Apr 06

Peony – King of Flowers

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There are many fair tales about peony. It is related to Fairy Mother Goddess and a Chinese emperor named Wu Zetian. I thought that the later one was more attractive. One day, the only female emperor in Chinese history Wu Zetian enjoyed the beautiful snow scene in winter. She came up with an idea suddenly. She thought that if all kinds of followers bloomed, it would be more beautiful. So, as the Son of Heaven, she issued an imperial edict that every kind of flower should bloom tomorrow. The next day, all flowers bloomed except peony. Wu Zetian was angry about peony and demoted it to Luo Yang. However, in Luo Yang, peony bloomed better. In a word, peony is a unyielding flower.

The formal name of peony is Paeonia suffruticosa. Peony begins to bloom from April to May each year. It is originally produced in the northwest of China. With big petals and gorgeous colors, it represents for wealthy and prosperity. Peony has a history of more than 1500 years and there are about 180 varieties. Peony covers a lot of colors like red, white, pink violet, black, green and blue and so on. The height of peony is between one to three meters and the diameter of its petal is between ten to thirty centimeters.

Peony likes cool temperature and can not bear extremes of cold and heat. It can tolerate drought but is afraid of water. So plant peony in higher places just in case of water log.

Peony’s word is lead. According to the ancient European superstition, peony shines in the evening, which watches and takes care of sheep and prevents corps from damage. So peony is the patron saint of agriculture and poultry. Therefore, peony means lead.

Peony is not only a valuable ornamental plant but also have high economic value. Flowers can be made to wine, and the root can be used as medicine. It can heal diarrhea, scatter congestion and has the effect of antiemetic. So peony has broad pharmacological effects, such as analgesic, anti-diuretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-convulsant, vasodilatic, and etc.

Peony is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine. White peony was used for hypertension, chest pain, muscle cramping and spasms, and fever. It was an important remedy for female reproductive conditions ranging from dysmenorrhea to irregular menses. Red peony was used for bleeding or lack of blood movement, depending on how it was prepared. Moutan was used for problems characterized by bleeding, such as nosebleeds, bleeding wounds, or menorrhagia.

Apr 01

Travel Fight Saving

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Travel is a difficult subject, the same scenic spot, different method can save a lot of cost. According to the friends travel experiences, below I enumerate some of the suggestions for reference.
Using time difference
If you don’t want to spend much money, but travel well, first you should make good use of time to save. One is to substitute off-season for peak period. Generally speaking, traveling during the off-season not only can take car comfortably, but also some hotels in accommodation is favorable, they can give you a discount. On the issue of food in the hotel, there are also different. Therefore, the travel expenditures during the off-season are at least 30% less than in peak period. Second is to elaborate on travel plans fun place and time, the date as far as possible, because the tourist area is more than one day the cost of one day.
Skills of choosing hotel
The quality of hotel will influence the tourism, which also will affect expenditures. So how to live well and cheaply? At first before traveling to inquire about the place, whether to have acquaintance or can stay of enterprises and institutions and the local offices. If there is preferred these conditions, you can choose relatively good hostel and office, because most of the enterprises and institutions hostel and offices enjoy the welfare. Excluding that situation, you should avoid to check-in at the hotel which is near the railway station, you’d better choose some hotels where the traffic is convenient, because these hotels on price are much cheaper than the hotel beside railway station, bus station , and these areas of the hotels also can discount. Now the city taxi develops quickly, it doesn’t matter to leave far.
Be good at playing
To go traveling, playing is the major purpose, so it is necessary to save money on playing, However, how to save money? At first, you should inspect the tourist scenic spot where you will visit. Some unique places must go. In view of these places to go, some scenic spots will repeat the landscape construction, which you needn’t to go, because these spots that you can see everywhere. Secondly, in tourism, you should take some time to look around street, scenic spots and city customs, this does not need to spend money to buy tickets, but such a play, which can play a good mood, certainly, it also can grow knowledge.
In sum, we should learn some good ways of saving in traveling, so that we can help us to save money, don’t you think so?

Apr 01

Tourism and Saving Money

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In tourism, as long as you make a good plan carefully, you can achieve the purpose of saving money without influencing the tourism quality. Today I will tell you some tips about the tourism and saving money.

Firstly, you should avoid the peak traveling season. Generally speaking, every attraction has the off-season and you can choose this period to travel if you have free time. On the one hand, in this season, it is easier to get a ride and has fewer visitors. On the other hand, some hotels have a discount in the accommodation, and sometimes it may high up to 50%. Besides, the prices in the eating aspects also have different discounts. Thus if you are traveling in the off-season, you will spend less than 30% than the peak traveling season.

Secondly, you should make a detailed return plan in time and book the return trips’ ticket in advance. Now some airlines have made some promotions to win costumers who can book the ticket in advance, and the customers can enjoy preferential provisions. Moreover, if the longer the scheduled period is, the greater the discount is given. At the same time, the visitors also can be received a discount to buy round-trip ticket in the train and bus tickets. There are some Special preferential policies in the booking tickets, for example, the earlier you book the tickets, the cheaper the tickets are, and the temporary costs of the various procedures also can be removed from the tickets’ price.

Thirdly, in the process of the traveling, you should make a full plan which can make good use of the limited time to go some the most famous and funniest place to play. You should make the plan as full as possible, because you will pay more money for one more day in the tourist area.

