Yan Zhenghua, born in February 1920, is the chief physician and professor of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and a master of Chinese medicine. He has been engaged in traditional Chinese medicine for more than 70 years and has been teaching for nearly 60 years.
When I first saw Yan Lao, I was deeply moved by his white hair like snow, and I couldn’t help but think of Marshal Chen Yi’s poem: The thicker the frost, the thicker the color. Yan Lao recalled that, except for typhoid fever and bronchitis when he was young, he no longer remembered any particularly serious illness. He summed up the way of health preservation into 8 words: daily life is regular, diet is disciplined.
My daily routine: Yan Lao goes to bed before 10 o’clock every night, wakes up at 6 o’clock in the morning, and takes a 20-minute nap at noon.
Diet: Yan Lao’s diet is mainly light, he likes to eat some digestible and nutritious food, but he never overeats. Eat more vegetables, fish, eggs, and less meat. Although you like spicy food, you should pay attention to moderation. His breakfast is very characteristic, usually a bag of milk, a portion of tofu steamed with dried shrimps, and sometimes an egg. For lunch, focus on the combination of dry and thin. Fruits often eat bananas, apples, and scald with boiling water before eating cold fruits to prevent stomach damage. Yan Lao sometimes also drinks some leek porridge. The specific method is: prepare 10 grams of leek seeds, 50 grams of japonica rice and a little salt, first simmer the chive seeds, then put them in a casserole together with the japonica rice and fine salt, add 500 ml of water, and the rice is cooked.
Drinking rice wine: Wine can activate blood and benefit the heart. Yan Lao sometimes drinks one or two taels of rice wine, but he never touches hard liquor.
Quitting smoking: In his early years, Yan Lao learned to smoke because of work to refresh himself. Considering the damage to the respiratory tract and other organs, he decided to quit smoking later.
Tea tasting: Mr. Yan also has a habit of drinking tea every day, especially black tea, but later, due to easy insomnia, he gave up black tea and replaced it with ginseng tea, often using 5-10 grams of ginseng to soak in water. one day.
Exercise: Yan Lao’s exercise habit was developed at a young age. Now get up in the morning to play Tai Chi or jog for 20 minutes, and go out for an hour at four or five in the afternoon.
Emotional: He claims to have no major twists and turns in his life, but Yan Lao is well versed in the principles of emotional regulation. Don’t get angry easily, and don’t like to be quick with your tongue. If there is something bothering you, take a walk or do something else to distract and forget.
Practicing calligraphy and planting flowers are two joys in Yan Lao’s life. The two large pots of lush orchids and Milanese on the coffee table and the Clivia on the balcony are the masterpieces of this flower lover, which also makes his simple book house full of vitality. Sometimes splashing ink and brushing, the body and mind reach a state of “forgetting myself”.