What are the customs of Wujiang and their advantages and disadvantages?

Wujiang is known as "Wu Gen Yue Kok", humanities collection, medical broadcasting, in the daily customs of the people, permeated with a rich culture of health. Now pick up a few examples, for the benefit of the readers:

First, Wujiang's "living customs" in the culture of health.

Wujiang's old house, like many other places in Jiangnan, tiles are black, the wall is white. The I Ching's Tai Gua " " shows that yin is on top and yang is on the bottom. Yin is heavy and sinking, and Yang is light and rising, so that it is a state of yin and yang intertwined. And the black color above the whitewashed house is yin and the white color below is yang, which is also a rendition of Tai Gua. This is a metaphor for human physiology and psychology should be like the house they live in, to maintain the state of yin and yang harmony, in order to maintain good health. Although there are not many old houses in Wujiang with a wall in front of the door, many of them have high thresholds, with stone drums guarding both sides of the door, and heavy millstones embedded in the wall facing the road. These are expressed to ward off the outside world of the house, especially through the road to the evil spirits, a metaphor for people should be prevented from disease, especially out of the road, more stringent prevention. It is also worth mentioning that the Wujiang folk after the separation of the house, the east side of the house to live in the brother, the west side to live in the brother. Because the older brother, the body gradually towards the convergence of the main, need to replenish the youthful vitality of the gas; younger brother, the blood is just, the body to the vitality of the main, need to be restrained with the convergence. The east is wood, can see the sunrise, the main hair; West is gold, can see the sunset, the main astringent. Therefore, the custom of "brother's east and brother's west" should be used to make up for the lack of it.

Secondly, Wujiang's "food custom" contains a culture of health.

Wujiang people encountered the lunar calendar "February 2", to eat the waist cake. The waist cake is like a waist muscle. The custom of eating the waist cake is to prepare our minds to work in the field, and exercise the waist, enhance the strength of the lumbar back muscles, then not afraid of lumbar pain, and not afraid of "flash waist". Wujiang people have the custom of eating chicken in winter. The beginning of winter, the weather turns cold, and the chicken and the original lack of local beef and mutton, is hot, can help people heat the cold. The important thing about this custom is not the eating of chicken itself, but the act of eating chicken in winter to remind people that winter is coming and they should pay attention to warming up their bodies. Wujiang people often say "eat radish in winter, eat ginger in summer, four seasons, no need to ask the doctor", is also a valuable health experience. In summer, people's Yang Qi exudes outside the body, and the body is relatively cold and wet, need to supplement the warmth of cold things, we need to eat more ginger. In winter, Yang Qi is collected in the body, and the body needs to be cooled and energized, so it is necessary to eat more radish. Whenever the plum season, Wujiang people will buy prunes to eat, prunes have a thirst, spleen and stomach effect, eat not only no harm to the spleen and stomach, and have the effect of detoxification and cold. The Compendium of Materia Medica recorded: "Yangmei can quench thirst, and the five organs, can cleanse the stomach and intestines, in addition to the troublesome evil gas." Wujiang people are also accustomed to the prunes soaked in a high degree of white wine, until the diarrhea, take the wine-soaked prunes to eat, the effect of diarrhea is better than medicine. I also noticed that the southwest Wujiang region in the New Year popular drink "three way tea", they are danji tea, smoked beans tea, tea tea leaves tea. The first danji tea is easy to be digested and absorbed by the body, you can come from afar in the freezing cold friends and relatives "refueling"; the second smoked bean tea with smoked green beans, carrot, orange peel, suzi, sesame seeds and many other tea materials, color, aroma, flavor, shape, and nutritional are good; the third tea leaf tea on the postprandial period, you can unleash the greasy, digestive.

Third, Wujiang's "customs" in the health culture.

Wujiang some sericulture area, the New Year's Eve candles are not lit to "wax torch into ashes", but to blow out half of its burning, in the next year when the start of sericulture lit, which allows it to burn to the end. This custom is a metaphor for the people at the end of the year, not to indulge in orgies, to leave a certain amount of energy, ready to put into the next year's production of labor (mainly sericulture) to go. In addition, Wujiang people often say "eat the Dragon Boat Festival palm, but also three frozen", is to remind people, after the Dragon Boat Festival, although the natural Yang has prevailed, but the Yin is still very strong, but also pay attention to warmth, so as not to suffer from the wind and cold. Wujiang people would describe a person who is concentrating on his work by saying that he is "hanging up in the center of the human body". What is "hanging up in the middle of a person"? We do teachers will find that students in the concentrate on listening to the lecture, the lower lip will support the upper lip up Nu, which is called "people in the hanging up". Because from the point of view of Chinese medicine, Renzhong is the body's two most important meridians: Ren vein and the intersection of the veins, we need to focus on unconsciously lift the middle of the man, the purpose is to make the Ren and Dudu two veins run more smoothly, so that the blood call up. This is the same principle that the people use when they pinch a person's middle finger after he faints.

In short, there are countless places in Wujiang customs that contain health culture. In today's world where we attach great importance to life and health, it is undoubtedly of great significance to inherit this rich cultural heritage of health care.