We walked on the slightly narrow streets of Rome, and saw all kinds of endless streams of Romans, their faces were beaming and leisurely, but they felt that they had a strange smell of all kinds of miscellaneous on their faces, so that we couldn't help but stay away, could it be that these medieval Romans didn't like to take a bath very much?

Xiao Fei sprinkled and said with relish: "Indeed, these Eastern Romans are like barbarians compared to us in the Great Song Dynasty, although their hardware is really good like buildings, magnificent, and geometric use is free, but when it comes to software, it is far worse than us, 108,000 miles away." You know, in the Middle Ages, Europeans almost never bathed. Most of them rarely take a bath in their lives, or they don't take a bath at all. Of course, they also have a short period of bathing, that is, the Western Roman era, which I will tell you later, so in comparison, our Great Song people are lovely and clean, and their bodies are fragrant and spotless. I am not talking nonsense, imaginary, empty words, but I have evidence, the Italian merchant Marco Polo, who visited Hangzhou in the thirteenth century, was surprised to find that there were 3,000 bathhouses in the city, and the water was supplied by the springs, and the people often bathed in them, sometimes enough for more than 100 people to bathe together. There are many streets surrounding the market, and some of them have many cold baths, and there are male and female servants who assist the male and female bathers in bathing. When he was young, he was accustomed to cold baths regardless of the season, and according to the clouds, this matter is extremely suitable for hygiene. There are also hot baths in the baths for foreigners who are not accustomed to cold bathing. The natives do not eat after getting up early every day without bathing. Feng Chengjun translated "The Travels of Marco Polo". But for the Song Dynasty people, who love cleanliness and know how to enjoy, bathing is part of daily life. Not only Hangzhou has many bathrooms, but also other cities, Bianjing has a street and alley, famous for its many public baths, and is called Yutang Lane by the citizens. The Song people also called the bathhouse a perfume shop. If you walk in the city of the Song Dynasty and see the place where the pot is hung at the door, it is a perfume shop. Hanging pot is the symbol of the public bathhouse of the Song Dynasty, Wu Zeng's "Can Change the Zhai Manlu" volume 1 wrote - where the bath, must hang the pot in the door. These bathhouses are usually open for business early in the morning, and "Yi Jian Zhi Bu" records - at the beginning of Xuanhe, there were officials who participated in the election, and the officials were presented, and it was too early, the pedestrians on the road were still Xi, the provincial door was not opened, and the aunt went to the tea house to rest, and the bathhouse was also in the house. It can also be seen from here that the public baths in Bianliang usually have a teahouse in front for people to drink tea and rest, and a bathhouse for people to bathe in the back. The cost of taking a bath in the bathhouse is not high, about 10 yuan per person. And our bathhouse in the Song Dynasty also has a back-rubbing service, Mr. Su Shi, who loves to take a bath, once composed a song "Like a Dream Order", wittily wrote - how can the scale ever suffer, look at the two nothing. Sending a message to rub people's backs, and waving elbows all day long. Light hands, light hands, lay people are innocent. However, Mr. Dongpo's colleague Wang Anshi is more sloppy, and his two friends can't stand it because they meet: every two months, they wash the Dingli Academy. In the Song Dynasty, scholars who did not bathe for many years were to be made fun of, and there was a Dou Yuanbin in the Renzong Dynasty, who was born in a famous family and had a very good talent, but because he did not often take a bath, his colleagues called him Dou Stinky. Moreover, there have also been soaps for individuals in the market of our Great Song Dynasty, which are convenient and hygienic, mainly made of soap horns, spices, and medicinal materials, called soap balls. Yang Shiying's "Ren Zhai Zhizhi" of the Song Dynasty recorded a soap recipe - Angelica dahurica, white aconite, white zombie silkworm, white root, pig tooth soaphorn, white tribulus terrestris, white cucumber, grass black, hawthorn, sweet pine, white cloves, rhubarb, herbs, crane white, almonds, soybean flour one tael each, pig fat (to remove the membrane) three taels, light powder, honey monk, camphor half a tael each, children's tea three coins, soap to the inside and outside of the skin and tendons, as long as the meat is a teacup. First, mash the soapy meat, clean it with chicken, and dry it to remove the smell. The medicine is the end, and the soap, pork fat, chicken clear and pill are used. "It seems that the civilization of our dynasty is still very splendid, absolutely at the leading level in the world, of course, the people of the Western Roman period have a high ideological consciousness, very fond of bathing, wherever they go, they will take the baths, the remains of the Roman baths are all over the Roman world.

