Little Cold, December Festival. The cold at the beginning of the month is still small, so the clouds, the half of the month is big.
- "The Seventy-Two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order"
Although the small cold is followed by the big cold, the old people all know that "the big cold is not cold and the small cold.". The little cold, often the coldest time of the year, is known as the "number nine cold days".
Although Xiao Han is cold, the yang qi is also slowly accumulating and rising, and there is a sound of life waking up. Small cold health, it is best to conform to the collection trend of nature, collect yin essence, nourish the kidney and prevent cold.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > phenological interpretation</h1>
Xiao Han has three waits: one waits for Yan Beixiang, the second waits for the magpie to start nesting, and the third wait for the pheasant to start the pheasant (gòu).
▣ Yanbei Township: The geese in the south began to migrate north. At this time, the yang qi has been born, and the geese fly north to avoid heat.
▣ Magpie nest: The yang qi begins to move, and the magpie braved the cold to start nesting, ready to breed offspring.
▣ Pheasant Chi chirps: "Pheasant" is a pheasant, and the pheasant in the mountains also senses the growth of yang qi and begins to chirp in search of companions.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > living regularly</h1>
Xiao Han, the coldest festival, is also a period of yin and evil.
Yin and evil hurt the body's yang qi the most, the body will lose this bit of yang qi to guard the city gate, the "root of the disease" in the body, cold and wet phlegm evil is like a de ling, committing chaos, easy to invade the respiratory tract, causing the recurrence or attack of cough and asthma.
Therefore, during the days when Xiao Han arrives in Lichun, he must eat, wear, warmly and sleep well, and keep the Yang Qi in his body to death.
▣ Keep your head warm
Chinese medicine believes that the head is the meeting of the yangs. This festival goes out, the head is particularly susceptible to cold, long-term accumulation of cold, especially easy to lead to the occurrence of diseases.
Therefore, paying attention to the warmth of the head is not only as simple as wearing a hat appropriately, but also in three or nine days, it is also very important to wash your hair before going out and before going to bed.
▣ Keep your feet warm
At the same time, as the saying goes, "cold is born from the feet", people are an organic whole, the foot can reflect the disease of internal organs, in turn, protecting the feet can increase the function of internal organs.
So don't think that foot warmth is local warmth, in fact, foot warmth is a kind of protection for the body as a whole against cold and disease.
In the clinic, it is found that many patients have the characteristics of cold feet, and the best way in life is to soak their feet with hot water before going to bed, and then rub the hearts of the feet hard.
In this way, it can not only keep warm and warm, but also strengthen the kidneys, relieve fatigue, and promote sleep.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > diet</h1>
Xiao Han is in the middle of winter, the soil is strong, and the kidney qi is weak, so it is advisable to reduce the sweetness and increase the bitterness in the diet, supplement the heart and help the lungs, and regulate the kidneys.
1. Dried fruit of bean valley
It is the basis of winter food supplements and can provide the body with enough calories to resist the cold. Winter is especially suitable for eating more red and black grains, such as red beans, black beans, black rice and so on.
In addition, seasonal dried fruits are also good tonics, such as chestnuts, red dates, etc., which can be eaten alone, can also be added when cooking soups, or mixed with various types of bean grain and dried fruits to cook porridge.
2. Meat
Meat is the most suitable food in winter, especially the best soup, which can play a tonic role and avoid greasy fat and sugar to increase the burden on the spleen and stomach. Such as beef and mutton soup, chicken soup, duck soup.
3. Warm food
According to the principle of Chinese medicine "autumn and winter to nourish the yin", "no disturbance to the yang", "the void is supplemented, the cold is warm", the small cold festival should eat more warm food to improve the cold tolerance of the human body.
At this stage, we must also pay attention to preventing the cold and dampness of the lower body, and do not let the cold and humidity take advantage of the weakness of the human body's yang qi to occupy the lower jiao territory. Here we recommend a small fennel pork belly porridge, which can warm up our body, replenish kidney yang, and eliminate the moisture of the lower body.
