What is Sanjiu?
What is Sanjiu?
"March 9" is the third nine days from winter to the future, between 65438+ 10/2 and 65438+10.20. These nine days are the coldest season of the year. After the winter solstice, around March 9, the heat accumulated in the deep soil has been slowly exhausted. Although the surface gets more light and heat from the sun, it still cannot make ends meet. At this time, the cold air activity is the most frequent, so it is "the cold of March 9".
What's the saying about the winter solstice?
The ancients said that the winter solstice: when the cathode arrived, the yang began to grow, the sun went south, the day was short and the shadow was long, so it was called "the winter solstice". During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, it was stipulated that the day before the winter solstice was the end of the year, and the winter solstice festival was essentially equivalent to the Spring Festival. Later, the summer calendar was implemented. However, the winter solstice always ranks first among the 24 solar terms, which is called "year-divided".
What's the saying about the winter solstice?
Many areas have the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors during the winter solstice, and there are still some places such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang and southern Fujian that celebrate the winter solstice. In addition, people have predicted the future weather according to the weather quality and the arrival order of winter solstice.
Women should keep healthy and nourish the liver in winter.
Women are blood-based, and the liver is innate to women. For women, the importance of liver is self-evident. Gynecological diseases, such as eye-related diseases, meridian-related diseases and irregular menstruation of women, are often related to the liver.
Men need to raise kidneys in winter.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney has the functions of storing essence, controlling growth, development and reproduction, and controlling water and liquid metabolism, which is called "congenital foundation". Therefore, health care experts regard tonifying kidney as an important measure to prevent aging.
Winter solstice supplements are often warm.
Tonifying in winter conforms to the characteristics of "hiding" in season, which can reserve enough nutrition for the body and improve the physical quality. Because winter, especially after solstice, is dominated by cold weather, tonic is often to warm and tonify yang to resist cold evil. As the saying goes, "medicine is better than food", some dietotherapy that is often eaten in winter to the sun has a good effect of tonifying yang and preventing cold.
Nourish from four aspects.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, health care and nourishing in winter solstice can start from four aspects: invigorating qi, enriching blood, nourishing yin and strengthening yang. Qi-invigorating food refers to foods that have the effects of invigorating qi and spleen and tonifying qi deficiency syndrome, such as rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, yam, carrots, soybean milk, chicken and so on.
It is very necessary to do some outdoor sports properly.
However, you should go out after the sun appears to prevent excessive consumption of yang. At this time, in daily life, you should go to bed early and get up late. If you can arrange your daily life and rest reasonably in winter, you can maintain your spirit, and a proper amount of rest and rest can nourish kidney essence. Try to "walk fast, listen carefully, keep an eye on it, sit for a long time and lie tired".
Be firm in your happiness.
Winter health care, emotional health care is essential. Having a good mood is a good health medicine, which will make people feel warm in the cold winter, and the qi and blood of the body will be smooth, and there will be no stagnation and illness.