreshment, but it will only be cold.
In Chinese medicine, health preservation is a gentle process, talking about "the unity of heaven and man", yang qi is born in spring and flourishes in summer, why not take advantage of the good days of the three volt days, we will "warm up the body" together!
"Zunsheng Baji Summer Regency News Theory" recorded: "After the summer solstice, the night is overcast, it is advisable to take hot things, and also take kidney tonic decoction." The three-volt day begins on the third day of the summer solstice.
The so-called "volt" means that the yin qi is forced by the yang qi to hide in the ground, and the world is hot outside and cool inside, and so is our body. "Suitable for hot things" refers to the ability to eat some hot ingredients and spices, ginger and perilla, which will not make our body cold, but a kind of warmth, but also sweating.
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【Ginger and Shallot Chicken】
The food is spicy and warm
In Guangdong, you eat chicken all year round, and a white cut chicken is light and does not need anything, just chicken flavor and a small bowl of ginger and onion sauce.
The kind of broiler chicken that comes out within a few months of eating feed cages will definitely be rejected by Cantonese people. Fluffy chicken has no soul, only a firm chicken can withstand the experience in the broth, and then withstand the watering of ice water, and finally become crispy and smooth, and the chicken is white and red.
The last dish of ginger and shallot sauce is the soul sauce of summer. In addition to stimulating the aroma of meat, it is more like the saying "eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer". The strong spicy taste warms our spleen and stomach and drives away cold moisture in the body.
The first health dish of summer, spicy and warm.
【Perilla yellow eel】
Wind chill, warmth
The eel is fat and delicious. As the saying goes: "Summer yellow eel race ginseng." "It is easy to hurt qi in hot summer, so it is advisable to eat yellow eel to replenish yang, nourish blood, and replenish weakness.
In my hometown, fried yellow eel likes to put a taste of perilla, the light purple figure with the stem together to pick and clean, throw into the pot and stir-fry together, the warm spicy and cool aroma occupies the kitchen and nasal cavity. Perilla, warm and cold, eating with yellow eel always warms the body.
【Lamb dumplings】
Eat sheep to replenish the yang, sweat and drive away evil spirits
"Toufu dumplings, erfu noodles, and end-volt flapjack roll eggs." Eating dumplings is because the summer is too hot, long-term sweating leads to overdraft of the human body, and dumplings contain protein, which can well supplement nutrition and energy.
The days including Fuyin are also "Fuyang", and Xuzhou Pengzu starts the Fuyang Festival from the beginning of the year every year. Although Sanfutian is inside the evil spirit, it is also a day when the yang energy disperses, eating sheep to supplement the sheep, drinking a bowl of hot dumpling soup, you can also sweat, and drive away the "yin and evil" accumulated in winter and spring.
Sanfu has troubles and heat, so he loves to chase the cold. But we don't advocate pouring ice into the stomach every ton, because our body is hot outside, the well water is cool, health is to make the body warm inside, the real comfort is to balance the body.
【Drink hot tea】
Hot tea to cool off, cool yourself
When how much water and drinks you drink on a three-volt day doesn't help, a cup of tea is just right. Oolong tea, fully fermented black tea, black tea is the most suitable, they are all fermented to a certain extent or completely, relatively peaceful, less cold, very suitable for us who are "hot outside and cold inside" at this moment.
Secondly, hot tea is most suitable. Xiangzi of "Camel Xiangzi" pulled a cart in Sanfutian in Beiping, his mouth was dry and he was about to burst into flames, but the more he drank, the thirstier he became, and he had no choice but to run to the tea house, "Two pots of hot tea drank, and his heart was quieter." ”
As soon as the hot tea is poured, the heat will come out, just like the "Seven Bowls of Tea Song" said thousands of years ago: "Five bowls of clear muscles and bones, seven bowls of only two armpits to learn the breeze." "The real relief from heat is to empty the body's dirty qi, turbid qi, and hot air, and balance the sodium and potassium in the blood.
【Yellow Drink】
Sweet and sour, quench thirst
This small fruit seems to be endemic to Guizhou and south of Lingnan, and many outsiders do not know it, which is very niche. Unlike lychee's yang qi, which is easy to catch fire if you eat too much, "Guangzhi" says it: "Eliminate food, rationalize qi, and remove summer heat." ”
As a southerner, I like to smell yellow bark, spicy but not strong, and a little bitter and slightly cool. Many people are afraid of acid, but in fact, sweet and sour are very thirsty.
