Chapter 35 To the Fourth Brother: There are five things to do to keep one's health

【original】 About Brother Cheng: The price of grain in the countryside is getting lower day by day, and the crops and beans are flourishing. It is still a scene of peace, which is extremely comforting.The thieves withdrew from the territory of Cao Yun since the end of March. Fortunately, they belonged to the east of the mountain canal.It wasn't until the end of May that each stock of a piece of cattle began to flee to the west of Zhoujiakou, and Ren Lai each stock.It began to flee to the west of Taihe.For several months in summer and autumn, Shandong and Jiangsu can sit back and relax, but Henan, Anhui and Hubei will be in a hurry.

I plan to go to the Taoyuan area of ​​Suqian within a few days to inspect the embankment wall, that is, to approach the Huai River on the waterway to Zhoujiakou.Taking a small boat in the heat of summer is a very difficult thing. Because most of the land routes are flooded and it is not easy to hire a car, we have to use water instead.Mr. Yu's situation is getting worse day by day, and he can barely support him for a year or so.Because Siwu's brothers are not very healthy, and their nephews and nephews in later generations are especially weak, it is advisable to ask for health maintenance methods on weekdays, and not to randomly inject medicines temporarily.

There are one thing about the method of nourishing one's health: one is to have a constant sleep and food.The second is to punish anger, the third is to abstain from desire, the fourth is to wash feet every night before going to bed, and the fifth is to walk 3,000 steps each day after two meals.Punishing anger is the so-called health preservation in Yu chapter, which is based on less anger.Sleeping and eating are constant, and washing feet are two things; Xinggang has been traveling for ten years, and Yu Yi has been learning for seven years.Three thousand steps after a meal, I tried it out recently, and I will never stop. I have worked too long in the past, and I am nearly fifty years old. I would like to make up my mind to do these five things, and I urge my brother Yuan and other scholars to do it.

At the same time, Yu and Yuandi were ennobled and opened the mansion. The family was very prosperous, but it is not a way to always rely on it. I remember that it was the first month of Haihai, and Xinggang Gong reprimanded Zhuting Gong and said: "Although Kuanyi is a Hanlin, my family still relies on farming. , don’t rely on him to take refuge.” This phrase is the most reasonable, and now we should keep this second phrase as our lifeline.I hope that my younger brother will only work in the fields, supplemented by books, vegetables, fish and pigs, and early scanning of Kaobao horoscopes.

The reason why a family can last for a long time is not to rely on a momentary official title, but to rely on the long-term family rules, not to rely on the sudden development of one or two people, but to rely on the maintenance of the public.If I am blessed, I will leave office and go home, and I will try my best to maintain it with my younger brother.Old relatives and family members, poor and lowly clansmen and party members should not be neglected, and the poor are treated the same as the rich. The idea of ​​predicting the decline when it is prosperous has its own solid foundation. (the fifth day of June in the fifth year of Tongzhi)

【Note】 ① There is constant: unchanged.There are rules here. 【Translation】 About Brother Cheng: The price of grain in the village is getting lower and lower, and the grass seedlings and pea seedlings are flourishing, and the atmosphere is still peaceful, which is very gratifying!The enemy withdrew from the territory of Cao and Hubei since the end of March, and fortunately protected the counties and counties east of the canal in Shandong, but they still ravaged the prefectures of Cao, Song, Xu, Si, Feng, and Huai. .It wasn't until the end of May that Zhang and Niu fled to the west of Zhoujiakou.Ren and Lai had their own shares before fleeing to the west of Taihe.During the months of summer and autumn, Shandong and Jiangsu can sit back and relax.Henan, Anhui, and Hubei are bound to be in a hurry.

I plan to go to Suqian and Taoyuan in a few days to inspect the dike wall.From the waterway to Linhuai to Zhoujiakou, taking a small boat in the midst of summer is an old errand.Because most of the land routes are flooded, and it is not easy to hire a car, I had to use the water route instead. I am getting closer and closer to old age, and I can barely support it for a year or so.I think our brothers are not in good health, and our nephew and nephew are especially weak in the next life. We must find ways to maintain our health on weekdays, and we should not just look at the doctor and take medicine indiscriminately.

There are about five aspects of health maintenance: one is to have a regular sleep and diet; the other is to control anger; the third is to abstinence;Restraining anger is what I call health preservation based on less anger.There are two things, sleep and food, and foot washing. Xinggang has been walking for forty years, and I have also learned it for seven years. I have tried 3,000 steps after meals recently, and it has never stopped since then.My younger brother worked too hard in the past and was nearly fifty years old. He hoped to implement these five aspects and advised Yuandi and his nephews to implement them.

Brother Yuan and I were ennobled and opened a mansion at the same time as a governor. The family court can be said to have flourished for a while, but it cannot be relied on for a long time.I remember that in the first month of the Sihai Festival, the Duke of Kengang trained the Duke of Zhuting and said: "Although Kuanyi is a Hanlin, my family still relies on farming for a living, and I can't rely on him for food."I hope that my younger brother will work in the field, supplemented by the eight characters of book, vegetable, fish, pig, early, sweep, test, and treasure. No matter how prosperous the family is, it must not change the scale of Daoguang's early years.

Where the country's morals can last for a long time, it does not rely on temporary official titles, but on long-term family rules.Don't rely on the sudden prosperity of one or two people, but rely on the maintenance of the public.If I am blessed, I will work together with my younger brother to maintain it when I am dismissed from office and go home.Old relatives, old relatives, and poor clansmen should not neglect others. Treating the poor is the same as treating the rich. When you are prosperous, you have to think about the decline. Then you will naturally have a deep and solid foundation. (the fifth day of June in the fifth year of Tongzhi)