Keep warm and healthy this winter
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Dongzhi (冬至), or the Winter Solstice, is an important solar term in the traditional Chinese calendar and a significant cultural festival in China. This year the Winter Solstice fell on December 21.
It is a crucial time for health preservation.
During the cold winter, when all things are dormant, it is advised to go to bed early and wake up late, and keep warm to align with the season’s energy.
Noon in winter is the ideal time to enjoy the sun. Sunbathing helps connect the body’s yang, or warm, energy with the natural yang energy, therefore promoting circulation and enhancing physical health, which is especially beneficial for those people with yang deficiency.
Despite the cold, maintaining regular exercise is important, balancing activity and rest without becoming too sedentary.
Maintaining a positive mood is also crucial, as a joyful spirit ensures smooth circulation of qi, or energy, and blood, and benefits overall health.
In terms of dietary adjustments, middle-aged and elderly individuals should focus on warming and nourishing foods in winter. Options like ginger, cinnamon, pepper, lamb, beef and ejiao, or donkey-skin gelatin, can help dispel cold and support yang energy.
Cordyceps duck soup involves cleaning a whole duck, blanching it, and then stuffing it with cordyceps, green onions and ginger, adding cooking wine and salt, and simmering them together.
Ejiao walnut paste is made by soaking ejiao in rice wine for 3-5 days, then steaming it with the wine until dissolved, before mixing it with red dates, crushed walnuts, longan pulp and black sesame.
Finally, add rock sugar and steam until melted. Then refrigerate the paste for 24 hours and cut into pieces.
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