Since ancient times, people have wished for good health and longevity. With the continuous improvement of people’s material living standard and the increasing richness of spiritual civilization, health and longevity have become an important issue of world attention. But how to be healthy? And how to live a long life? People have made various attempts to find the elixir, and even adopted mysterious spells, but the results are futile. Although there are no elixirs and no mysterious spells, the life expectancy of the whole human race is increasing. It is reported that the average life expectancy of human beings was only 20 years in the 17th century, 30 years in the 18th century, 40 years before the 19th century, 55 years in 1920, 60 years in 1935, 68 years in 1952, and has now reached about 70 years. And there are many developed countries have entered the “aging society”. It can be expected that by the year 2000, there will be some countries and regions where the average life expectancy will be close to or reach about 80 years. The earliest surviving medical classic “Huangdi Neijing”, which says that people should live to the end of their natural life and be 100 years old, will no longer be a human dream in the near future, but a living fact. Although there are many factors that affect health and longevity, such as congenital genetics, natural environment, socio-economic, scientific and technological development, medical level, nutritional status, personal occupation, etc., the ability to pay attention to the way of health is a very important factor. About the relationship between the way of health and longevity, the “Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine” pointed out very clearly: I heard that the ancient people, spring and autumn are a hundred years old, and the movement does not decline; nowadays, the people, half a hundred years old and the movement are declining, the time and the world is different? Will people lose it? This points out that the key to good health and longevity lies in whether people know how to maintain their health. In ancient times, the sages lived to be more than 100 years old because they mastered the way of health care, and their bodies and movements did not look old. People can’t die, but they can gradually enhance their physical fitness, improve their recovery and anti-aging power through post-natal care, so as to prolong their lives. Chinese medicine is extremely rich in theories and methods of health maintenance, but the important thing is – to maintain health in accordance with the time. As stated in “The Spiritual Pivot of the Inner Classic. In the book “The Book of the Gods”, it is said: Therefore, the wise man’s health must be adapted to the four seasons and the cold and summer ……. If so, the evil will not come and the long life will be long. The word “longevity” means “longevity” means “prolonged life” and “longevity” means “not easy to age”. Why is it possible to prolong life? It’s because the secluded evil does not arrive, the secluded evil, refers to the wrong qi, the secluded evil does not arrive, means the disease evil can not invade. The key to not being attacked by disease and evil is to follow the four seasons and adapt to the cold and heat, which is an extremely important principle in Chinese medicine and can be said to be the magic weapon of longevity. Why do you say so? In the Nei Jing Su Wen. It is said in the “Treatise on the Whole Form of Life” that people are born with the qi of heaven and earth, and the law of the four seasons. In the book “Nei Jing Su Wen. The Six Sections of the Organism” says: “Heaven eats man with the five qi, and earth eats man with the five tastes. All these show that the human body depends on the material conditions provided by the qi of heaven and earth to survive, and at the same time, it has to adapt to the changing laws of yin and yang of the four seasons in order to develop and grow. As the famous Ming dynasty medical scholar Zhang Jinyue said; spring should be liver and nourish life, summer should be heart and nourish long, long summer should be spleen and change, autumn should be lung and nourish harvest, winter should be kidney and nourish hide. This means that the physiological activities of the five organs of the human body must adapt to the changes of yin and yang in the four seasons in order to maintain a harmonious balance with the external environment. This is basically consistent with the modern view that the conditions for life are the result of the interaction of matter and energy between heaven and earth. Humans need to take in food and drink, breathe air and exchange substances with nature in order to maintain normal metabolic activities. According to the theory of ancestral medicine, the sky has three yin, three yang, six qi and five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and the human body also has three yin, three yang, six qi and five elements of movement, while the changes of natural climate are related to the movement of yin, yang, six qi and five elements, and the physiological activities and pathological changes of the human body depend on the coordination of the six meridians and the qi of the five organs. Therefore, it is believed that the vital activities of the human body and the natural changes are the same. At the same time, it is believed that the movement of the yin and yang elements in nature and the movement of the qi of the five organs and six meridians in the human body are mutually receptive to each other, and this is the