Where can I not see the lanterns? - Health preservation during the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival

[Tang Dynasty] Cui Ye

Don't rush the jade clock and silver pot,

The iron gate and golden locks are completely opened.

Who can sit idly by while seeing the moon?

Where can I hear the light and not come to see it?

【Poetry Appreciation】

"Shang Yuan Ye" is a poem by Cui Ye, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Shang Yuan Ye refers to the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, also known as the Lantern Festival. my country has a long-standing custom of watching lanterns during the Lantern Festival. This ancient poem describes the prosperous scene of watching lanterns during the Lantern Festival in Chang'an, the capital of the time.

Stop urging the jade clock and silver kettle for now. The palace gates and the golden locks will remain open until dawn. Who can sit and do nothing when seeing the bright moon? Who would not come to see the lantern festival when they hear about it?

【Health Interpretation】

Folk activities are beneficial to health

During the lively Lantern Festival, in addition to eating rice dumplings, many folk activities add joy and peace to this festival. Many folk activities of the Lantern Festival have the function of health care, which you can experience yourself.

Guessing lantern riddles: Exercise the cervical spine, strengthen the brain and improve intelligence. Every Lantern Festival, lantern riddles are played in various places. Riddles can enlighten wisdom and are interesting. During the process of spreading, they are deeply welcomed by people from all walks of life.

The lanterns in Nanjing Confucius Temple are well-known throughout the country. Every year during the Lantern Festival, the lanterns are brightly lit. Many tourists come to enjoy the lanterns and feel the strong folk atmosphere of the festival. Generally, the lanterns are hung relatively high, which is both beautiful and relatively safe. Therefore, many people look up when they enjoy the lanterns. For those who often work at their desks, the process of enjoying the lanterns is a good way to move the cervical spine. As the neck moves up and down, the cervical spine is naturally relaxed. If you guess lantern riddles, it can increase the health care effect of brain health and intelligence.

Walking away all diseases: relax muscles and refresh the mind, keep the body and mind healthy. Walking away all diseases is also called traveling for all diseases, dispersing all diseases, roasting all diseases, walking on bridges, etc. It is an activity to eliminate disasters and pray for health. On the night of the Lantern Festival, women make appointments to go out and walk together. They must cross any bridge they see, believing that this can eliminate diseases and prolong life. Walking away all diseases is a custom in the north since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some people do it on the 15th, but most of them do it on the 16th. On this day, women wear festive costumes, walk out of their homes in groups, walk across bridges to cross dangers, climb the city walls, touch nails to pray for children, and do not return until midnight.

"Walking away all diseases" is the simplest and most economical way to keep fit. Cao Tingdong, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Laolao Hengyan": "Sitting for a long time will cause stagnation of collaterals, while walking will relax the muscles and strengthen the body. Walking leisurely will make you energetic and strong." Whether young or old, "Walking away all diseases" is a cheap fitness prescription worth promoting. When "Walking away all diseases", the venue has good air and a wide field of vision; the upper and lower limbs move in coordination, and deep and even breathing is coordinated. Healthy people can "walk away all diseases" at a pace of more than 120 steps per minute, which has a significant exercise effect on the body.

Rowing a land boat: relieves stress and dredges the meridians. The land boat is mostly performed in rural farmers' homes. During the Chinese New Year, it starts on the first day of the first lunar month and ends on the second day of the second lunar month (Dragon Head-raising Festival). This form of prayer is used to pray for good weather and good luck in the coming year.

Land boat rowing can very accurately train the strength and endurance of the waist and back muscles, effectively improve the physiological activity of the waist and back muscles and the connective tissue covering the muscles, and make people feel "relieved".

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many acupoints on the waist and back, such as Dazhui, Zhiyang, Quyuan, Yaoyangguan, Taodao, Jizhong, Tianzong, Shenzhu, Zhichuan, Mingmen, Yaoshu, Ganshu, Shenshu, etc., which almost cover the important acupoints of the internal organs. Practicing the "land boat" exercise can directly puncture these acupoints, which helps to unblock the tendons and veins, and thus achieve the effect of stretching the qi and boosting the spirit.

