Living tips at Slight Heat
Share to Facebook  Share to Twitter  Share to Linkedin  Share to Google  Share to MSN  Share to Plurk 

When the sun reaches the celestial longitude of 105 degrees, it's the time for "Slight Heat", usually happening on July 7 or July 8. Slight heat means it's hot but not thehottest. The continuous rainfall season for cities along "Yangtze River" will soon stop and enter summer days. On the other hand, the north and north-east of China will enter the rain season. Therefore, when "Slight Heat" arrives, people in north should pay attention to waterlogging, but in the south, drought. As mentioned earlier, three periods of the hot season come one by one after "Summer Solstice". In the Chinese, it's called the three "Fu", meaning that the weather is so hot and people better lie down than to move. Around the "Slight Heat" period, it's the first "Fu" period. The wind comes withhot wave, the cricket starts to crawl from the field into the yard and young eagle starts to learn how to fly and hunt.

living tips at slight heat in 24 solar terms of china

Traditional Customs
In ancient times, emperors used to give out ice and fried noodles to his officials and people on the first "Fu" period. Nowadays, people eat Jiaozi on the first "Fu", noodles on the second and eggs with baked pancake on the third. In Xuzhou, the tradition of eating lamb can be traced back to thousands of years ago. At that time, there already had been the saying that "Having a bowl of lamp soup, no need to see the doctors."

Healthy Living Tips
On the eleven's solar term, the Yang Qi in human's body is the most vigorous. People should pay attention to work and life balance and eat food which can help release the hotness. A very good dish is Chinese porridge, cooked with materials such as lotus leafor hyacinth bean. Another proverb is "Don't sit on rocks in the winter and woods in the summer". This is because wood can obtain wetness after rain. Although it may look dry,it still diffuses humidity after sunshine. Sitting on wood may cause piles, rheumatism and arthritis.



 Key words:  solar terms
Senior Expert Service
--Provide professional and valuable advice on health issues.

--One-to-one full service by assigned experienced expert.
Tailor-Made
--We customize your diagnosis based on syndrome differentiation.

--We customize prescriptions to meet specific needs of your condition.
Quality Guarantee
--We use only natural medicines approved by SFDA.

--We guarantee TCM product of unsurpassed quality.
Economical & Personalized
--We help you to save a lot of examination fees.

--24 hours online, all service to meet your own needs.


Copyright @2000-2025 tcmwindow.com. All Rights Reserved.
E-MAIL:tcmwindow@yahoo.com