concept of the unity of heaven and man, and the smallness of heaven and earth in the human body, as well as the concept of the unity of heaven and man that corresponds to heaven and man and heaven and earth. As the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says, “Man and heaven and earth are in harmony, and the sun and the moon are in harmony. The sun and the moon here refer to the movement of the sun and the moon, that is, the movement of the heavenly bodies and the change of climate. Heaven and earth, the ancients refer to the entire natural world, and the unity of heaven and earth means that nature is a unified whole. This was clearly understood in the Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine as early as in the Neijing Suwen. In the “Yin and Yang should be like the great theory”, it is pointed out that: heaven and earth, all things above and below also, the sky has four seasons and five elements, to grow and collect, to produce cold, summer, dry, wet and wind. This means that everything in heaven and earth does not exist independently, but they all affect each other, interact with each other, are interconnected and interdependent. There are changes in the four seasons and five elements between heaven and earth, producing different climates, and under different climates, all living things have the process of birth, development and death, and the five organs of the human body also have different changes, producing the five wills of happiness, anger, sadness and fear. The four seasons are the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter each year, and its formation has to start from the place where we live – the earth. The earth revolves around the sun every 365 days at 5:48 minutes and 46 (or 45) seconds, which is usually called a year; at the same time, the earth itself is also rotating, turning once every 24 hours, which is a day. Its axis of rotation and the Earth’s orbital plane around the Sun has an intersection angle of 66.5°, so in the process of rotation, half of the year is closer to the Sun in the northern hemisphere, and half of the year is closer to the Sun in the southern hemisphere. At the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines directly on the latitude circle of 23.5°N, and at the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines directly on the latitude circle of 23.5°S. At other times, the sun shines directly between these two latitude belts, and at the vernal and autumn equinoxes, the sun passes the equatorial zenith twice and shines directly on the equator, so the earth rotates for one week, and the position of the sun shines directly between the southern and northern return lines. The sun’s position in the world changes regularly, and this results in a regular alternation of seasons. The climate in each of the four seasons is characterized by a warm spring, a hot summer, a long summer, a cool autumn and a cold winter. But they are an inseparable whole, a continuous process of change. Without growth, there is no such thing as collection, and there will be no second year of regrowth. It is because of the cold, hot, warm and cool, the growth and collection of the changes, there is the normal development and growth of life. This is explained in Chinese medicine, for example, in Suwen of the Inner Classic. In the Four Qi Regulating the Gods, it is said that the four seasons of yin and yang are the root of all things. For example, the winter solstice is the birth of a yang, from spring to summer is the process of yang growing and yin disappearing, so there is the warmth of spring and the heat of summer; the summer solstice is the birth of a yin, from autumn to winter is the process of yin growing and yang disappearing, so there is the coolness of autumn and the coldness of winter. Due to the change of yin and yang in the four seasons, there is the law of biological development and growth of spring, summer growth, autumn harvest and winter storage, thus the four seasons of yin and yang is the root of everything. The root, that is, refers to the origin of the birth and death of all things. These six kinds of climate are produced by the change of climate in the four seasons of the year, and although they have their own characteristics, they are mutually adjustable, because with these six normal climate change, there is a year of temperature, heat, cool, cold and growth collection of yin and yang changes, so the climate of nature can be adjusted to each other, in order to facilitate the growth and development of all things, and make the whole of nature’s climate to form a whole. Therefore, the natural climate can regulate each other to facilitate the growth and development of everything, and make the whole natural climate form an organic whole. This whole is in constant movement and change, there is a law. Follow and use this law to maintain the dynamic balance of yin and yang, for the benefit of mankind, and destroy this balance, it will be disaster. Man is born with the qi of heaven and earth, which also means that the origin of human life originates from heaven, earth, sun and moon, among which the main origin is the sun and earth, especially the fire of the sun and the water of the earth. Everything grows by the sun, all living things, in the final analysis, rely on the sun’s light and heat. Light and heat are the energy sources of life on earth, and if there is a lack of sufficient light and heat, life cannot occur and exist. Engels said: Our earth itself survives only because of solar heat …… Without the repulsive motion radiated to us by the sun, all motion on earth would surely cease (Dialectics of Nature). The food we eat every day comes directly or indirectly from plants, and the fuel we use comes from plants. Derived from their photosynthesis, their energy comes from the sun, so without the sun, there would be no life on earth. Most people know that it is common knowledge to take poultices in winter and apply them in summer, and this is the reason for the so-called “treatment of winter diseases in summer” and “treatment of summer diseases in winter”. