Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Sleep on the solstice in winter

Sleep on the solstice in winter

"Have a good sleep in the winter solstice night and play a good game in the summer solstice day." During the handover of the solar term, we should have a good sleep from the day before the solar term and take care of the rising of the sun.

Ancient health care attached great importance to the moment when the sun was born in winter. People think that when Yang is born, it should be carefully protected and nursed back to health, just like farmers' seedling raising and women's pregnancy, so as to make it grow sturdily. Therefore, only when the yang in the human body is sufficient can we achieve the goal of getting rid of diseases and prolonging life. Therefore, the winter solstice is well maintained and there will be no disease in the coming year. Seizing the opportunity of yin-yang communication between heaven and earth is like sowing a healthy seed.

In addition, the spring and summer are sunny and the climate is warm; It is cloudy in autumn and winter, and the climate is cold. Ancient health care attached great importance to the moment when the sun was born in winter. People think that when Yang is born, it should be carefully protected and nursed back to health, just like farmers' seedling raising and women's pregnancy, so as to make it grow sturdily. Therefore, only when the yang in the human body is sufficient can we achieve the goal of getting rid of diseases and prolonging life. Therefore, the winter solstice is well maintained and there will be no disease in the coming year. Seizing the opportunity of yin-yang communication between heaven and earth is like sowing a healthy seed.

The third month of winter is the period when the yang is gathering, and the arrival of the winter solstice is the time when the yin flourishes and the yang declines.

Therefore, on the solstice of winter, I go to bed at 2 1~23 o'clock in the morning and sleep deeply at 23~ 1 o'clock the next day. So when the yang enters the yin, I will have a good sleep.

Go to bed early, but get up late. First, wait until the sun rises. Get up when the sun rises and the yang is getting stronger, so as to avoid the cold hurting the yang.

For three consecutive days, deep sleep, let the body safely through the transformation of yin and yang.

The 15-day winter solstice solar term falls in November of the lunar calendar and is called "winter month" or "long month". "Shun" means that everything sleeps in winter, full but not fat. During this time, you might as well use every deep and full sleep to make your body from coarse to fine. Because in the twelfth lunar month, everything is "harassing" to prepare for spring, so there is no way to have a good sleep.