The beginning of winter | cold, let junan is good

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The twenty-four solar terms "author | ying-jie song

"The beginning of winter"

(Ming wang 穉)

The autumn wind blows away the old court Ke, yellow leaves Dan maple guest.

A little Zen lamp half round month, cold tonight more than yesterday night.

The Start of winter represents the beginning of winter. It is one of the seasonal nodes that Chinese people attach great importance to. Winter is a season to enjoy harvest and recuperation. The Start of Winter is also one of the "Four Shi Eight festivals" in ancient society. It is a very important festival. In some parts of China, there are customs such as ancestor worship and feasting.

Wu Cheng, a scholar in the Yuan Dynasty, compiled a Collection of the Seventy-second Pentads of the Lunar Season. He divided the twenty-four solar terms of the year into seventy-two pentads, with each solar term divided into three pentads.

The third hou of Start of winter is: "The first hou begins to freeze with water; The first freeze in the second hou; Three times the pheasant was a mirage."

It means that the water has turned into ice; The land began to freeze; A pheasant is a large bird such as a pheasant and a mirage is a large clam. After the start of winter, large birds such as pheasants are rare, but large clams with similar lines and colors of shell and pheasants can be seen on the seashore. So it is thought that the pheasant turns into a giant clam after the start of winter.

The beginning of winter custom

sacrifice

The Start of Winter is one of the "four hours and eight festivals" in ancient society. It is a very important festival. In some parts of China, there are customs such as ancestor worship, feasting, and making sacrifices to the spirits of ancestors with seasonal delicacies, so as to fulfill the obligations and responsibilities of people's descendants and pray for a good harvest from heaven.

Eat dumplings

In the north of China, there is a custom of eating dumplings during the Start of Winter. On this day to improve your life, dumplings are not delicious. In the north, it is customary to eat dumplings at the start of winter. Because dumplings look like ears outside, people believe that eating them will keep their ears from getting cold in winter. In addition, dumplings homonym "Jiaozi", meaning the start of winter is the intersection of autumn and winter seasons.

Brewed rice wine

It is a traditional custom of Shaoxing to brew rice wine on the Start of winter. In winter, the water is cold and the temperature is low, which can effectively inhibit the breeding of miscellaneous bacteria and make the wine form a good flavor in the process of long time fermentation at low temperature. It is the most suitable season for wine fermentation. Therefore, Shaoxing people call the most suitable time to make rice wine from the start of Winter to the beginning of spring the "winter wine", praying for well-being.

Traditional Chinese medicine theory emphasizes that "Yang in spring and summer, Yin in autumn and winter". Autumn and winter are the most comfortable time for human body and the best digestion and absorption function. According to the corresponding principles of traditional Chinese medicine health, autumn and winter season is the best season to timely supplement, absorb nutrients and supplement body consumption.

Diet, should pay attention to eat less cold, eat more warm and heavy food. In addition, winter should drink warm water, nourishing Yin at the same time can also moisten dry. In winter, traditional Chinese medicine believes that salty food should be eaten less and bitter food should be eaten more. As the "four hours of adjustment" said: "Winter moon kidney water taste salty, fear water grams fire, so it is appropriate to cultivate the heart.

In terms of exercise, static exercise should be the main exercise, you can exercise in the sunny place, under the morning light, to feel comfortable and pleasant. Because of the decline of human immunity in winter, excessive exercise can not only increase resistance, but also easily increase the risk of colds.

Video production: Wang Minghui

Photo: Lobo Gallery

Editor, poster production: Xin Jiaying

Final Adjudication: Li Shiqing, Sun Li

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