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine, on the other hand, has a unique and detailed description of health maintenance. Here is an excerpt from Suwen? The Four Temperaments of the Four Spiritual Discourses” to talk about the four seasons of health. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says: “In March of spring, this is called the month of Fa Chen. Heaven and earth are born, all things to glory, night sleep and get up early wide walk in the court, was (phi) hair slow shape, in order to make Zhi Sheng, born but do not kill, give but do not take away, reward but do not punish, this is the spring gas should be, the way to maintain health. Against it will hurt the liver, summer for the cold change, to serve the long less.” Spring and March refers to the period from the beginning of spring to the day before the beginning of summer. In these three months, heaven and earth are awakened, everything begins to grow and prosper. The so-called “Fa Chen” refers to the natural scene of spring when Yang Qi is born, everything revives and plants sprout. People should wake up early, take a walk in the garden square, let their hair fall out naturally, and loosen their clothes, so that they can stretch their emotions and make their bodies active. In this season when everything is growing, one must protect the living creatures and not induce killing. Don’t hurt the plants sprouting, forbid cutting down trees, burning mountains and forests; don’t destroy the nests of birds, can’t hurt eggs, eggs, larvae, young birds, young animals and pregnant female animals, etc.; don’t exhaust the river and water, can’t let the reservoir dry up. DD Chinese ancient people have long been conscious of protecting the ecological environment. In spring, it is appropriate to wear cyan clothes and bring cyan accessories. The main food is made of wheat, thus regulating the spring temperature with cool air. In this spring of sowing and cultivating, we should give more and give more, take less, and help those in need; in this season of rising Yang energy, we should reward more and punish less. This is the way to maintain health in spring. Chinese medicine believes that the liver collects blood, in addition to the regulation of emotions, in terms of diet, pay attention to the spring can not eat animal liver, this season is the liver is a time of prosperity, dead gas into the liver, hurt the soul of the eater. In terms of sexual intercourse, abstain from sexual intercourse three days before the vernal equinox to avoid giving birth to children with physical defects. Spring food is appropriate to choose the general tonic food, such as chicken, eggs, lean pork, red dates, etc.. Not only can you improve your lethargic body, but you can also enrich your strength. However, for people who are obviously weak, they need to choose appropriate tonic herbs to nourish themselves, such as American ginseng, longan meat, party ginseng, astragalus, etc. Spring is a good season for allergic diseases because of the large amount of pollen in the air when flowers are blooming. If you have chronic diseases or allergies, you must avoid taking “hairy things” in spring, such as shrimp, crab, pickles and other foods, otherwise old diseases are very likely to recur. In general, the spring tonic diet, to the principle of flat tonic, not just use warm tonic, so as not to spring temperature rise, aggravate the body’s internal heat, damage to the body’s vitality. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine said: “summer in March, this is the show, the sky and earth, everything flashy, sleep at night and get up early, not tired of the day, so that the will is not angry, so that the Huaying into the show, so that the gas to drain, if the love outside, this summer gas should be, the way to raise long. Against it will be sad, autumn for ^ malaria, bong harvest less, the winter solstice heavy illness.” The idea of nourishing health in the Neijing focuses on spiritual regimen, which can be clearly reflected in this passage. In this passage, except for the phrase “sleep at night and get up early”, the rest of the text is devoted to the regulation of mental and emotional well-being. The so-called “no boredom in the day” means that the long day and the hot summer heat hurt the body and deplete the qi, making people easily tired and tired. The people who take care of their health should really comply with the characteristics of the exuberant Yang energy in summer, to invigorate the spirit, do not have a bored mind, so that the gas is released, so as to avoid depression. The so-called “so that the will is not angry, so that the Huaying into the show”, is to pay attention to adjust the mood, not because of things and haste, irritable feelings, so as not to help Yang up the storm and hurt the right qi. The so-called “let the qi escape, if what you love is outside” is a footnote to the first two sentences: if you are not bored, there will be no internal depression