Therefore, some call them the Romans who soaked in the bathroom. A typical example is the Baths of Caricala, which we will visit later, a public bath in ancient Rome, which was used for about 300 years until the Goths invaded and destroyed the waterways in 537.

According to historical records, the floor and baths here are all composed of colored marble and glass mosaics, which can be imagined in the glory days.

In ancient times, no people loved bathing more than the Romans. For bathing, the Roman Empire spent a great deal of effort to build a breathtaking aqueduct that brought 1.13 million tons of clean water into the city every day, a large part of which was to supply the city's large and small baths.

In modern times, it costs a lot to go to a good bath. But in Rome, the cost of bathing is simply negligible.

At that time, bathing in the baths was a privilege for the inhabitants of Rome, not only free, but also regardless of status, whether it was dignitaries, knights, or commoners, they could take off their coats and enjoy the solace brought by hot water.

The baths are nearly rectangular in plan and are arranged symmetrically. The central hall is a rectangular plan with three cross arches connected horizontally, and the hot bath is a dome rotunda connected to the central warm bath by an oval aisle and colonnade.

Built by Emperor Caracalla around 200 AD, these baths were built in 212 AD and completed in 216 AD, and are located on the southern edge of the center of Rome, with an area of 412×383 meters, the size of a small town, and the size of a modern standard swimming pool, all the Romanesque baths are based on them.

They are also one of the largest baths in the world, with a capacity of 1,600 people. Beneath the huge dome is a swimming pool, sauna and plunge pool, surrounded by exotic plants, intricate carvings and intricate mosaics.

The tepidarium is the largest of all bathrooms, measuring 170 feet long and with a vault height of 125 feet.

The baths were heated by a fire ondol heating system, a unique Roman invention that used hot water to heat the floor.

In addition to bathrooms of varying temperatures and purposes, there is also a library, a gymnasium, a garden and a meeting room, all decorated with beautiful murals.

The baths were an important part of the social life of the Romans, frequented by both beggars and emperors.

Covering an area of 160,000 square meters, the bathhouse is no less than a modern large-scale leisure center with a library, an arena, a promenade, and a gym in addition to the 30,000-square-meter bathhouse.

The Grand Baths of Caracalla are the ultimate in luxury. The windows on all sides are wide and transparent to ensure that sunlight can shine in at all times of the day.

The floors and walls of the baths are paved with precious colored marble from different regions of the Roman Empire, which is decorated with beautiful patterns, colors and paintings.

Above each turn in the baths, a statue stands. Most of the public baths in Rome are divided into hot air baths, hot water baths, warm air baths, warm water baths, cold air baths, and cold water baths, and the pools are usually located in warm to cold water areas.

The open-air bath, the warm bath, the hot bath and the passage hall between them constitute the central axis of symmetry of the main building, and other spaces such as the entrance, foyer, changing room, hot tub cubicle, warm bath cubicle, massage room, juvenile room, colonnade and other large and small spaces are symmetrically arranged on both sides of this axis.

The interior of the main building is veneered with marble. The bath building is one of the most complex types of architecture in Roman architecture in terms of function and space, and its internal space is organized in a simple and varied manner, creating an artistic approach to the sequence of internal spaces, with three halls connected in series on an axis and ending with a centralized space.

The changing rooms on both sides form a horizontal axis and a secondary longitudinal axis, and the main vertical and horizontal axes intersect in the largest hot bath hall, making it the most open space.

The vertical and horizontal, size, height, opening and closing of the space on the axis change alternately, and different vaults and domes cause changes in the shape of the space, and the space flows through, rich and changeable.

This structural change has revolutionized the building's spatial table. The appearance of the bathhouse architecture reflects the level of design and technology of the time.

The Pantheon, the Aqueduct, the Appian Way, the Baths of Caracalla, Trajan's Market, the Colosseum and the Colosseum, among the seven wonders of ancient Rome.

The remaining mosaic floors, the 30-meter-diameter bath, and the 30-meter-high walls suggest that it was a time when it was a large scale and a large number of distinguished guests.