In addition, In order to achieve both enjoying yourself and saving money in the attractions, you should have a general understanding of the attractions where you will go. In this way, you can make up a list about the places where you should go and where are not worth going. In tourism, you also should take a little time to go around the scenic spots and take a look at the local customs, because this wandering would not cost any money, but can know something what cannot be got from the attractions.

The above ways are very worthwhile for the visitors. You can choose some precious suggestions according to your own conditions.

Mar 31

A General Browse of Related foods

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Knowing general losing weight principles, let’s figure out those foods that are conductive to losing weight so that we can carry through reasonable losing weight recipes.

1. Corn: Corn is rich in calcium, selenium, lecithin, vitamin E and so on which can reduce the content of cholesterin.

2. Oat: Oat is rich in sub-oleic acid that can reduce the cholesterin and glycerin ester contained in blood serum to prevent artery cirrhosis.

3. Kelp: Kelp is rich in vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and various kinds of fibrins and minerals as well as ample bezoar acid and alqin which can resist the absoption of cholesterin and discharge wastes and water accumulated in the body.

4. Onion: the prostate A contained in onion has a function of stretching blood vessels and reduce blood pressure. In addition, onion is rich in allyl vulacanization complexes that can prevent artery cirrhosis.

5. Sesame: the linseed oleic acid contained in sesame can eliminate cholesterin attached on the inside blood vessels to advance metabolism. Almost all black foods can nourish our kidney which is a solid foundation of our normal sexual organs. Among black foods, sesame is one of the best.

6. Banana: Though banana is rich in calorie, it contains only a little fat. In addition, banana is rich in kalium so that it can not only make you feel full but also reduce the accumulation of fat in the upper body. Banana is one of the ideal foods of losing weight.

7. Apple.

Apple is abundant in kalium so that it can eliminate excessive salt in human body. Eat 2 to 3 apples per day can effectively maintain normal blood pressure. The saying “One apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not only a story but also has solid scientific foundations.

8. Garlic: There are abundant objects containing sulfide which can reduce the content of cholesterin in blood and prevent the generation of thrombus. In addition, eat garlic usually is constructive to increase dense protein to protect the heart artery.

9. Milk: Abundant calcium contained in milk can restrain the vitality of cholesterin composing elements to reduce the absorption of cholesterin.

10. Peanut: Peanut is rich in vitamin B2 so that it has an extraordinary effect of eliminating fat of the lower body. Meanwhile, it also has an effect of enlarging your breasts.

11. Tomato: Tomato can effectively eliminate leg fatigue and accordingly eliminate leg edema to make you become slim.

Of course there are also a lot of other kinds of foods that are conductive to losing weight. I will introduce them in detailed recipes.

What’s more, some people know very clearly what foods and fruits that can help them to lose weight. However, incorrect or inappropriate matching and eating of foods may achieve accurately opposite effects. In addition, some fruits can only bring into their effects of losing weight should be eaten one hour or more after meal. Do you know this? Let’s take a detailed look at these tips and recipes of losing weight.

Mar 31

Principles of Losing Weight

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As more and more people attach importance on their health, losing weight has been written on people’s primary schedule list. Fat can result in a variety of diseases. Almost all people are pursuing tips and secrets of losing weight. And there are indeed many effective ways. Some people say that the most effective way of losing weight is control your diet. However, not many people can resist the lure of delicious foods. The following are several effective recipes that enable you to enjoy delicious foods and meanwhile to lose weight.

First of all, let’s figure out the three principles of losing weight:

1. Diet is indispensable.

2. Rejecting meat is unnecessary.

3. Reduce the intake of sweet foods and fruits with high sugar content.

The nutrition principles of recipes to lose weight:

1. Limit the total energy: Gradually reduce the intake of energies and meanwhile accompany it by appropriate physical exercises. Adult mild fat people had better intake 125~250 kcal of energy so that they can lose 0.5~1.0 kg of body weight every month. Adult obese people had better intake 552~1104 kcal of energy so that they can lose appropriate 0.5~1.0 kg of body weight every month.

2. Appropriate amount of protein.

At the same time of adopting low-calorie diet, you should ensure adequate protein supply which accounts for 20% ~ 30% of the total energy supply. You should pay attention that excessive intake of protein can cause liver and kidney disorders.

3. Control fat intake.

Excessive intake of fat can result in ketosis. At the meanwhile of low-calorie diet, you should limit the fat supply especially the supply of animal fat. Fat is prone to accumulate in subcutaneous tissues and surroundings of organs and then accordingly result in fatty liver and a number of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The fat intake should be controlled within 25%~30% of the total energy intake for fat people.

4. Limit sugar intake.

The sugar supply should be within 40% ~ 55% of the total energy intake. You should avoid foods rich in single glucide such as sucrose, maltose and so on. The intake of dietary fiber is not restricted.

5. Limit the intake of salt and purine.

Salt can result in thirsty and enhance people’s appetite. Excessive intake of salt is not conductive to the treatment of obesity. 3~6g per day is appropriate. Purine can stimulate people’s appetite and increase the burdens of liver and kidney. Therefore, you should also limit the consumption of animal organs such as liver and heart.

6. Cook methods. Steaming, boiling, and roasting should be the mainstream cook methods.

Others: At the same time of ensuring standard diet, intake more vegetables can supply enough fiber and nutrients but less calorie for you.

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