A slight cold, a year passed.

Time flies, the days pass quietly through my fingers, and then pass in a blink of an eye. Yesterday, the slight cold, the penultimate solar term among the 24 solar terms, arrived as scheduled.

Since then, the body has gradually felt colder and colder. The trousers are thickened again, and the legs are the last cold, which is what my mother said.

But the most profound thing in my memory is what my mother said, "A slight cold and a severe cold will be over in one year." At that time, I never understood why my mother said that, and I didn't seem to think about it. Later, I understood that the slight cold was followed by the great cold, and the arrival of the great cold meant that the new year was coming, and the new year was coming soon. Therefore, just thinking about it at that time, I was particularly excited and especially looking forward to the New Year.

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Now, I'm no longer looking forward to and excited. But I know that winter and March are the seasons when vitality lurks and everything hides. At this time, the metabolism of yin and yang in the human body is also in a rather slow time, so at this time, we should go to bed early and get up late, don't disturb the yang spirit easily, don't overwork everything, hide our thoughts in the deep heart, avoid impatience and irritability, and focus on "hiding".

During this period, you should also control your mental activities, keep your spirit quiet, hide God inside, and don't expose it outside. Pay attention to keep warm. When you go out, you must wear a coat, a mask, a hat and a scarf. The room should be ventilated sooner or later. Drink plenty of boiled water to replenish water in the body.

"A slight cold is enough for one year", I recalled my mother's words, which made sense. Seasonal cycle, the time is long and unchanged. Those memories, those beautiful things, are becoming clearer and clearer in memory. . .