Add a little salt to press out the juice, add honey water, stir purified water, put it in the refrigerator to stand, drink when it is cold and cold, it can gurgle and replenish the missing water, both quench thirst and regulate qi.
【Drink green soup】
Cool and cool, relieve troubles and heat
A treasure of Sanfutian, and mung bean soup. Mung beans, which can clear the heat, dry heat, worry heat, and can also lower the heart, are people's favorite good beans for all ages.
You can add stomach-nourishing rice to boil together, white rice mung beans and transparent water together to boiling water to churn, a cool pot is pleasant to look at, grind into porridge soup, add some rock sugar, stand to cool, thick with dark green color soup, make people feel comfortable.
A summer relieving trick, a light simplicity is enough, because to calm the mind, you don't need too complicated taste.
The ancients said: "Never tire of the day." "Don't be afraid of the sun, although it brings sweat, heat waves, heat, heat, but also plenty of yang. On days full of yang, the body can be quickly and effectively warmed, and it is also the most direct way to warm up.
【Tanning back】
Keep cold and warm
Before the three-volt day came, some people were worried about the great sun, but there were also people who rejoiced. Do a good job of sun protection, wear a hat, go up to the roof and unfold the yoga mat, lie down and dry your back.
The morning sun was not too strong, there was a breeze, more than ten minutes, the back was hot, and there were small beads of sweat on the forehead. When the sun is shining outside, the cold qi in the body is easily crushed and disintegrated by "warm" and "hot".
Three volts in the sun, very good to break the cold and get wet, this is called warm nourishment. After the sun, it seems that you can detect the yang entering the body, from the back down to the waist, and then to the thighs and calves, even in the air-conditioned room, you feel warm all the way and feel so comfortable.
The "Examination of Xiu Kunlun" records: "In the sun, noon, and early hours, naked in the scorching sun, no matter how big or small the new diseases, can heal and remove the roots, that is, women's menstruation, can also sunbathe, and through the heavens and the earth to cultivate the divine work, it is difficult to describe." Do not cover your garments, but cause heat. ”
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Sanfutian also has a trick to tan the back:
1. Back drying time, the best time is 9 o'clock ~ 11 o'clock; Noon, 11 o'clock ~ 1 o'clock; Not timely, 1 ~ 3 o'clock.
2. Duration of back sunburning: pay attention to step by step, the first 10 minutes, gradually increase the number of times to 15, 20, 30 minutes, until the back is hot but not burned, if you feel unwell halfway, stop immediately to avoid heat stroke.
3. In the sun: it is best to dry naked, and you can also wear clothes to dry when there are no conditions, but it needs to be loose and breathable.
4. Pay attention after sunburning: do not immediately blow cold wind, air conditioning wind, do not drink ice water cold water, so as to avoid wind and cold invasion. You can dry sweat, rest quietly, drink room temperature water, or supplement electrolyte water at room temperature.
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【Take a walk】
When you are troubled, walk until your heart warms
If the body is not suitable for the sun, we can also walk until the body is warm.
As the saying goes: "Practice three nine in winter, practice three volts in summer." "Choose a time when the sun is not very violent, Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty likes to eat early in the morning "under the walking corridor", the weather is good in the evening "in front of the door", and the sunny and windless days are more "suitable for walking".
More than half an hour, about an hour, the body sweats slightly, the forehead is fine droplets, and the footsteps are just tired.
When people take a walk, their mood also warms. There is no need to think about work and troubles, the wind rustles through the leaves, brings the fragrance of gardenias, frogs sing in hot summer, the sound is lively and vigorous, and I feel that life is rich.
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【Sleep】
Go to bed early and get up early, and have nothing to do
Sleeping doesn't seem to be a difficult task, everyone needs it, everyone has to sleep.
But the Zen master said, "Hunger comes to eat, sleepiness comes to sleep." Some people "refuse to eat when eating, think a hundred things, refuse to sleep when they sleep, and make a thousand calculations." Thinking a lot, stressing, and playing with your phone before going to bed is really difficult.
But the three-volt day is long and the night is short, sweating, the body's energy is lost, it is easy to lose, and if you do not rest and nourish in time, it is easy to lose, and the gain is not worth the loss.
On three days, it is advisable to go to bed early and get up early.
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Today's three-volt day has begun, the bitter summer has always been like this, I wish everyone take care of themselves, eat well, drink warm, sleep beautifully.
The long summer was smooth and safe.
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