TCM health preservation (medicated diet Bazhen decoction)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: health preservation of traditional Chinese Medicine

Applicant: Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Item No.: 970

Project No.: IX - 10

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Taiyuan Fushan Cultural Industry Development Park

Introduction to traditional Chinese medicine health preservation (medicated diet Bazhen decoction)

Applicant: Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the life and health of human body is the process of adaptation between human and nature, and the change process of life, growth, growth, aging and development of human body. Disease is the result of the imbalance of internal and external environment. There are three causes: the first is the external cause, which refers to the impact of natural climate change; the second is the internal cause, which refers to the disorder of the body's self-regulation; the third is the non internal and external cause, which refers to the invasion of accidental injury, and the internal cause plays a major role. Therefore, traditional Chinese medicine attaches great importance to the active maintenance, regulation and prevention of the human body, which is also called "taking care of life". The thought of keeping in good health should run through one's life, but it is particularly important to keep in good health before one gets sick.

The content of TCM health preservation includes living environment, daily life, mental health and prevention before disease. According to Huangdi Neijing, "people in ancient times, who knew the Tao, learned from Yin and Yang, and were in harmony with the number of skills. They ate and drank regularly, lived in a regular way, and did not work rashly. Therefore, they were able to form with the spirit and end their life.". It means that life should conform to the way of heaven and earth, conform to the changes of climate; diet should be moderate, food and drink should be raised; life should be regular, sex should not be excessive; work and rest should be combined to maintain physical and mental health. In the life practice of later generations, people have created a lot of methods and experience of health care, diet conditioning and "preventive treatment of disease", constantly enriching the content of TCM health care.

Fushan herbal Bazhen soup, commonly known as "brain", is a kind of halal food with good effect on health preservation. Since it was founded by Fu Shan, a famous doctor in Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty, it has been passed on in Taiyuan for more than 370 years. It is a unique local famous food in Taiyuan.

Bazhen soup is a kind of soup paste food made from mutton, grain and eight kinds of Chinese herbal medicine through fine and complex process. It can be used to relax tendons and activate blood circulation, nourish heart and kidney, replenish blood and generate Yang, invigorate spleen and appetizer, replenish qi and regulate yuan, and nourish deficiency.

Bazhen soup is characterized by exquisite selection of raw materials and complex process. It is required to select the first-class tender and fat mutton as raw materials, process the meat through cleaning, meat cleaning, stewing with auxiliary materials, leaving the pot for air storage, and skim the mutton soup and mutton oil for standby. Meanwhile, all kinds of auxiliary materials should be prepared strictly according to the customized method, such as simmering, salting, boiling or steaming. When making Bazhen soup, the above-mentioned materials are boiled in accordance with the established procedure and proportion, and mixed with yellow rice wine.

In recent years, the inheritance and development of Bazhen soup has encountered difficulties. Fu Du, the master of traditional arts and crafts, is over the age of old and has no successors. This local famous food is in danger of being lost.