It is not realistic for most people to frequently participate in outdoor land rowing, so you can do some simple land rowing exercises with your bare hands. However, you need to pay attention to the speed from slow to fast for the first 5 minutes of each exercise, so as to ensure that the waist and back are fully active without injury. The strength of each row should be from small to large, and don't rush.

The Lantern Festival is another traditional festival of reunion after the Spring Festival. Throughout the ages, eating Lantern Festival dumplings has always been the theme of this day. However, with the continuous improvement of people's living standards and the damage to the stomach and intestines caused by excessive eating during the Spring Festival, many people find it difficult to taste more of this food full of reunion meanings on this day. Experts suggest that you might as well eat some common round fruits and vegetables in this season, which also have the meaning of reunion and are very healthy!

"Round Vegetable" Cabbage: Clears the meridians and prevents gastric ulcers. Cabbage was already recorded in the Tang Dynasty Chinese medicine book "Compendium of Materia Medica", when it was called Western Blue. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it can "replenish the bone marrow, benefit the five internal organs, clear the meridians, improve the eyesight, strengthen the heart, and strengthen the bones and muscles." Now nutritionists believe that cabbage contains a lot of vitamin U-like substances, which can prevent and treat gastric ulcer pain. Vitamin U is also called methylthiocarbamide chloride, which is an anti-ulcer agent mainly used to treat gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers. People who eat foods that hurt their stomachs during the holidays may want to eat some dishes made with cabbage during the Lantern Festival.

"Round vegetables" water chestnuts: antibacterial, antipyretic, and purgative. Hot water chestnut and rock sugar drink is a delicious drink. The skin of water chestnuts is purple-black, the flesh is white, the taste is sweet and juicy, crisp and delicious. It has been known as the "underground snow pear" since ancient times, and northerners regard it as the "Jiangnan ginseng".

Water chestnuts are rich in protein and carbohydrates, but not very high in calories, making them suitable for early spring consumption. Chinese medicine believes that water chestnuts are cold foods that have the effect of clearing internal heat and have a good antipyretic effect for patients in the early stages of fever. Eating some water chestnuts can also promote the development of teeth and bones in young children.

The preparation of water chestnut and rock sugar drink is very simple and can be made at home. Use 150 grams of water chestnuts, 150 grams of sugar cane, and 30 grams of rock sugar. Peel the water chestnuts and sugar cane and wash them, put them in a pot, add appropriate amount of water and rock sugar, and cook until the water chestnuts and sugar cane are cooked.

"Round Fruit" Orange: Sober up, stop vomiting, prevent stroke. Many people cannot avoid drinking around the Lantern Festival, and the temperature difference between morning and evening is relatively large during this period. If some patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases do not pay attention to maintenance, they may be at risk of stroke. In the food therapy book "Food Nature Materia Medica" from the Southern Tang Dynasty, there is a round fruit called orange. Chinese medicine believes that it has the effects of "stopping vomiting, relaxing the chest, eliminating goiter, sobering up, and killing fish and crab poisons". It is also one of the must-have fruits for many families during the Lantern Festival.

However, it is not advisable to eat too much oranges. For example, the Kaibao Materia Medica warns that eating too much oranges will damage the liver qi. The Gangmu Shiyi warns that "people with qi deficiency and scrofula should not eat oranges."

"Round Fruit" Apple: Good for the stomach, good for the spirit. Apples are mentioned in the famous Ming Dynasty Chinese medicine book "Yunnan Materia Medica", which has the effects of "good for the stomach, good for the spirit, good for the spirit, good for the spirit, and good for the spirit". "Yunnan Materia Medica" records: "Apple stew paste is called Yurongdan, which can clear the five internal organs, flow through the twelve meridians, regulate the Yingwei and clear the mind, relieve plague and stop cold and heat." However, "Famous Doctors' Records" warns not to eat too much, because "eating too much will make people swollen, especially patients."

Office workers who do mental work are prone to lack of oxygen and fatigue. If they can take a lunch break and eat an apple, it will help to boost their spirits. This is because apples have a natural aroma that helps relieve stress. In addition, apples contain the mineral boron, which can quickly restore the sleepy brain to a state of wakefulness. People with cold stomachs can wash apples and soak them in warm water for about 5 minutes before eating to avoid cold stomach and intestines.