We Chinese people attach great importance to sitting on the moon. After giving birth, mothers will start to sit on the moon. There are many taboos in the moon. So many people will have such a question, why don't foreign women have to sit on the moon? After having a baby, they will jump around?
Go to extremes of 'sitting on the moon' and 'not sitting on the moon'
Because of the interpretation of a piece of news, Chinese people have two extreme opposite ideas about "sitting on the moon". One idea is that: living on the same earth, are women, foreign mothers do not sit on the moon after the birth of children, we do not need to be so coquettish. Another thought: sitting on the moon is a tradition, so we should live a 42 day 'moon' life in accordance with the old methods, touch less cold water and don't blow cold wind.
In fact, both of them are extreme. Medicine thinks that the puerpera has experienced more than ten hours of production process, consumed a lot of physical strength and energy, and needs to be recuperated and maintained for a period of time after childbirth. After childbirth, some changes have taken place in the body of the parturient. Proper rest, supplemented by reasonable diet and exercise, is conducive to the recovery of the body. According to British media, Kate is expected to return to her mother's home for at least six weeks after childbirth, not as soon as we thought she would go to work or entertainment. Therefore, the postpartum period of time for physical care is in line with scientific principles.
Do you have to follow the tradition of "sitting on the moon"?
The old people often say 'you don't have a good time sitting on the moon, don't think it's ok now, you'll know it's serious later', which makes many pregnant women dare not not not to stop, for fear of falling down with 'moonsickness'. In the middle of the month, the parturient will be required not to bathe, wash her hair, blow her hair, go out, eat raw and cold food, get out of bed and exercise, wear thick cotton padded clothes even in hot summer, etc., which will lead to the physical discomfort of the parturient. Now we advocate scientific and reasonable confinement. After all, living conditions will continue to improve. We should never "confinement" because of superstition and make a mess of ourselves at last.
No, it's because the East and the West are different?
Is it the reason why people in the West don't have to sit on the moon? As the saying goes, people in the East and the West have different living habits and environments over the years, which leads to some differences in the adaptability of some functions of the human body. For example, the body hair of westerners is very heavy, and even the chest is hairy. Their pores are very big, and their bones are thick. They will have more opportunities to dispel the cold, so they are not too afraid of cold evil. This kind of physique, let them drink cold drinks and take cold baths on weekdays, have no great influence.
Look at our Chinese people again. Since ancient times, they have mainly eaten fibrous food, including grains and vegetables. As the diet is light, so our body hair is very light, the skin is tight and delicate, the pores are very small, and the joints are also very fine. Some Chinese doctors think: 'in general, Chinese people's joints are closed, and after childbirth, with the opening of the pelvis, the muscles and bones of the whole body of the parturient are in an open and relaxed state. At this time, it is easy to take advantage of the cold and enter the human body through the open joints. At the end of the month, the pelvis and the whole body of the mother will gradually return to the normal closed state. 'then, if the body enters cold evil during the period of the moon, it will be locked in the body, leaving serious complications.
From the point of view of human physiological structure, the adjustment and change of women's body during pregnancy are the same, so they must recuperate and recuperate after giving birth. Western women do not pay attention to the care of the moon because of their high protein intake, large amount of exercise and stronger physique.
But that doesn't mean that Westerners have nothing to do without a month. Some experts think: 'relevant information shows that many Western women are more likely to suffer from various gynaecological diseases after middle age than Chinese women, especially the proportion of breast cancer. These indirectly prove that the rest and maintenance of the puerperal recovery period is closely related to the health of a woman's life.