浅谈岭南饮食文化中的养生智慧

A Brief Discussion on the Health Care Wisdom of South of the Five Ridges Diet Culture

岭南地区气候湿热,一年之中天热湿重的时间较长,如果湿与热合并侵入人体,则容易引发人体各种湿热症状。岭南先民们早就摸索出一套通过饮食祛暑除湿,获得健康体魄的食疗方法,岭南人在食疗方面有着光辉的成就,其厚道包容的养生态度、药膳食疗的养生方法、务实创新的养生宗旨,构成了系统而完整的理论体系,是中国饮食文化重要的组成部分,并对岭南地区产生了深远影响。

In south of the Five Ridges, the weather is humid and hot. Heat and humidity occupies most time of a year. Combination of the two, if absorbed into a person’s body, may lead to many kinds of discomfort. The ancestors of South of the Five Ridges have figured out a diet therapy to keep the body healthy by removing heat and dampness out of one’s body. The people of South of the Five Ridges have made brilliant achievements in dietary therapy. Their generous and inclusive attitude to health, their health care method of food and herbal diet, and the practical and innovative features of their health care ideas, constitute a set of systematic and complete theory, contributing as an important part to Chinese diet culture, being greatly influential in that area.