Xiaoxue, the twentieth of the twenty-four solar terms, is the second of the winter seasons. Every year on November 22 or 23 the sun reaches the yellow meridian 240, indicating the time and extent of the start of snowfall. At this time, the first snow will appear in the northern part of China, the arrival of the Little Snow Festival, the beginning of snow, although the amount of snow is limited, but still remind everyone to the season of cold and warm. In this season, we must learn how to take care of the body. The first thing you need to do is to go to bed early and get up late. After the snow, it is advisable to hide the Yang, hide the essence, nourish the essence and prepare for the coming spring’s vitality. The recent cold weather should not disturb the yang energy, to go to bed early and get up late, sunrise and work, to ensure sufficient sleep time, in order to facilitate the Yang energy hidden, Yin essence accumulation. As for the protection against cold and warmth, it must also be done appropriately. Dress too little and too thin, the room temperature is too low, it is not only the consumption of Yang Qi, but also easy to catch a cold. On the contrary, too much thick clothing, room temperature is too high, the coup draining, Yang Qi can not hide, cold evil is also easy to invade. In addition, at this time of year, you can also participate in more outdoor activities, more sunshine. When exercising, you can choose taijiquan, walking and other relatively gentle exercise, but pay attention to the exercise to a slight sweat is better. Emotional conditioning – to maintain optimism Little snow suggests the arrival of snowfall climate, so the weather before and after the festival foggy and cloudy. People’s emotions in this climate will become depressed, disappointed, sad, bitter. These adverse emotions accumulate in the heart can not be fully ventilated will be harmful to health, and even cause disease. Therefore, the snow festival to pay special attention to the regulation of emotions. To actively regulate their own state of mind, to maintain optimism, tempered with joy and anger, to maintain a relaxed mood, can be through cheerful music, let the beautiful melody for life to add fun, often enjoy comedy film and television works, listen to the funny comic, etc. to cultivate optimistic and happy mood, at the same time, more participation in recreational activities, to maintain a happy mood, to stimulate the enthusiasm for life and aspirations. For normal people, winter diet should follow the principle of “nourishing yin in autumn and winter” and “no disturbance to yang”, neither cold nor hot. It is most appropriate to eat meals that nourish Yin and Yang and have a high calorie content. It is recommended to eat more warm and tonic foods and kidney-friendly foods, such as warm and tonic foods such as mutton, beef, chicken, dog meat, etc.; kidney-friendly foods such as cashew nuts, yam, chestnut stew, bone soup, walnuts, etc. In addition, to eat more black food, such as black fungus, black sesame, black beans, etc., not only can nourish the kidney energy can also resist the cold, and can moisten the lungs and produce fluid, has a very good health function. However, this season, indoor heating, outside the cold, people dressed tightly, the body’s heat does not go out, it is easy to produce “internal fire”, which is often said to be on fire. Therefore, although the cold days, people are suitable to eat hot food, but too spicy food is best not to eat, which will more fuel the body’s “internal fire”. Sports conditioning – the combination of movement and stillness As the saying goes: “winter move a move, less a disease; winter lazy a lazy, more medicine a bowl”, the image illustrates the importance of winter exercise. Through physical exercise, you can increase the blood flow of the coronary arteries, thus ensuring the supply of blood and oxygen to the brain, heart and other important organs to avoid the occurrence of cardiovascular disease. In addition, exercise can also reduce tension, anxiety, depression and other states caused by dysfunction of the vegetative nerves. Therefore, the snow season, to properly increase their own exercise, but to avoid the wind, cold, snow, especially when the foggy weather exercise, while the main focus on mild aerobic exercise. In addition, Xiaoxue season, pay attention to the prevention of influenza and other respiratory infectious diseases, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal diseases and other diseases. 1, the prevention of colds “Snow” festival after the weather gradually become cold, this time also began to enter the high incidence of colds season. Prevention of colds should pay attention to the following points: (1) Drink more water: Drink more water to promote metabolism, not only to replenish the body’s water needs, but also to prevent the appearance of dry symptoms, the main thing is to prevent the production of internal heat. (2) adhere to exercise: “Snow” season temperature is not too low overall, so adhere to the cold exercise is very necessary, walking 5 ~ 10 km per day is a very good exercise method. (3) Reasonable diet: eating too much greasy food often produces internal heat, acne, irritability and constipation, which has the internal environment for influenza; and spicy food can aggravate internal heat, a little inattention to external wind and cold can suffer from influenza. So the diet should be reasonable, vegetables and fruits should be eaten more, such as cabbage, radish, bananas, pears and apples, etc. (4) mental relaxation, do not overwork: mental tension, overload can cause resistance to decline, while sufficient sleep, good mood can improve the body’s ability to resist disease. (5) massage to prevent disease: standing, sitting practice can be, the whole body relaxed, two palms rubbing each other to hot, first in the face massage 64 times, with fingers from the top of the head to the back of the head, side head to do combing action 64 times, so that the scalp heat, and then rub the palms of the two feet, each rubbing 64, and finally rub to the front chest, abdomen back, do dry bath, rub hot. 2, anti-cardiovascular disease early winter season, the high incidence of cardiovascular disease, winter temperatures gradually lower, the human metabolism is slow, the body of cardiovascular patients stimulated by cold air, sudden vasoconstriction, easy to lead to vascular blockage, interruption of blood supply, blood flow is blocked, so that the toxic substances in the blood vessels is not easy to discharge, thus triggering the onset of cardiovascular disease, so pay attention to protection. First of all, we should pay great attention to keep warm; secondly, patients should be stable, emotional excitement is the taboo of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, hyperlipidemia patients in particular should be relaxed, do not let the emotional ups and downs too much; also appropriate exercise, reduced exercise will also cause slow blood flow, lipid elevation, so we should reasonably arrange the exercise time and control the amount of exercise. 3, prevention of gastrointestinal disease winter climate, the human body is stimulated by cold air, gastric acid secretion will increase, easy to make the gastrointestinal spasmodic contraction; in addition, the weather turns cold, people’s appetite, increased food, gastrointestinal burden will also be increased, but also easy to cause chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and other gastrointestinal disease recurrence. Gastrointestinal diseases focus on prevention, should do: eat less greasy and irritating food, quit smoking, quit drinking, develop good habits, avoid overeating and overeating before bedtime; eat more easily digestible food to reduce the gastrointestinal burden; strengthen physical exercise, pay attention to maintain a happy mood and good state of mind, conducive to the normal digestion and absorption of food, the gastrointestinal system plays a protective and promotional role, and help chronic gastrointestinal tract disease recovery.