Recreation and health preservation refers to relaxing, happy, lively and diverse activities, in a beautiful living atmosphere and elegant taste, to make people feel comfortable, nourish their minds, increase their wisdom, exercise their muscles and bones, invigorate their qi and blood, exercise their bodies, strengthen their physique, and integrate health preservation into entertainment, so as to achieve the purpose of nourishing their spirits, strengthening their physique and prolonging their lives.
The activities of entertainment and health preservation are mainly in our spare time, and we can adjust and enrich our life with healthy and beautiful "entertainment" forms. There are many ways to keep in good health by entertainment. This paper introduces the common piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flowers and trees, tourism and fishing.
First, the piano, chess, books and paintings
Qin, chess, books and paintings are called the four elegant tastes by the ancients, and they are also the main forms and methods of entertainment and health preservation. It blends art and emotion together, which has strong appeal and obvious health care function. Moreover, they also have their own characteristics. This is as follows:
(A) Qin and music
Qin is an ancient stringed instrument with national characteristics in China. Because it is often played with harps, it is often called Qin and harps. The sound of harps and harps refers to music with beautiful timbre. In a broad sense, it refers to music.
Music can be enjoyed and entertained, including singing and playing music. Listening to music can change people’s mood, while plucking or singing can not only adjust their mood, but also directly vent their emotions.
1. Health preserving mechanism
(1) Express emotions and adjust emotions: Music, with its special language form, meets people’s needs to express their emotions and wishes, and proper expression of emotions is very beneficial to people’s health. Music can also adjust people’s mood through the ups and downs of its melody and the strength of its rhythm. Music can vent people’s feelings and emotions, so it makes people feel relieved, calm, open-minded and optimistic.
(2) Harmonizing the blood vessels and nourishing the five internal organs: Music makes people happy by adjusting their emotions, so that the whole body’s veins are smooth and the qi and blood can be adjusted. The ancients believed that the five tones of Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu in the pentatonic scale had different regulatory functions with the five internal organs. Gongyin is melodious and harmonious, which helps the spleen to be healthy and has a strong appetite; Businessmen are eager to calm down, be good at controlling impatience and anger, and make people peaceful; The horn sound is smooth and peaceful, good at eliminating melancholy and helping people sleep; Sign the sound to suppress the chanting, regulate the blood vessels, and invigorate the spirit; Feather sound is soft and thorough, thought-provoking and enlightening.
(3) Dynamic body-building: Music can not only make people feel comfortable by listening to it, but also make people feel healthy by playing different musical instruments or dancing with beautiful music. Playing, pulling, playing and plucking various musical instruments can be used with both hands and heart, which can not only relax emotions, but also exercise limbs. Moreover, finger movements can also strengthen the brain and improve intelligence. In the realm of music melody, stretching the body, singing and dancing lightly, make people move emotionally, relax their emotions and move their bones and muscles, so as to achieve the purpose of moving and keeping fit.
The human body has various periodic circadian rhythms, such as heartbeat, respiration, gastrointestinal peristalsis, etc., which are collectively called biological rhythms. Normal biological rhythms all have stable periods, and various biological rhythms constitute a synchronous or coordinated relationship. The melody and rhythm of music can play a role in regulating the biological rhythm of human body, so it is beneficial to human health.
2. Precautions
(1) Listening to music should be targeted according to different situations: for example, when eating, it is more appropriate to listen to relaxed and lively music, which can promote digestion and absorption; Listening to slow and melodious music before going to bed is conducive to falling asleep; Listening to happy and lively music during the break is conducive to relieving fatigue.
(2) According to the individual’s physical condition, choose music: for example, the elderly, the infirm and the heart patients should choose slow-paced music; Young people should choose strong rhythm music and so on.
(3) Choose tracks according to personal preferences: regardless of national music, orchestral music, or local operas, they are all based on personal preferences, and they can also play a role in regulating emotions.
(4) Pay attention to the change of mood: practice and play music, and only when you are in a leisurely mood can you achieve the purpose of keeping fit. When mood swings, sadness and anger, it is better not to play for the time being.
(2) playing chess
There are many kinds of chess in our country, such as Go, Oak Chess and Military Chess, which appeal to both refined and popular tastes, and are varied and interesting. When playing chess, the spirit is single-minded, the intention is to keep the game, all distractions are gone, and the expression is relaxed. The ancients said that "those who are good at playing chess live long". Playing chess is not only an intense intellectual competition, but also an entertainment that is beneficial to body and mind and prolongs life.
1. Health preserving mechanism
(1) Nurturing intelligence: Playing chess is an activity that moves in quietness and moves in quietness. It requires concentration and concentration. When you are calm, your mind will be calm, and when you are focused, all your distractions will disappear. The change of chess can exercise people’s adaptability, which is not only a kind of rest and recreation, but also an activity of intellectual cultivation.
(2) Exercise thinking: Playing chess is an interesting and meaningful mental activity. Playing chess often can exercise your thinking and keep your intelligence.
