After the winter solstice, the climate all over China has entered a coldest stage. Experts remind: from the health science, the winter solstice is a good time for health, people should learn to “winter hide”, nourish the essence of the body and mind. The winter solstice is one of the earliest of the twenty-four solar terms. From this day onwards, the northern hemisphere daylight hours increase day by day, which is the folk proverb: “eat the winter solstice noodles, a day long a line.” However, the temperature does not start to “warm up” until more than a month later. Therefore, at this time of year, special attention should be paid to avoid the cold and keep warm. According to Dr. Wang Shijie, director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Second People’s Hospital of Shaanxi Province, “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” says: “In March, this is called closed storage”, “sleep early and get up late, must wait for daylight”, “to cold on the warmth, no drainage of the skin. If you go against it, it hurts the kidneys. This winter health text mainly tells us to pay attention to “avoid cold” and “prevent cold”. Cold is the direct cause of many diseases. Cold stagnation will make the meridians and blood stagnant, not pass is pain; cold collection will make the meridians constricted convulsions, joints flexion and extension unfavorable. Especially the old and weak, encounter cold invasion, some respiratory diseases, such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, etc. are easy to occur, so the cold weather, it is best to wear a warm hat, mask, to avoid the invasion of cold. In addition, Chinese medicine believes that the blood in the human body, warm is easy to flow, cold is easy to stagnate. The cold weather will make the blood in the body’s blood vessels flow poorly, and even cause blockage of blood, thus increasing the chance of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease attacks. Therefore, experts remind, for hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease and other diseases patients, after the winter solstice to pay more attention to the cold to keep warm, timely add clothes. The clothing and pants should have good warmth and be soft and loose to facilitate the flow of blood. Diet should be the right way Every year, the winter solstice day, dumplings are essential “seasonal rice”. Proverb: “winter solstice to, every family eat dumplings”. Experts recommend that the preparation of dumplings need to follow several principles in order to make dumplings both nutritious and delicious. First, less fatty meat should be put more vegetables. Meat can be used lamb, fish, etc., it is best to match a meat with three unextruded vegetable ingredients, and the meat used in the filling is nine points lean meat, do not add animal oil and vegetable oil. Only improve the amount of vegetables to achieve a true nutritional balance. Secondly, when choosing vegetables, it is best to choose mushrooms and algae. Such as shiitake mushrooms, fungus, silver fungus and various mushrooms, seaweed, etc.. They can improve the taste, but also help to reduce the absorption of cholesterol and fat, and control the rise of blood lipids after eating meat filling. Also, dumplings can be eaten with a variety of refreshing cold vegetables. Vegetarian dumplings with eggs and vegetables as the main ingredients are also a good choice. In addition to the diet on the day of the winter solstice, folk proverbs have been “three nine to make up a winter, the next year no disease; this year’s winter tonic, next year can fight the tiger” said. In this regard, Director Wang said that the winter solstice is a good time to maintain health, mainly because “the gas begins at the winter solstice”, after the winter solstice “yin pole Yang Sheng”, the yang energy in the human body flourishing, the easiest way to absorb external nutrition and play tonic effect. If you can scientifically use the way of health care at this time, properly adjusted, will help to ensure a strong energy and prevent premature aging, to achieve the purpose of prolonging life. But experts also reminded that the human body has a yin and yang hot and cold, the internal organs of the vital energy and blood are very different, the past history of disease is also complex, so the tonic program needs to be appropriate for the body, depending on the disease, before taking the tonic to regulate the spleen and stomach, or first eat some “open road formula”, in order to make up for it. Especially for the elderly, they are often a combination of a variety of diseases, in taking the tonic cream, should be the performance of the cream ingredients, dietary contraindications, etc., to prevent adverse reactions. In addition, the winter solstice diet should also do “three more three less”, that is, more protein, vitamins, fiber; sugar, fat, salt less. Diet should be diverse, grain, fruit, meat, vegetables with a reasonable mix, the appropriate choice of high calcium food. The food should be light, should not eat thick, fatty and too salty food. Emotional health to prevent depression in winter people follow nature, less activity, coupled with the end of the year is approaching, work pressure increased, at this time, depression and anxiety is easy to produce. Then, the emotional health is particularly important. Winter solstice health should focus on “nourishing the heart”, keep the spirit of optimism, avoid long-term “overload”, to prevent overwork, strain into disease. In life, you can consciously sunbathe more, especially the back of the sun, so that the body’s Yang Qi is sufficient, the meridians smooth. Women can also make tea with roses, thick flowers, wolfberries to adjust the qi. Experts remind: from the winter solstice, nature’s yang energy begins to rise, “movement is the birth of yang, static is the birth of yin”. Through reasonable exercise can help us to promote the body’s Yang Qi, but excessive promotion of Yang Qi will dissipate the true essence rather than in line with the winter hibernation of health. Winter exercise, first of all, to avoid the invasion of cold, followed by the amount of exercise should not be too much, to move in the quiet, in order to achieve a quiet body, gas, calm and relaxed realm. The eight-danjin, taijiquan and other calm sports are good choices.