In a flash, this year’s winter solstice (Dec. 22) will be upon us. Literally, many people think that the winter solstice is the beginning of winter, but it is not. The “to” in winter solstice is not interpreted as “to”, and the winter solstice should not be interpreted as “winter has arrived”. Here the “to” should be interpreted as “pole, pole”. According to the ancient view of the transformation of yin and yang in China, the yin energy rises to the pole on the winter solstice, and then the yin energy starts to fall and the yang energy starts to rise until the yang energy reaches the pole on the summer solstice, and then a new round of transformation of yin and yang begins. In the State Language, “The yang reaches the yin, and the yin reaches the yang.” Influenced by the doctrine of “yin and yang”, the ancients divided everything in the world into two attributes: yin and yang, and so did numbers. The ancients regarded the odd number (odd) as the yang number, even number (even) as the yin number. And since the winter solstice, the day gradually lengthened, indicating that the Yang gradually flourished. So to the Song Dynasty, people will be the largest Yang number “nine”, the so-called “number of extreme Yang” and “Yang Qi to” the winter solstice together, from the winter solstice day onwards “The nine days are counted. The nine days are arranged in a cycle until the ninth nine days, a total of 81 days. When the “nine days” are over, it is the time for spring flowers to bloom. “Nine is the end of the peach blossom”, “Ninety-eight is the end of the cold”. Therefore, the cultural custom of “counting the nine days” reflects people’s psychology of responding to nature and hoping that the earth will warm up and everything will recover as soon as possible. The winter solstice is one of the most important festivals in health science, mainly because “the winter solstice is the first sunrise”. According to the eight trigrams, at this time for the mines to repeat the trigram. The hexagram above the five yin lines, below a yang lines, symbolizing the first birth of Yang. In ancient times, China had the winter solstice as the son month, that is, the beginning of the year. In the twelve hours of the day, the son is also the time of the first birth of the body a yang. In ancient times, the practice of health care attached great importance to this period of the first birth of Yang energy. It is believed that when Yang Qi is first born, it should be carefully protected and carefully nurtured, just like a farmer who raises seedlings or a woman who is pregnant, so that it can gradually grow. Only when the yang energy in the body is sufficient can we achieve the goal of eliminating diseases and prolonging life. This is why the zi zhi and zi moi have an important place in health science. In this festival of the sprouting of Yang energy, the food customs in the north and south are even more colorful, there are those who eat wontons, dumplings, pills, dog meat, and there are also those who eat glutinous rice with adzuki beans in Jiangnan ……. In my opinion, since nature has given us a long winter night, why don’t we get a good night’s sleep, sleep peacefully Yin convergence, Yin convergence Yang can be attached, that is to say, in line with the natural sleep can provide the incubation of the newborn “Yang” hotbed. Of course, after a good sleep, you should also eat well, to introduce you to the meat that is very suitable for this season — lamb. Mutton is sweet, warm and non-toxic; it enters the spleen and kidney; it is mainly used for treating kidney deficiency and lumbar pain, impotence and seminal failure, thinness and fear of cold, deficiency and cold after illness, maternal postpartum deficiency or abdominal pain, postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum absence of breast milk or belt and other diseases. There are many ways to eat lamb, I recommend the practice and efficacy of lamb soup with angelica and ginger in the Chinese medical text “Jin Gui Yao”: 250g of lamb, cut into pieces, 30g of angelica and 15g of ginger, add water and fry until the lamb is cooked, remove the dregs and take the juice to serve. This formula takes mutton to warm the middle and nourish the deficiency, angelica to nourish the blood, slow down the pain, and ginger to warm the middle and strengthen the stomach. It is used for deficiency cold in spleen and stomach, acute abdominal pain, hypochondriac pain, or deficiency of qi and blood, and inability to invigorate the middle yang. In the recipe of the same name in the “Standard Rules for the Treatment of Evidence”, astragalus is added to make the tonic power especially strong. The congee of mutton is a good meal to strengthen the stomach and spleen: 250g of mutton, cut into small grains; 180g of rice (or corn); add water and cook into porridge. Add salt, ginger and pepper to taste. Can be divided into 2-3 times to eat. Mutton is warm in nature, fever patients should be careful to eat it; edema, yin deficiency, malaria, external sensation, toothache and all febrile diseases are prohibited.