(3) Physical and mental comfort: Playing chess with chess friends and consulting skills can enhance the exchanges between friends, especially among middle-aged and elderly people. Playing chess as an activity can also make people feel happy, have something to trust and make them feel comfortable.
2. Precautions
Playing chess is a beneficial activity, but it needs to be moderate, and the following points should be paid attention to:
(1) It is not advisable to play chess immediately after a meal: you should take a break after a meal so that food can be digested and absorbed.
(2) Don’t spend too long: If you don’t pay attention to moderation in playing chess, you will have poor venous blood return of the lower limbs, resulting in numbness and pain of the lower limbs. Therefore, you should exercise properly and not sit for a long time.
(3) Don’t be emotional: Being too nervous and excited is very harmful to the elderly, and it can often lead to stroke and angina pectoris. We should take the discussion of skills as the starting point and purpose, and we should not be competitive, regardless of gains and losses, in order to be calm.
(4) Don’t burn the midnight oil: Old people’s physiological function declines, and they are prone to fatigue and recovery. If the rest at night is reduced and the body’s resistance is reduced, diseases will easily occur.
(3) Painting and calligraphy
Book refers to calligraphy and painting refers to painting. China’s calligraphy and painting is an artistic expression with strong national characteristics, and it is also one of the effective means of health preservation.
There are two aspects to preserving health and treating diseases with calligraphy and painting. One is learning to paint, and the other is appreciating calligraphy and painting. Learning books and painting refers to doing it yourself, or practicing calligraphy or painting, which integrates learning, fitness and artistic appreciation. Appreciation of calligraphy and painting refers to the appreciation of the artistic treasures of ancient and modern famous calligraphy and painting tablets, and achieves the purpose of keeping fit in the enjoyment of artistic beauty.
1. Health preserving mechanism
(1) Regulating blood gas and dredging meridians: Learning books and painting should have a correct posture. Head straight, shoulders flush, chest straight, feet flat, so as to lift the strength of the whole body. When writing and painting, we must concentrate, be upright and harmonious, and use our hands, wrists, elbows and arms flexibly, so as to mobilize the whole body’s qi and strength. In this way, it is natural to accommodate the whole body’s blood and gas, the body’s blood and blood are smooth, the five internal organs are harmonious, and the pulse is dredged, so that the functions of various parts of the body are adjusted to promote blood circulation and metabolism, and the energy is naturally vigorous.
(2) Meditation and peace of mind: calligraphy and painting activities can balance the mind.
Learn and then know what is lacking. Knowing what is lacking means that you can be determined to make progress, buy calligraphy theory, engrave copybooks, visit book fairs, watch and appreciate, and practice hard to draw and learn books. Only in this way can you improve your discriminating ability and truly master kung fu. Enterprising is always comforting. Once you make progress, you will enjoy yourself and feel happy.
Learning books, painting, watching and pondering can increase people’s interest, cultivate their sentiment, and when practicing calligraphy and painting, make the body often in a "qigong state" of internal unexpected force, unify people’s spirit and shape, and make people meditate and concentrate, which is also an important aspect to eliminate the interference of bad factors. Moreover, learning books and painting is not only intended for the heart, but also for the pen, which exercises the bones and muscles and makes the blood flow.
In a word, the principle of fitness and nourishing of calligraphy and painting lies in increasing interest, entertaining both body and mind, matching emotions and unifying spirit and form.
2. Precautions
Practicing calligraphy or painting also places great emphasis on good or bad mood. Emotion directly affects the effect of calligraphy and painting works. If you want to do calligraphy and painting, you should pay attention to your mood. If you are in a bad mood, you don’t have to force it. Therefore, we should pay attention to the following points:
(1) When you are tired or physically weak after illness, you don’t need to be energetic. You are already deficient in qi, and if you consume gas again, it will increase your physical burden and it will be difficult to recover.
(2) If you are angry, frightened or in a bad mood, you should not write and draw at once, and your mood is difficult to calm down. At this time, one will not write good words and draw good pictures, and the third will also hurt your health.
(3) It is not advisable to write and draw immediately after a meal.
(4) "Success comes naturally", you should not be too hasty, you should persevere and insist on regular practice.
Second, tourism
Tourism is one of the contents of entertainment and health preservation. Throughout the ages, health care practitioners advocated hiking, while temples, temples, temples and temples of Taoists and Buddhists were mostly built in places surrounded by mountains and surrounded by water, with beautiful scenery, in order to gain the freshness of mountains and rivers and cultivate one’s morality. Tourism can not only get a glimpse of the magnificent scenery of great rivers and mountains, but also stretch our feelings, broaden our minds, exercise and increase our knowledge. It is an activity that is beneficial to physical and mental recuperation.
(A) health mechanism
Tourism is a comprehensive exercise beneficial to the body and mind. It can not only enjoy the natural beauty, but also exercise the body, broaden the horizons and expand the knowledge, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
1. Enjoy the natural scenery and breathe fresh air. When people devote themselves to nature, deep mountains and dense forests, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, pastoral flowers and plants, they can’t help but feel refreshed and breathe the fresh air of nature.
