What is the origin of the Little New Year’s Eve? What is the saying about health preservation?
Xiaonian mainly refers to the days during which there are folk activities such as pasting Spring Festival couplets, sweeping the house, and offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. It also means that people begin to prepare New Year's goods. The New Year should have a new look. So what is the origin of Xiaonian Eve? What is the saying about health preservation?What is the origin of Xiaonian Ye?Xiaonian, which falls on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, is the beginning of the entire Spring Festival celebration in China. There are two main customs: sweeping the house and offering sacrifices to the kitchen god. Let's take a look at the legend of the origin of Xiaonian:Legend has it that the Kitchen God was originally a commoner named Zhang Sheng. After marrying a wife, he spent his days in debauchery and lost all his family fortune, and was reduced to begging on the streets. One day, he went to beg at his ex-wife Guo Dingxiang's house. He was so ashamed that he dived under the stove and burned to death. When the Jade Emperor found out, he thought that Zhang Sheng had changed his mind and was not completely bad. Since he died at the bottom of the pot, he was named Kitchen God. He was required to report to heaven on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year and return to the bottom of the pot on New Year's Eve. Ordinary people feel that the Kitchen God must be respected because he has to report to Heaven. Therefore, the Han people have the "Little New Year" of worshiping the kitchen god on the 23rd and 24th of the twelfth lunar month, praying for peace and prosperity in the coming year. Fan Chengda of the Song Dynasty said in his "Poem on Offering to the Kitchen God": "According to ancient legend, on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God looks up to the sky and wants to speak. The cloud chariot and wind horses linger for a while, and every family prepares cups and plates for the rich offering. The pig's head is cooked hot, and the two fish are fresh, and the bait is made of bean paste, sweet pine and powder. Men offer wine and girls stay away. Pour wine and burn money to please the Kitchen God. Don't listen to the quarrels of maids, and don't be angry at the filth of cats and dogs. I will send you drunk and full to the Heaven's Gate. Don't complain about the long or short ladle. I will beg for the profits and share them when I return." It can be said that this poem vividly illustrates the customs and habits of the ancient Han people regarding offering to the Kitchen God. Of course, this is just a folk legend among the Han people and is not credible. What is the saying about health preservation?1. Don’t eat too much stove candy: You should eat stove candy during the New Year. Chinese medicine believes that sweetness enters the spleen, and eating sweet food can nourish qi and blood, replenish calories, relieve fatigue, regulate the stomach, detoxify, and relieve spasms. The spleen and stomach functions are relatively strong in winter, so eating sweets can replenish spleen yang, harmonize spleen and stomach qi and blood, and appropriately alleviate the negative impact brought about by the heavy burden of spleen and stomach transportation.2. Be happy: When children who work away from home rush back to celebrate the holidays, parents will surely be overjoyed. They will be busy preparing delicious food for their children during the day, and have long chats with their long-lost relatives at night, even until late at night. This should be the happiest thing for the elderly. However, "excessive joy leads to sadness". Prolonged emotional excitement will lead to increased heart rate and blood pressure, which has induced stroke or heart attack in many elderly people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. 3. Eat properly: During festivals, almost every family’s dining table is piled with meat, eggs, chicken, duck, fish and other foods. In addition, out of respect for the elderly, the younger generations keep serving food to the elderly. If the elderly are not careful, they will eat too much. Therefore, elderly friends must pay special attention and should not eat too much greasy meat dishes. They should eat some vegetables at every meal and stick to vegetarian dinner, eating until they are 70% to 80% full. 4. Don’t drink too much: toasting to celebrate can add to the festive atmosphere, but don’t drink to the point of being drunk. Alcohol has positive effects such as relieving mental stress, lowering cholesterol, preventing arteriosclerosis, and promoting sleep. Drinking a small amount of alcohol (1 ounce per day) can promote the secretion of gastric juice and facilitate food digestion; but excessive drinking will increase the liver's burden on detoxification, causing digestive system diseases such as alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis, and will also induce acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. 5. Play in moderation: During the holidays, families get together and every family wants to have fun. Even the elderly who rarely play mahjong on weekdays will sit around the mahjong table and compete with their children. Playing cards in moderation can bring joyful laughter, but don't overdo it. Especially for the elderly whose cardiovascular and cerebrovascular conditions are not very healthy, they should not indulge in play. The elderly should also not participate in gambling-type card games, as that kind of play can cause extreme mental stress and is very harmful to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems. |
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