Fennel pork belly porridge
Ingredients: 30 g cumin seeds, 200 g pork belly, 200 g rice, appropriate amount of green onion, ginger, salt, cooking wine (2-3 servings).
method:
1: Wash the pork belly, rub it with salt and rinse it off. Put in boiling water, add ginger slices and cooking wine to remove fishy, blanch the water and fish out, cut into small pieces or shredded;
2, the cumin seeds in a gauze bag, together with the cut pork belly into the pot, add the right amount of water, first boil over high heat, and then change to low heat simmering for 30 minutes;
3: Discard the cumin seeds, add the washed rice, cook until the porridge thickens, add the appropriate amount of salt to taste, sprinkle with green onions.
The "Materia Medica" records: "Fennel, the medicine of warm and fast qi", its spicy fragrance is evacuated, can rationalize the qi and stomach, the sex is warm and strong, can disperse cold and relieve pain, and has the effect of warming the liver and kidneys and warming the stomach. Therefore, in the cold weather, eat more cumin can drive away cold evil and greatly supplement kidney yang.
If you use the previous pot with salt water to fry dry, and then boil the soup and porridge, the role of the kidney will be stronger.
The role of pork belly is also important. Pig belly taste sweet, slightly warm, into the spleen, stomach meridians, there is a deficiency, spleen and stomach function. The "Materia Medica" records that "pig belly, for the spleen and stomach to supplement the essential products, the spleen and stomach to supplement, then the qi benefit.".
Therefore, many people with stomach pain and bad stomach can use pork belly to regulate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > traditional custom</h1>
It is said that in the early years, whenever the farmers in the Yellow River Basin were cold, they used the "Nine-Nine Cold Map" to avoid cold health.
The north is a little cold, and most of the area is in the winter break. During this period, you can do a good job in the vegetable cellar, keep the livestock house warm, and make fat and accumulate fertilizer at home.
Pickles are the way northerners store food in winter
Experienced farmers will speculate on the climate of the coming year at this time, using the slightly cold climate, and make plans early. In Shandong, there is a saying that "there is no rain in the small cold, and the drought in the summer" and "if the small cold is a cloudy day, the spring will be a dry year".
▣ Nanjing: Eat vegetable rice
In Xiaohan, old Nanjing generally cooks vegetables and eats. The content of the rice is not the same, it is used for short-legged yellow green vegetables and bacon slices, sausage slices or plate duck cubes, and then chopped some ginger grains and glutinous rice together to cook, fragrant and delicious.
▣ South: Eat sticky rice
There is a tradition in Guangzhou where Xiao Han eats sticky rice in the morning. In order to avoid glutinous rice from being indigestible, 40% of the glutinous rice is generally fragrant rice, which is fried with chopped bacon sausage, added with green onion and sautéed peanut rice and eaten together in rice.
Since the glutinous rice itself has a higher sugar content than rice, the whole body will feel warm after eating, which means warmth. After eating sticky rice, it is warm all year round.
▣ Worship the ancestors of heaven
During the coldest season of the year, northerners like to eat a magical fruit, the frozen pear. This is a kind of pear frozen in the ice and snow, it looks black and ugly, ugly and cute, but the cold sweetness of the mouth makes everyone who eats it unforgettable.
People often joke, "Pears can't be eaten separately because it represents separation." But frozen pears are interesting — because freezing "away" means never separating.
In the cold season, the old age is nearly twilight, the new year is coming, when cleaning up the mood, we must also keep calm and worry, and achieve peace!
"The plague began with heavy snow, originated on the winter solstice, was born in the small cold, grew up in the big cold, flourished in the spring, weaker than the rain, faded in the sting, finished in the spring equinox, and died in the Qingming..." The epidemic is often repeated in this festival, and it is still necessary to pay attention to strengthening resistance and resisting the invasion of foreign evils.
At the beginning of 2021, may the clouds open and the epidemic disperse and all beings be safe!