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Lao Lao Heng Yan [EPUB ebook] 

Lao Lao Heng Yan is a monograph on health preservation for the elderly, which is a collection of health preservation thoughts from various families before the Qing Dynasty, combined with the author”s own personal experience, and is known as the health preservation book for the elderly. There are five volumes in the whole book: the first two volumes describe the appropriateness of daily life, such as sleeping well, eating, going out, disease prevention, medicine, recreation, guidance, etc.; the second volume lists spare things for residence, such as clothes, hats, beds, pillows, quilts, mattresses, bedrooms, etc.; at the end is a volume of porridge recipes, listing hundreds of porridge, for the needs of recuperating and curing diseases. This book starts with daily diet and daily life. It does not stand up to the new and unconventional, and talks about the methods of health preservation for the elderly with the Confucian attitude of "Don”t talk about weird power and chaos", and most of them have been experienced by the author, nuanced, and practical.