and the qi will be released; and if you do not have the will to get angry, the qi will be released in a peaceful and pleasant way, as if what you love is outside. If you can adjust yourself to such a state of mind in the summer season, you can naturally be cool from the heart and live a long and healthy life. The diet and living in summer is more important than other seasons. Because of the summer Yang Sheng outside, and Yang pole Yin, Yin resides inside, plus the summer food easy ***, a little carelessness, can cause abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea. Therefore, in summer, you should use light food and drugs that have the ability to clear the heart and relieve summer heat. In summer, people’s yang energy is strong, the skin is open, blood vessels are full. Sweating increases, and it is easy to show the physiological changes of “summer qi through the heart”; summer dampness is heavy. It is easy to trap the spleen, so in addition to the use of cool food in summer, but also pay attention to the transformation of dampness to strengthen the spleen. The foods and medicines used not only have the effect of relieving summer heat, but also have the effect of appetizing and increasing food, strengthening the spleen and helping to transport. These foods include corn, barley seeds, mung beans, watermelon, cucumber, loofah, winter melon, eggplant and so on. Medicines include American ginseng, lotus seeds, ground bones, honeysuckle, poria, etc. Chinese herbal medicines for supplementation can be taken such as Ginseng and Atractylodes, Jin Yin Hua Dew and Dioscorea Pills. On the other hand, in summer, young and strong people eat a lot of cold, ice and snow, the elderly should not follow suit, do not indulge in the desire of the mouth and stomach to cause injury to the spleen and stomach. In terms of living, even though it is hot and stifling to sleep, you should avoid sleeping on a fan as a window, or sleeping on a mat or a cool bed, or having a low air conditioning temperature, or having bare shoulders without a cover. All these are not appropriate for the elderly, and if they commit them, it is difficult to prohibit the disease. Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in China, said: “Water does not rot, the household pivot is not worm-eaten”; Bacon of England said: “Life is movement”. Life and movement are closely related, movement is the characteristics of life, life is the expression of movement, scientific and reasonable movement can strengthen the body, prolong life. If the movement stops, then the in and out stops, the gods and the machine perish, and life dies. Summer exercise health care should be to calm the mind and spirit, to protect the essence of the main benefit. Because of the summer heat, the human body is hot and dry, distracted, difficult to calm; summer heat forcing the fluid out of the drain, sweating profusely, less fluid deficit. “The essence is hidden, manic is extinct”, “spring and summer nourish Yang, protect the essence and benefit qi” is said to be the truth. Summer exercise health care should be mainly static work, supplemented by dynamic work, the combination of static and dynamic, to adapt to the seasonal climate change, enhance physical fitness, improve the ability to resist disease, Taijiquan, the eight duanjin, five birds play as the first choice. Summer sports health care should not be overworked. Labor, labor, room labor can make the sweat out, the Jin big leak, the essence of the death. The lighter the resistance to summer, heatstroke, depression; the heavier the “summer injury in the summer, autumn will be sick malaria”. Summer is coming, summer vacation is coming, “follow the four seasons, suitable for cold and summer” leisure time is coming. Summer leisure health care to adapt to the seasonal climate characteristics, according to their own physical condition, to develop a suitable for the cultivation of sentiment, conducive to physical and mental health leisure health care methods. With family and friends or “sentiment between the landscape”, or “outside the wanderings”, “couple of fish and shrimp and friends elk”, look at the flowers and drink wine, express their feelings to the moon, talk about poetry, satire of the past and the present The summer leisure health care, such as elegant, positive, to eliminate the heat fatigue, adjust the mental state, for the future full of energy, energetic study work has important significance. Summer leisure health care should not be excessive comfort, daily black and white upside down, sleep all night, daytime sleep to the sun; or excessive night life, playing mahjong, dancing, indulge in entertainment, so that not only can not achieve the purpose of leisure, but will lead to disease. