How to raise the summer solstice?
The three stages of the summer solstice are: "Antlers will be released; Second, wait for cicadas to start singing; Third-class Pinellia ternata. " Although Mi and Lu belong to the same family, the ancients thought they belonged to Yin and Yang. The deer's horn faces forward, so it belongs to Yang. On the solstice of summer, Yin Qi was born, and Yang Qi began to decline, so the front antlers began to fall off. Because mi is cloudy, it falls in the corner of the winter solstice. The second cicada began to sing, which wrote the ancient "Xun". There are many kinds of cicadas, such as good cicada (colorful cicada), big cicada in Tang Dynasty, cold cicada (autumn song) and Xia Chan (summer song). Xia Chan is also called cicada, and the male cicada flaps its wings from summer to the future. Pinellia ternata, born on the solstice of the third summer, is a shade-loving herb, named after being born in swamps or paddy fields in midsummer, and is also a negative plant. It can be seen that the custom of summer solstice is when the sun shines on it, and Yin Qi begins to be born in the following places. The so-called "life-and-death" season means that creatures who like Yin begin to reproduce, while those who like Yang will gradually die.
"Summer 99 Climate Song" said: "1929, Fan never left his hand; 3927, snow water is as sweet as honey; 4936, sweating like rain; 5945, dancing in autumn leaves; 6954, enjoy the cool and not enter the temple; 7963, go to bed to find sheets; 8972, consider covering the quilt; 998 1 year, every family plays charcoal sticks. " During the summer solstice before the Qing Dynasty, civil and military officials had to take a three-day vacation, go home to reunite with relatives and drink to escape the heat, which was called a "summer break".
Second, summer solstice health
The solstice in summer is really hot, and the amount of sweating is far greater than other solar terms. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweat is transformed from body fluid, and blood and saliva are homologous, so there is a saying that "blood and sweat are homologous", and blood is the master of the heart, so there is also a saying that "sweat is the liquid of the heart". Summer solstice is connected with heart qi, and sweating in summer is easy to make heart qi diverge, so Chinese medicine has the saying that "nourishing the liver in spring, regulating the heart in summer, nourishing the lungs in autumn and causing winter". "Su Wen? In particular, the theory of six Tibetan images says: "the heart is the foundation of life ... it is the yang in the yang and meets the summer air." "The so-called' heart is connected with summer qi' means that the physiological functions of the human heart and summer heart are relatively strong in summer, which is manifested in the fact that the heart governs the blood, and the blood is vigorous and runs smoothly; Increased sweat excretion; Yang is full, floating outside, and functional activities are also strengthened, so it is full of energy. Therefore, in order to better apply diet and health care in the hot summer, we must grasp the relationship between seasons and viscera, and replenish the energy consumed by the heart purposefully to protect the heart.
"Summer" is a seasonal disease, which mainly comes from summer heat and physical weakness. The ancient people's prevention of summer sickness was generally divided into two stages: the first stage began in the long summer, and there were many customs in this period. For example, Shanghainese have the custom of eating tea eggs on long summer days; The second stage starts from the summer solstice, which is called "the winter solstice and the summer solstice in jiaozi". Eating noodles until the sun in summer generally refers to noodles. In the north, it is mainly noodles with gravy and slag river.
Living in Ji Kang's "Theory of Health Preservation", he said: "It is more appropriate to adjust your breath and meditate. It is often like ice and snow in your heart, and the heat is also reduced. You can't turn heat into heat, but it is hotter." If you have ice and snow in your head, you won't feel hot. In order to adapt to the ups and downs of yin and yang in nature, it is generally advisable to go to bed late and get up early in summer, and try to keep about 7 hours of sleep every day.
Summer diet is hot, and people's digestive function is relatively weak. Therefore, the diet should be light and not fat, sweet and thick, eat more miscellaneous grains to make your body catch cold, and don't overeat hot food to avoid helping heat; Eating melons and fruits in cold sex should be enough, not overeating, so as not to damage the spleen and stomach; Products with strong flavor and high fat should be less than much, so as to avoid hot wind and stimulate the disease of boils.
Second, drink solstice tea in summer.
Green tea tastes bitter and cold. Drinking in winter is easy to cause stomach cold and may also affect appetite. When summer is hot, drinking green tea can just take its bitter and cold nature, relieve summer heat and quench thirst.
It is understood that green tea is unfermented tea, that is, fresh leaves are spread and dried and directly fried in hot pot. Catechin is the main component of tea polyphenols in green tea, and it is also an important antioxidant, which can scavenge harmful free radicals in human body, thus playing a strong role in preventing and improving the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Old people who drink more than three cups of green tea a day are not only less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease, but also have significantly higher overall memory, attention and language skills than those who drink less or no green tea at ordinary times. In addition, drinking green tea also has the functions of health preservation, anti-cancer, tooth strengthening, capillary protection and refreshing.