Xiao Han is the twenty-third festival of the year, between January 5-7 of the Gregorian calendar, the sun is located in the yellow longitude 285 °. The moon order seventy-two wait for the collection of explanation: “December festival, the beginning of the cold is still small, so the cloud. Half of the month is big carry on.” The folk have a proverb: small cold big cold, cold into the ice mass. Literally understand, cold cold than small cold, but in the meteorological records, small cold than cold, is the coldest of the 24 festivals of the year. People after the consumption of spring, summer and autumn, the internal organs of the yin and yang qi and blood have been weakened, a reasonable supplement can be timely replenishment of qi and blood fluids, to resist the cold attack, but also to make the next year less disease, so as to achieve the purpose of health care with half the effort. The “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine – Suwen – The Four Seasons of the Great Treatise on the Adjustment of the Gods” incisively and clearly points out that winter health should follow the law of nature’s closed storage, to converge Yin and protect Yang as the fundamental. People should be in the same state as stinging insects, keeping their bodies and minds calm, reducing their flare-ups, and nourishing their essence to wait for the right climate in spring to break out of the cocoon. If you let out your Yang energy in winter, you will be prone to warm diseases in spring. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine emphasizes the importance of “not disturbing the Yang, lying down early and getting up late, and waiting for daylight”. That is to say, in the cold winter, do not disturb the yang energy and destroy the physiological function of the body’s yin and yang transformation. Adequate sleep is conducive to the latent storage of yang energy and the accumulation of yin essence. The clothing is too little and too thin, the room temperature is too low that is easy to catch a cold and consume Yang Qi. On the contrary, too much clothing is too thick, the room temperature is too high, the coup is open, Yang is not hidden, the cold is easy to invade. Dressing to talk about “clothes climate”, refers to the temperature between the inner layer of clothes and skin should always be maintained at 32 ℃ ~ 33 ℃, this ideal “clothes climate”, can buffer the cold climate of the outside world on the human body invasion. Second, pay attention to the feet to keep warm. Chinese medicine believes that the feet are cold, is bound to affect the internal organs, can lead to diarrhea, menstrual disorders, impotence, lumbar pain and other diseases, feet to keep warm, before going to bed to wash feet with warm water, and rub the feet 100-200 times, in order to nourish the kidneys and brain. “Cold is Yin, often hurt Yang” human Yang is like the sun in the sky, giving nature light and warmth, the loss of his everything can not survive. Similarly, the human body without Yang Qi, will lose the vitality of metabolism, modern medicine also believes that people suffering from cardiovascular disease, should pay attention to the cold, such as coronary heart disease because of cold easily induced angina and myocardial infarction; at the same time should abstain from sexual intercourse, “Shou Shi Bao Yuan” pointed out: “essence is the main kidney, winter health should abstain from sexual intercourse, can not wanton its lust, hurt its kidney essence. ” Spiritual recuperation Therefore, you should temper your appetite, stop the sound and color, and regulate the spirit, so that the harmony of yin and yang, qi and blood rushing and, therefore, after the beginning of winter, the living and recuperation remember to “nourish and hide”. In the spiritual regimen to do “so that the will if the ambush if hidden, if there is a private intention, if to have got” to strive for its quiet, control the emotions and activities, keep the mental and emotional tranquility, containing but not revealing, to avoid annoyance, so that the body Yang Qi can be hidden. Winter is affected by the use of fireplaces, heating, dry climate and other aspects, people are prone to “fire”, emotional changes. Chinese medicine believes that anger will be on the gas, disturbing Yang Qi, therefore, winter should pay particular attention to emotional regulation. In the winter also to prevent the occurrence of seasonal affective disorder, the so-called seasonal affective disorder, refers to some people in the winter is prone to depression, laziness and sleepiness, drowsiness and other phenomena, and year after year, this phenomenon is mostly seen in young people, especially women. The way to prevent it is to get more sunlight to extend the light hours, which is a natural remedy to regulate the mood. The diet is based on the principle of “autumn and winter nourish Yin”, “no disturbance to Yang”, “deficiency is tonic, the cold is warm”, in the winter dietary principles should eat more warm food for conditioning, in order to To improve the body’s ability to withstand cold. The kidney is the master of salty taste, the heart is the master of bitter taste, salty can win the bitter, so the winter diet should be less salty and more bitter, following the principle of “less salty, more bitter”, in order to replenish the heart qi, solid kidney qi. Yuan dynasty Khu Si Hui by the “diet is about to” said: “…… winter gas cold, it is appropriate to eat millet to heat to cure its cold.” In other words, eat less cold, but also should not be manic heat, targeted consumption of some nourishing Yin submerged Yang, higher calorie meals is appropriate. You can choose to eat: brown rice, corn, wheat, black beans, peas and other grain beans; green vegetables, tofu, fungus, walnuts, dates, chestnuts, pears, apples, oranges, bananas, hawthorn, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, ginger, leeks, garlic, cauliflower and other fruits and vegetables; beef and mutton, venison, hoof meat, pigeon, quail, chicken, goose, duck, pork loin and sea cucumber, eel, carp, crucian carp, silver carp, scallops, shrimp and other meat, drink more Soybean milk. Folk proverb: winter morning do not empty heart, summer night do not eat. Therefore, you can simmer a little ginger in the morning to drive away the wind and protect the cold. For the weak, chronic disease patients, winter is also a good time to use traditional Chinese medicine or cream conditioning, as the saying goes, “winter tonic, spring to fight the tiger. In the winter, the earth energy is strong and the kidney energy is weak. Therefore, it is advisable to reduce the sweetness and increase the bitterness in the diet, to supplement the heart and help the lungs, and to regulate the kidneys. The so-called “three nine tonic a winter”, but the small cold remember not to make a big tonic. In the diet can eat more mutton, beef, sesame, walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, rods, pine nuts, raisins, etc., can also be combined with medicinal meals for tonic. Dietary recommendations 1, the blood and qi porridge small cold diet is the biggest feature of the porridge. The “Yanjing years and times record” in the “porridge, with yellow rice, white rice, rice, millet, rice, chestnuts, red cowpeas, peeled dates, etc., cooked with water, outside with dyed red peach nuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts and white sugar, brown sugar, Ziao Ziao grapes, for the point of color.” The details of the congee: raw materials: 50 grams of rice, 50 grams of yellow millet, 50 grams of sticky yellow rice, 50 grams of glutinous rice, Panicum (sticky sorghum rice) 50 grams, 100 grams of red beans, 100 grams of lotus seeds, 100 grams of cinnamon, 100 grams of peanut rice, 100 grams of chestnuts, 100 grams of small red dates, sugar, the amount of simmering porridge is ready. Qing “congee recipe” that the congee is “food therapy” good, and stomach, spleen, nourish the heart, lung, kidney, liver, thirst, eyes, laxative, calm the mind, prevent constipation, beauty. 2, Guangdong glutinous rice Guangzhou tradition, small cold morning eat glutinous rice, in order to avoid too glutinous, generally 60% glutinous rice 40% fragrant rice, chopped bacon and sausage, fried, fried peanut rice, add some chopped white onion, mixed in the rice.