Why do people in China pay attention to eating while it is hot?

When it comes to eating, there is nothing in the world that people in China can eat and love more. There is an old saying that food is the most important thing for the people. For example, crayfish, as an invasive species in China, does not have the dignity that an invasive species should have. After being eaten by China people, it still needs to be farmed to survive. If any species has successfully invaded and spread in China, there is only one reason-it is not delicious. But eating is also very particular. China people can be said to be ahead of the world in terms of diet. As long as they can eat it, they will rack their brains to turn it into delicious food. Today, we will talk about "eating" this little thing.

Cold is a curse.

When it comes to how to eat, every family in China should have their own experience. For example, the same cabbage, Zhang San likes stewed tofu, Li Si likes vinegar, and everyone says it's delicious. However, everyone agrees to eat hot food in winter, but what about summer?

With the continuous development and change of the times, the habit that westerners like eating raw food is also introduced into China and widely accepted. After all, on a hot summer day, eating a cold drink, drinking some ice water and having a sweet iced watermelon is the best way to relieve the heat. Of course, this is how young people eat. If you are an elderly person, it is worse for you to let him/her drink a glass of ice water than to die, and it is even more impossible to drink a cold popsicle. Some young people may say that they are too old to enjoy, but they don't know that enjoyment is consuming your own health.

In fact, everyone understands the truth. For example, some girls have a terrible stomachache when they have their period, and they often roll around in bed in pain. Only when they asked her did they know that they had a cold drink the other day. It's really cool. They ate three at a time. Then no one can blame. Whether eating cold drinks does harm to other places or not, it must pass through your stomach first. In the human body, the stomach is a very fragile organ. If you freeze it, it will "repay" you sooner or later, such as diarrhea and abdominal pain, acid regurgitation and burping. But not just the stomach. Chinese medicine says that the stomach prefers warm to cold. In fact, the kidney also prefers warm to cold. From the perspective of modern medicine, the food we eat is basically digested by the stomach, and most of the toxins in the body are excreted by the kidneys. So just like companies talk about customers, people like to eat light food. You have to make compost for others. Is this business still necessary?

There is a saying: you can't listen to cold words, and you can't eat cold dishes and cold drinks. As we all know, people who listen are uncomfortable, and people who speak are not necessarily comfortable. What about cold dishes and cold drinks? When it comes to cold dishes, everyone can probably understand. After all, cold dishes don't taste good. Every time I go home for dinner, I can probably hear my family urging me, "Come and eat, the food will get cold later."

But "can't eat" just because it's not delicious? The same is true of cold drinks. As mentioned above, cold things are harmful to the stomach. From the point of view of western medicine, the temperature of cold things entering the stomach is 20-30 degrees lower than that in our stomach. Eating this food for a long time will cause a great burden on our stomach and damage the natural barrier of the stomach-gastric mucosa. In other words, it is easy to understand that everything you eat depends on your stomach to warm yourself up, so think about the feeling of holding an ice cube in your hand and covering it. "Weather-beaten" hands can't stand the temperature, let alone a delicate stomach.

The soil was hardened by fire.

Spleen and stomach belong to the soil in the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine and have two main functions. One is Shui Gu, which we are familiar with, that is, packing and digesting food; The other, which most of us are not familiar with, is called Tongjiang. It is the premise of acceptance that turbidity is lowered when it is lowered. If the intestines and stomach are blocked, it will not only reduce appetite, but also cause bad breath, abdominal distension and pain, belching, hiccups, constipation, and even nausea and vomiting. Of course, there is a prerequisite for a bad stomach. Generally speaking, it is improper diet, eating too much and getting cold. Fuyang moxibustion thinks that qi is born in soil and turns into fire, and the soil is full of fire and the fire is weak. Spleen and stomach govern transport and transformation, belonging to soil. There must be a force to transport and transform. Where does this power come from? Probably someone with a particularly active brain wants to understand that fire is like a machine powered by steam in the past. Only by heating with fire can steam have that kind of power, so it is powerful. On the other hand, if there is fire, it is naturally "weak" and weak.

From the perspective of health preservation, we think that health preservation is an endless function to maintain life, while Fuyang moxibustion thinks that soil has a regenerative function, which is what we call endless. The real health preservation is to nourish the spleen with fire. This fire can be a diet fire or our moxibustion fire. Only in this way can our vitality rise and fall harmoniously, enter and exit in an orderly way and never end?

Here, what we call "fire" can be understood as yang qi. If people who are not rich in themselves do not add fuel to the fire, the result can be imagined; Even if the fire itself is very prosperous and sunny, long-term "fire fighting" will lead to more and more weakness and various diseases come uninvited.

Some people may say that you can't eat it cold or hot. Aren't esophageal cancer and gastric cancer related to eating spicy food? But what I want to say is, otherwise. When we say "heat", we mean warmth, which was advocated by Sun Simiao. If the stomach warms up and the "stove" in our body keeps burning steadily, then it's right to eat!

The ancients didn't cheat me.

The ancients said, "Warm things are not as good as cold things." The reason is actually the same. Having said that, let's talk about a practical example.

The winter in Tongli is particularly cold, and the cold in the south goes deep into the bone marrow. Even the room is colder than the outside, and hot water will turn into ice water in a short time. My mother is used to living in the north and has heating at home. Water will not cool after a long time. After coming here, she still drinks water according to the previous time, but the water is often cold (I believe friends in the south have a deep understanding). Over time, he often told me that he had a stomachache. Later, every time she wanted to drink water, I cooked it for her now. When she was fine, I gave her moxibustion for a long time, only to find that she had not complained about her stomach discomfort for a long time. Looking back, didn't drinking palatable hot water and moxibustion add a fire to her "stove"?

Furthermore, Asians are physically weaker than westerners themselves. Eating hot food can provide more energy for our body and supplement the fire we lack.

We have been paying attention to eating while it is hot for a long time. When we think about it, it is actually the wisdom of our ancestors. Not only the medical profession knows this truth and explains it, but also the common people know this way of keeping in good health. I can't help sighing that the ancients didn't bully me. No wonder the old saying always says that if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer.

In short, no matter how angry you are, don't try to challenge your own "firepower" limit, let alone be insatiable in the hot summer, that's spiritual leakage. Remember to remember: don't be cold, the body is your own, and the stove has to be burned by yourself for a long time.