Tips for keeping healthy during Qingming Festival

Qingming is an important solar term in my country, usually in spring. During Qingming Festival, most areas have the custom of offering sacrifices. On the one hand, due to the special weather, and on the other hand, due to excessive worry, many people will experience some physical problems during the Qingming Festival. Therefore, it is important to adopt certain methods to maintain health during the Qingming Festival. Next, I will introduce to you some common knowledge about health preservation during Qingming Festival!

1. Eat a clean and nourishing diet

Qingming is the time when cold air and warm air alternate, and the weather is getting warmer, so the weather is sunny and rainy the next. The human body often experiences paralysis of the limbs. In the preparation of soups, in addition to promoting diuresis and eliminating moisture, it is also necessary to properly nourish the body. Therefore, nourishing the blood and relaxing the muscles are the most important, and light nourishing food is the main method.

2. Don’t change clothes too early

Around the Qingming Festival, because the climate changes unpredictably and the temperature difference between morning and evening is large, you should prepare a coat that can be put on and taken off at will. Wear a windbreaker when you go out to work in the morning and keep warm. If you feel hot at noon, you can take it off and put it on when you get home from get off work in the evening. This will effectively prevent colds. This is also what is meant by covering up in spring. You can’t change into spring clothes until after Qingming Festival, in mid-April. Of course, the process of spring covering should also vary from person to person, and you should decide how much clothes to add or remove based on your physical fitness. Generally speaking, we should add or remove clothes at any time according to climate changes and pay attention to keeping warm to help the body grow and resist external invasion, which is beneficial to our health.

3. Be careful about diseases entering your body through the mouth

The changeable weather can easily cause people to catch a cold, and cause tonsillitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia. This is also the peak season for respiratory infectious diseases such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, chickenpox, and epidemic meningitis. Therefore, you must pay close attention to weather changes, add or remove clothes, and try to avoid going to public places. You must pay special attention to the risk of disease entering the body through the mouth.

4. Don’t be too sad

Qingming Festival is an important festival for commemorating ancestors and expressing grief through activities such as ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. When seeing the tombstones of their loved ones, many people can't help but miss them and feel extremely sad. Everyone will have this feeling at this moment. However, excessive sadness can have serious consequences on physical health. People with high blood pressure and coronary heart disease should control their emotions to prevent a recurrence of their old illness. In addition, spring is a high incidence period for many mental illnesses. Tomb-sweeping Day can easily make people feel low and depressed, which can induce mental illness. Therefore, people should not be too sad before and after Qingming Festival, but should maintain stable emotions and a happy mood.