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says: “Autumn March, this is the Yung Ping, the weather to the urgent, the earth’s air to the bright, early to sleep and get up early, with the chicken, so that the will is peaceful, in order to slow the autumn punishment, convergence of the spirit, so that the autumn gas flat, no outside its will, so that the lung gas clear, nourishing the collection of the road also, the reverse is hurt the lungs, winter for food diarrhea, the less of those who serve to hide.” From the day of autumn to the beginning of winter, is the season when everything is full of fruit and already ripe. In this season, the weather is clear, the wind is strong and sharp, everything is depressed, the mountains and rivers are clear and clean. People should go to bed early and get up early to rest at the same time as the chickens. Make your mind peaceful and calm, so as to cushion the impact of the sanguine qi of late autumn on you; collect the qi that was previously dispersed to the outside, so that your body can adapt to the autumn qi and achieve mutual balance; do not let your emotions leak outward, so as to keep the lung qi clear and sober. This is the rule to follow the autumn qi and maintain the body’s astringent function. Against this rule, it will hurt the lung qi, and in the winter will be by the end of the food leaks. The reason for this is because the body’s astringent function in the fall did not get due care, so that the supply of winter closed force less and less. Autumn diet should reduce the pungent taste and increase the sour taste, so as to avoid too much lung qi and liver qi too suppressed. In addition, because of the dryness of autumn, people should eat more food such as sesame to moisten and nourish the lungs, and eat less cold food and more warm food. In terms of living, you should go to bed early and get up early, and take advantage of the high weather in autumn, when the scenery of mountains and rivers is clear and clear, to climb up high and see far, in order to Shu lung qi. To nourish the lungs in autumn, you can use foods and medicines that nourish Yin and moisten dryness and nourish lung energy. The temperature in autumn is getting cooler and the climate is dry. Autumn dryness is easy to hurt people’s lungs, depleting people’s lung yin, so that people appear dry mouth and throat, cough less phlegm, constipation and other symptoms, so according to the dry moisten the, nourishing the principle of nourishing the lungs, the use of food and medicine with sweet moistening effect for tonic. The food and medicine used include pear, sugar cane, fungus, banana, honey, lily of the valley, asparagus, maitake, sage, and silver fungus. Chinese medicine can be used to supplement the Yin pill, Liu Wei Di Huang Wan, Mai Wei Di Huang Long, etc. The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine says: “In the month of March, this is called the month of closure. The water is cold and chap, without disturbing the Yang, sleep early and get up late, must wait for the daylight, so that the will if the ambush if hidden, if there is a private intention, if there is already available, to cold on the warmth, no drainage of the skin, so that the gas is taken away, this winter gas should be, the way to nourish the Tibetan. Against it will hurt the kidneys, spring for impotence and convulsions, the less the bong Sang.” The three months of winter is the season when everything is closed and hidden. In this season, the water freezes and the earth freezes, so people should not disturb the yang energy, go to bed early and get up late, and wait until daylight appears before getting up; make the emotions like an army in ambush, like fish and birds in deep hiding, like a person with privacy, like a heart with something to gain, etc.; also stay away from the cold places and stay close to the warm places, and do not let the skin and couples open to sweat and make the yang energy lose a lot. This is the law of conforming to the winter energy and maintaining the body’s closed function. If you go against this rule, you will hurt the kidney energy, and in the spring it will lead to impotence and coldness of the limbs. The reason for this is that the body’s closed function is not properly maintained in the winter, so that the energy for springtime vitality is scarce and insufficient. In the winter, the cold is overwhelming, everything is closed, Yang is hidden, Yin is in full bloom, the earth is frozen for thousands of miles, and it is a scene of yin and cold. At this time, the yang energy of the human body is also hidden inside, so at this time, the adjustment of the mind should be taxing, so that the mood is in a state of satisfaction, in order to ensure that the yang energy in the body is closed, and that the gods are not disturbed. The will is hidden inside and not exposed outside, if there is privacy. At the same time, pay attention to the early sleep and late rise, so as not to make the skin open and sweat out and hurt Yang. In winter, we should adjust our mind in accordance with the climate change of yin and yang, in line with the law of winter. Under the warm sunlight. Indulge in nature’s gifts. Enjoy the pleasure of back exposure. Avoid too much night life at night. Rest as early as possible, so as to collect seeds, nourish the gods and hide the gods. In winter, it is advisable to use foods and medicines that have the effect of warming the Yang and nourishing the kidneys. Winter is the season of collection, at the same time, the winter temperature is lower, the skin and blood vessels tighten, prone to the situation of yin and cold, Yang Qi decay, so we should follow the principle of warming Yang to nourish the kidneys, warm but not loose for tonic. Winter tonic can use glutinous rice, walnuts, dog meat, cinnamon, shrimp, black beans, ginseng, deer antler, etc. for tonic. At the same time, you can use Jin Plaque Kidney Pill and Ginseng and Deer Antler Pill, etc. In short, the four seasons of health, regardless of spirit, mood, diet, living, exercise, leisure, must grasp the basic principles of health care, that is: “follow the four seasons, appropriate summer and cold, and happiness and anger, living in peace, not delusion do labor”, to ensure that “the form and God with”, in this way In this way, we can live to be 100 years old.