Suddenly the warm wind comes, following the minor heat.
Minor Heat is the 11th solar term of the 24 solar terms and the fifth solar term of summer. Heat, indicating the meaning of heat, minor heat for small heat, means that from the beginning of minor heat the weather began to be hot, but not to the hottest, to the hottest time.
Minor heat is divided into three seasons: the first is the warm wind; The second season cricket lives in the world; Three eagles come and fly.
Customs of minor heat
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There is a folk custom of "eating new", that is, eating new rice after Minor Heat. After the farmers grind the newly cut rice into rice, they make a good meal for the gods and ancestors of the grain, and then everyone eats the new wine and so on. It is said that "eating new" is "eating Xin", which is the first Xin day after the Minor Heat Festival. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice and old rice cooked together, plus newly listed vegetables and so on. Therefore, there is a folk saying that eating millet in minor heat and eating grain in Major heat.
Fu noodles
In the season of Minor Heat, just when the wheat harvest is less than a month, every family is full of wheat, and in the dog days, people\'s spirit is tired and their appetite is not good, so people use newly ground flour to make dumplings, or eat noodles made by new white noodles, and there is a saying that "first dumplings and second noodles, three pancakes and eggs". Dog days can also eat water, fried noodles. Over the water, that is, the noodles are cooked with cold water, mixed with garlic, poured on the gravy, not only delicious, but also can "heart fire".
Drying calligraphy, painting, clothes
During Minor Heat, the folk also have the custom of drying calligraphy, painting and clothes. As the saying goes, "On June 6, people dry their clothes and dragons dry their robes." Because this day, almost on the eve of minor heat, is the highest temperature in the year, the longest sunshine time, the strongest day of sunlight radiation, so every household will choose this day "sun Fu", the clothes stored in the cabinet to dry outside to receive the sun exposure, to tide, to wet, mildew and mothproof.
Eat lotus root
People have the habit of eating lotus root during minor heat. Lotus root contains a lot of carbohydrates and rich calcium, phosphorus, iron and a variety of vitamins, and dietary fiber, has the effect of clearing heat and nourishing blood to remove trouble, suitable for summer consumption. Fresh lotus root simmered with low heat, sliced with an appropriate amount of honey, can be eaten freely, has the effect of soothing sleep, can treat blood deficiency insomnia.
Eat eel
As the saying goes: eels compete with ginseng during minor heat. Eel is born in the mud caves along the water bank, and the summer eel is the most nutritious and delicious one month around Minor Heat. Summer is often chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases of the remission period, and eels warm taste sweet, with tonifying qi, liver and spleen, rheumatism, strong bones and other effects.
The health of minor heat
Retreat from the heat
As the saying goes, "Heat in the three Fu", this is the beginning of entering the dog days. "Fu" is the meaning of hiding, so people should go out less to avoid heat. Minor heat climate is hot, the human body sweating, consumption, people are easily upset, tired and weak, so people should pay attention to the combination of work and rest when working to protect the Yang of the human body. Should calm down to feel the change, comply with the weather, calm is the key to heat down.
Light diet
During Minor heat, there is much rain and high temperature, which easily makes human digestive tract diseases frequent and frequent. Therefore, we must pay attention to food hygiene, to light, rich nutrition is appropriate. You can drink some porridge, with lotus leaves, tuckahoe, lentils, barley, poria, alisma, kapok and other materials into the heat soup or porridge, or sweet or salty, very suitable for this term to eat, eat more fruit is also beneficial to prevent heat. However, the diet should not be excessive, so as not to increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, and serious diarrhea will be caused.
Don\'t be cold
In hot weather, people like to eat cold drinks and take cold showers. As everyone knows, these are very bad for health, it is easy to cause physical discomfort, or bury health risks. Eating cold drinks immediately after meals will reduce the secretion of gastric acid and the immune function of the digestive system, causing intestinal diseases such as enteritis. A large number of cold drinks entering the body can cause the contraction of the blood vessels of the gastric mucosa, reduce the secretion of gastric juice, lead to decreased appetite and affect the digestion of food.
Unseated timber
There is a folk saying "do not sit on stone in winter, do not sit on wood in summer". After Minor heat, the temperature is high and humidity is high. For a long time, the wood in the open air, such as chairs and stools, after dew and rain, containing more moisture, the surface looks dry, but after the sun, the temperature rises, it will emit moisture, sitting on it for a long time, can induce hemorrhoids, rheumatism and arthritis and other diseases. Therefore, during minor heat, we must pay attention not to sit on the wood placed in the open air for a long time.