Light snow, the micro of things, rain into snow, heaven and earth at the beginning of cold, is the second solar term in winter, every year when the sun runs to the yellow longitude of 240 degrees is light snow. Light snow marks the beginning of the cold, with increasing rainfall and dark weather, when heaven and earth are closed and everything is in hiding.
The ancient people divided light snow into three Hou, which means that the rainbow disappears in the first hou, the weather rises in the second hou and the earth's atmosphere drops in the second hou, and the third Hou shuts down and becomes winter.
A rainbow hidden: the temperature continues to fall, the rainbow quietly hidden, easy to increase depression and cold feelings, should pay attention to the God meditation, so that the spirit.
The weather rises in the second Hou and the earth's qi drops: Yang qi rises in the sky and Yin qi falls in the earth. Yin and Yang qi run in opposite directions. Everything is blocked.
The third Hou becomes winter when heaven and earth are closed and it turns into a cold winter when everything is hidden but not drained. People should sleep early and get up late to protect the cold and the sun.
"Huangdi Neijing" cloud: "Winter March, this is called closed Tibetan. ... The response of winter Qi and the way to keep it..." "Zang" refers to the Yang qi is closed and hidden. The universe starts "Do not disturb". The way to keep healthy during light snow is "no disturbance and sudden Yang".
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Light snow in the traditional Chinese 24 Solar Terms
In cold days, everyone likes to eat hot food, the weather is cold, to have a hot pot is definitely the most enjoyable thing.
But need to remind everyone, too spicy food had better eat less, because winter is dry, it is easy to get angry. Especially after eating hot pot, back home, the use of floor heating, more likely to cause dry mouth and nose, so it is recommended that we can drink more hot soup, such as cabbage tofu soup, spinach tofu soup, mutton and white radish soup, both warm and nourishing.
In addition, cabbage, radish are seasonal food, rich in vitamins and a variety of trace elements, and white radish can clear fire and reduce qi, digestion, very suitable for consumption in this solar term.
Medicated diet for health
"Huangdi Neijing" says: "nourishing Yang in spring and summer, nourishing Yin in autumn and winter", winter medicinal diet is mainly nourishing Yin and clearing up. The following medicinal diet is recommended:
① Taizi ginseng stew chicken soup: this chicken half, Taizi ginseng 8g, onion ginger salt amount, cooked stew.
② Shenqi porridge: 5g ginseng, 15g wolfberry, 6 jujube, 100g japonica rice, porridge food.
③ Double ear soup: Tremella 10g, black fungus 10g, rock sugar amount, steamed cooked food.
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Light snow in the traditional Chinese 24 Solar Terms
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Keep warm from the cold
Although it is not the winter, but still pay attention to add clothes to keep warm, especially the head and feet, many people do not love the hat, scarf, in order to grace out of the ankle, a large extent will be infected with wind cold, so must pay attention to keep warm.
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Go to bed early and get up early
First, get enough sleep. If you do not rest after 1 PM, people's immunity is easy to decline, and the temperature drops significantly after the light snow solar term, too late to rest more likely to get sick.
Soak your feet in hot water every night and do a foot massage after soaking your feet in hot water. It can promote blood circulation and improve your body's ability to resist cold.
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Moderate exercise
It varies according to individual constitution and age. For example, people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should avoid playing ball games, mountaineering and other strenuous sports; People suffering from respiratory diseases, exercise should choose the morning, the afternoon when the sunshine is sufficient, to avoid the stimulation of cold, to prevent the occurrence of acute illness. Should pay attention to keep warm when going out, to avoid getting up too early to exercise, in order to prevent brain blood shortage induced stroke. In addition, try to moderate aerobic exercise.
In addition, the snow health, the important in raising, reinforcing essence, kidney, can choose Baicao Longfengbao, comply with nature, strengthen cold warm, reduce the consumption of energy and spirit, go to bed early and get up late, appropriate supplements, more sun, have a good mood.
