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What are the customs of the slight cold solar terms?

There are twenty-four traditional solar terms in China, and slight cold is one of them. During the slight cold, people tend to continue their previous customs to eat some food or do some things, but many people don't know much about the customs of the slight cold solar terms. So what is the custom of the slight cold solar terms? How does Han Xiao keep healthy? What are the customs of slight cold?

1, slight cold solar terms custom

(1) La Worship

"La Worship" in the slight cold solar terms is a very important activity in ancient times, and "pulling" means "harmony". La Worship offered sacrifices to all the gods. In the Zhou Dynasty, this custom was divided into two shrines, La and Dala, the ancestor La Worship and the great La Worship Hundred Gods. The second garrison day after beginning of winter is generally designated as "Zhengla", that is, from winter to the future 13 to 35 days, and not later than New Year's Eve. Because in most cases it is in the slight cold solar term, the December of the lunar calendar is also called the twelfth lunar month.

(2) Laba porridge

A long time ago, even now, China has a tradition of eating Laba porridge in the twelfth lunar month. The leap in September this year delayed the arrival of the Lunar New Year. In previous years, the slight cold solar terms were basically in the twelfth lunar month. Although we haven't reached the twelfth lunar month this year, it doesn't prevent us from trying to make Laba porridge ourselves. Northern Laba porridge is made of yellow rice, white rice, Redmi, millet, water chestnut, red beans and peeled jujube paste. And dyed with red peach kernel, almond, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and grapes. Laba porridge in the south is mixed with lotus seeds and longan. Because of the cold weather in the north, it is considered that eating lotus seeds and longan is easy to damage the spleen and stomach. Laba porridge in Taiwan Province Province is made of Penglai rice, lotus plums, longan, peanut kernels, lotus roots, raisins, shredded sugar papaya, osmanthus sauce and sugar.

(3) making laba vinegar garlic

In Laba Festival in northern China, garlic is soaked in vinegar to make Laba vinegar and Laba garlic. Not only delicious, but not bad after summer. In some areas of China, besides the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba is also celebrated on 18 and 28.

2, health points-to prevent getting angry

In winter, the air is dry, the human immunity is low, and people wear heavy clothes, which is easy to cause symptoms of excessive internal heat and oral ulcers. Here are three simple treatments.

(1) honey therapy

Clean your mouth, then apply honey to the ulcer surface with a sterile cotton swab, and do not eat or drink for the time being after application. 15 minutes or so, you can swallow it with honey and saliva, and then continue rubbing. You can rub it several times a day.

(2) Auricularia auricula therapy

Take Auricularia auricula, Auricularia auricula, Crataegus pinnatifida 10g respectively, decoct in water, and eat Auricularia auricula in soup, once a day 1~2 times.

(3) Apple therapy

Take apples (pears can also be sliced) and put them in a container. Add cold water (uncooked apples or pears) and heat until boiling. When they get a little cold, put wine in your mouth for a while before eating. It can improve your condition for a few days.

3. Xiaohan Miluo Health Journal

Old people often say that "it's three days in summer and three days in winter", and this is the key moment to strengthen exercise and improve physical fitness, because the human body relies on yang to resist cold and disease. Yang is abundant, all poisons will not invade, and all diseases will not be born. Slight cold is the time when the yang begins to grow, so we must do our homework to make the previous yang gradually strengthen.

4. The best prescription for tonifying kidney-yang with slight cold.

Meridian side: both hands knock back and forth along the trouser line.

Dietotherapy: Epimedium and Cuscuta chinensis are soaked in wine for 2 weeks, with a daily dose of 1 cup, until spring.

Yoga: Practice "Yoga Half Bridge" every day.

5. How does Xiao Han exercise?

1, abstinence and keeping the spirit

There are two kinds of desires: narrow desires and broad human needs. Abstinence here includes both.

(1) general abstinence

It is a kind of mind-calming, controlling fame and greed to keep the mind-set. People's needs involve both spiritual life and material life. If greed is excessive, God can't behave himself, which will certainly do harm to health. Therefore, in the cold winter, we should control our greed for fame and fortune.

(2) Abstinence in a narrow sense

Abstinence Slight cold is only the beginning of rising sun be the spirit. At this time, sexual intercourse should be restrained to make kidney yang flourish. Normal and temperate sexual life can not only strengthen the relationship between husband and wife, but also benefit physical and mental health, make people feel happy and help to keep fit. The control of desire should follow the laws of nature and maintain the coordination of yin and yang.

2. Pleasure and psychological adjustment

In cold weather, people are more likely to become lazy, so they need a happy mood to adjust their mentality and help their bodies. Pleasure and psychological adjustment are to eliminate the influence of various bad emotions, make people feel happy, and promote people's health and longevity through proper adjustment by God.

Step 3 keep an optimistic attitude

Optimism refers to the mental state of keeping people happy and comfortable and adapting to the external environment. Optimism is different from emotion and will. Optimism is mainly reflected in color, words, movements, eyes and even consciousness. Will is mainly reflected in work attitude, dealing with people and so on. To maintain an optimistic attitude, one is to achieve it through subjective efforts, and the other is to maintain harmony with the outside world.

4. Celebrate happiness and control anger

Happiness is the heart. A general degree of happiness can relieve tension, promote the harmony between qi and blood, and make you feel comfortable. If you are too happy, you will feel sad, which will make your heart relax and your spirit unprofessional, thus affecting the normal function of your mind.

Anger is the will of the liver. Proper anger can make people brave, but excessive anger can hurt the liver, or cause qi and blood disorder, and the mind has no owner. Therefore, it is very important to restrain anger, control emotions and adjust emotions. By adjusting emotions, reasonably controlling emotions and rationally restraining emotions, we can naturally alleviate the slight cold to the human body.

5. Think less and get rid of troubles

Thinking is a normal psychological activity of human beings, but excessive thinking can lead to many diseases. Mind should not be confused, God should not use it too much, thinking too much will hurt, and God will be tired if he uses too much. Focus on meditation and less desire, and eliminate distractions.