What is the date of the heavy snow solar term in 2022?
How to keep fit in snowy days?
Eat more cold food.
After entering the "heavy snow" solar term, it means that it will enter the middle of winter, and keeping out the cold has become the top priority. According to experts, people who are afraid of cold should wear more clothes to keep warm and eat more foods containing iron and iodine, such as beef and mutton, black fungus, jujube, milk and jellyfish, which will help improve their ability to keep out the cold. Patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, arthritis and digestive system diseases should pay more attention to cold and warmth.
Keep warm and protect your head, chest and feet.
The head, chest and feet of human body are most vulnerable to cold evil. Female friends wear vests in winter to protect their shoulders from cold. For people with poor cervical spine, it is very important to wear high-necked clothes in winter and scarves when going out. As the saying goes, "cold starts from the first step", the feet are farthest from the heart, the blood supply is slow and less, the subcutaneous fat is thin, and the cold protection ability is poor. Special attention should be paid to keeping feet warm in the snowy season, and soaking feet with hot water before going to bed at night is a good fitness method.
Heavy snow custom
Snow bacon
There is a saying called "light snow pickles, heavy snow pickles", and one of the customs of heavy snow solar terms is bacon. "Before the Chinese New Year, the eaves were fattened first", which means that during the heavy snow and solar terms, many residents will find bacon and sausages hanging on the doorways and windowsills, forming a beautiful scenery. Every household should be busy pickling "salty goods" as soon as the solar term of heavy snow arrives. Whether it is poultry or seafood, fresh raw materials are processed into delicious food by traditional methods to welcome the coming New Year. The custom of heavy snow bacon is related to Nian beast, just like the origin of firecrackers. Nian is a fierce monster with sharp horns. It has lived under the sea for many years, but every New Year's Eve, it will climb ashore and hurt people. In order to avoid injury, people stay indoors at the end of each year, so they come up with ways to preserve and store meat, while fresh vegetables are preserved by air drying.
Decorative river closure
"Light snow seals the land and heavy snow seals the river". In the north, there is a natural landscape of "thousands of miles frozen, Wan Li snowing". In the south, there is also a charming picture of "snowflakes dancing and white clothes wrapped". In the solar term of heavy snow, the ice in the river freezes, and people can skate and play as much as they like.
Heavy snow tonic
Heavy snow is a good time to "tonic", but don't just supplement nutrition, eat different foods according to the region and weather. Duck and fish are suitable for warming up in places where it is not too cold in the south of the Yangtze River. The climate in the north is cold, so mutton and beef can be used to replenish vitality and increase the ability to keep out the cold. If the weather continues to be dry, sweet foods such as rock sugar and lily should be added when nourishing to act as a "fire extinguisher" to prevent the body from getting angry. Before and after the heavy snow and solar terms, a large number of citrus fruits went on the market. Eating some properly can prevent rhinitis, eliminate phlegm and relieve cough.
Drink sweet potato porridge.
There is a folk saying in northern Shandong that "people only drink red sticky porridge", which means that when it is cold, they no longer visit their homes, but only drink warm sweet potato porridge at home. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Sweet potato can tonify deficiency and benefit qi, strengthen spleen and stomach, and strengthen kidney yin". Modern medicine believes that sweet potato is rich in protein, amino acids, dietary fiber, carotene and vitamins, which can effectively prevent the loss of calcium. In addition, sweet potato contains a lot of dietary fiber, which can effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis and secretion of digestive juice, and reduce the incidence of intestinal diseases. It's delicious and healthy to drink hot sweet potato porridge when it snows.