2. Cultivate temperament and increase knowledge. When you look at the natural scenery at the top of the seaside, the vast Yuan Ye, lush and deep mountains, unpredictable clouds, endless rivers and seas, and vast world make people feel refreshed and their bad feelings disappear immediately. Poets, musicians and painters can find inspiration for artistic creation. Knowing different customs and different geographical environments is both eye-catching and informative.
3. Exercise. In the course of hiking and wading through mountains and rivers, I not only enjoyed the wonderful scenery of nature and the beautiful environment, but also exercised my muscles and joints and exercised the traveler’s physique. For the elderly and infirm, they should only take a stroll for recreation, instead of seeking quick and far, they can walk slowly and stop at times.
4. Get spiritual enjoyment. The progress of human society is itself a process of conquering the unknown.
(B) the principles of tourism fitness and matters needing attention
1. Consider the season. In spring, the air is clear, everything is proud, spring buds sprout, and the air of natural hair is born. Every spring, we should conform to the vitality of nature, and outing is a beneficial activity. The weather is hot in summer, and the heat is unbearable. At this time, if you go to the seaside or the forest, you can escape the heat and nourish your qi. If you travel, you should also choose the right time to avoid direct sunlight, especially to avoid prolonged exposure to the sun. In the evening, boating on the lake and watching lotus flowers can make people feel cool. The crisp autumn season is the best time to travel. Whether climbing mountains near the water or visiting historic sites, it is the most pleasant golden season. In winter, there is too much rain and snow, so it is generally not suitable to travel far, but it is also quite interesting to walk in the snow and enjoy the plum blossoms nearby and watch the iceberg Yushu.
2. Pay special attention to safety to avoid accidents.
Third, flowers and trees, fishing
(1) Flowers and trees
Since ancient times, flowers have won people’s love for their color, fragrance, style and style. Flowers can not only beautify the environment, purify the air, and benefit people’s physical and mental health, but also be an indispensable material resource in human life.
1. Health preserving mechanism. Flowers and trees not only beautify the environment by their shapes and colors, but also make people feel comfortable and fascinated by their fragrance. Planting flowers and trees can also encourage people to constantly learn relevant knowledge and master new technologies, and can also exercise their muscles and enrich their life interests. Adjust the mood, exercise the bones and muscles, and have the function of both mental and physical cultivation.
Scientists’ research has proved that daily activities in gardens or green areas can increase endurance by 15% and shorten the time to eliminate fatigue by 80%. In green gardens, skin temperature can be reduced by 1℃ ~ 2℃, pulse can be reduced by 4 ~ 8 times per minute, breathing is slow and even, blood flow slows down, nervous nerves can be relaxed, and the sensitivity of smell, hearing and thinking activities can be enhanced.
According to research, leaves can absorb sound waves and reduce noise; The photosynthesis of leaves can purify the air; In summer, leaves can also evaporate water, which not only increases air humidity, but also absorbs heat; Green can also regulate nerve fatigue, protect the retina, and at the same time, it has the effect of relieving nervous tension and making people quiet.
2. The principle of flower cultivation and fitness. Raising flowers at home is an interesting activity. But we should also pay attention to the following aspects.
(1) Growing flowers in the room: Growing flowers in the room should be based on the room conditions, and not too much should be cultivated.
(2) Pay attention to observation and change it at any time: some essential oils secreted by flowers and plants will make some people have headaches, or make patients with bronchial asthma ill, and people who are allergic to pollen should not put flowers indoors. Some flowers, such as geranium, marigold and primrose, should not be touched by hand to avoid allergic dermatitis or eczema.
(2) Fishing
Fishing, as an outdoor activity, can not only exercise, but also cultivate one’s morality and be healthy.
1. Health preserving mechanism
(1) Exercise: Fishing often requires hiking near the water to find a good place to fish. Whether walking or cycling, it is a kind of physical exercise in itself. On the way, I have thought of the fish taking the bait, which makes people relaxed.
(2) Cultivate interest: the fishing environment is mostly surrounded by mountains, deep in green forests or in beautiful waters and streams. This environment makes people get rid of the noise and air pollution in the city, making people quiet and carefree.
(3) Exercising one’s mind and nourishing one’s spirit: When fishing, the body is extremely relaxed, which is loose and static, but on the other hand, the mind must be concentrated. It is good for improving visual ability and mental agility.
(4) temper your will: fishing requires patience and care. The word "steady sitting on a fishing boat" is a good summary. Fishing should be regarded as a means to temper the will, overcome impatience and cultivate a stable character.
2. Precautions for fishing
(1) Rheumatism patients should give up this activity, because being near water can make their condition worse and make them feel unwell.
(2) Pay attention to safety and don’t sit in a damp place to avoid getting sick.
(3) If the time is moderate, we should pay attention to the fact that the time should not be too long, we should not be too focused on it, and we should not be depressed without catching fish, thus destroying the good original intention of fishing. It is better for many people to be together, and it is more interesting to combine with activities such as picnics and picnics.
(Jiao Zhihong, deputy chief physician of Beijing Fengtai Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, authorized to publish on this website)