If we want to talk about bathing, we must first understand what the ancients meant to bathe, and what is the difference between bathing and what is usually said today? Bath, sprinkle body also. I wash it and sprinkle my feet too. Take a bath and sprinkle your hands too.

In modern language, bathing refers to washing one's hair and body, and bathing refers to washing one's feet and washing one's hands. For example, in the pre-Qin era, a man serving a woman to bathe was just an ordinary waiter's job, but in modern times, if you bathe a girl, you are a hooligan.

The ancients paid great attention to the etiquette of bathing, from the kings and doctors to the common people. The bathhouse in the pre-Qin era was called "湢". It is said to have been created by the ancient Gaoxin clan. Princes and scholars must first bathe and purify their bodies and abstain from eating meat to express their inner purity and piety, which is called the precept, also known as fasting. Of course, the prohibition of meat here does not mean that you can't eat meat, but that you can't eat foods with pungent odors such as onions, ginger, garlic, etc. In terms of etiquette, the best one is of course Sage Kong. Historical records record that "Confucius bathed in the court", and "The Book of Rites: Confucianism" said: "Confucianism has a bath body and bathes in virtue". "Confucianism" in the oracle bone inscription from "rain", from "big", is said to be this truth.

In the state system, the princes met the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven gave the feudal town for bathing within Wangji, which was called "Tang Muyi". "Etiquette and Monarchy" cloud: "Uncle Fang is the Son of Heaven, and he is in the county of the Son of Heaven. "The princes should wash their hair and bathe in the feudal towns that are dedicated to bathing before they can go to the court to see the Son of Heaven and bathe and cleanse themselves to show respect for the Son of Heaven.

As for the common people, naturally they don't pay so much attention to it, and if they want to wash, they can only go to the river. There are also a few specific carnival days. For example, the "Shangsi Festival" on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. On this day, the ancients in order to purify and drive away disasters, summon spirits and relieve the gods, pray for children, and will go to the river to bathe in groups, from a medical point of view, taking a bath in March in the spring is also good for the human body.

In addition, the fifth day of May is also a good day for medicinal baths. The ancients called bathing in warm water "soup". The so-called May Orchid Soup Mu is a very important ceremony. Orchid, the name of vanilla, also known as Shang, includes orchid grass (also often referred to as "orchid") and zeelan (also known as "orchid" and "water fragrance"), not referring to today's orchids. "Shennong Agricultural Materia Medica" has a cloud "orchid into medicine, April and May picking, dispel unknown, so Qi (Zhai) to do things great gods". Bathing in orchid soup on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival in May can naturally remove the ominous and prevent yourself from illness. The bath of Yulan was extended to the Tang and Song dynasties, and the bed was a grand event, and the Dragon Boat Festival was the Yulan Festival. "Dream Lianglu" said: "Five days are heavy and five festivals, and it is also called the Yulan Festival." Dongpo Jushi "Huanxi Sha" words: light sweat slightly transparent blue. Ming Dynasty Dragon Boat Festival bath Fanglan. The fragrance is full of clear rivers. The colored thread is lightly wrapped around the red jade arm, and the small charm hangs obliquely on the green cloud mustache. The beauties have met for a thousand years. There is also a Southern Song Dynasty lyricist Wu Wenying's "Bath Orchid Fragrance Huai'an Chongwu": the silk is tied to the wrist, the hairpin is hung with a skillful seal, and the jade hidden cyan yarn sleeps. The silver bottle is exposed, the cloud window is colorful, and the young man in the past is still in the covenant. For the time when I wrote a pomegranate skirt, sad red silk calyx. The dream of time is getting old.

Of course, bathing in orchid soup is not all as beautiful as the two Song poets said. Back to the pre-Qin period. "Han Feizi Neichuxia" records that "Yan Li Ji is far away, his wife is privately connected to Shi, Ji suddenly arrives, Shi is in the middle, and his wife suffers." His housewife said: 'Let the son untie his hair naked and go straight out, and my family will not see it.' So the son did what he planned and hurried out the door. Ji said: 'Who is it?' and the family said: 'There is nothing.' Ji said, 'What the hell do I see?' and the woman said, 'Yes.'" "What can I do about it"? He said: "Take the arrows of the five animals and bathe them." Ji said: 'No'. It is a bath and an arrow. One is called "bathing in orchid soup".

God is pitiful, Li Ji became a living king, and he thought he was a ghost and wanted to take a bath to ward off evil spirits. It can be seen that women have been vicious since ancient times. Therefore, "orchid soup" will also refer to the bath water used by women, especially beautiful women.

At that time, there was a murder case in the bath in the Qi Kingdom, and the victim was still the king of Qi at that time. "Zuo Biography" records: "In the summer, the Duke of May (Duke Qi Yi, a famous merchant, the son of Duke Huan) swam in Shenchi." After that, two of his men were killed in the bamboo forest by the pool. This historical story can be said to be a synthesis of various dramatic elements, bamboo forest fights, grievances, conspiracies and betrayals, etc., among which a random one can feed the three directors Zhang Feng and Chen for a lifetime.

The Greek city-states of the same period as the pre-Qin period also had the custom of bathing, and the emphasis was on the fact that if a guest came from afar, the host would let his wife and daughter serve the distinguished guests to bathe, take a rose bath, and smear it with olive oil. Moreover, according to local customs, the saint is mostly next to the temple on the first night, and when the guest arrives, she gives the woman a gold coin and speaks words such as worship in her ear, and then she can bring her virgin, bathe in the soup, and then make a sacrifice of love. (Little Bear strongly demanded the invention of a time machine, and the destination, except for Sparta, which was born with a cold bath, any city-state in Athens would even be willing to go).

After talking briefly about the pre-Qin, let's talk about the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Qin has the famous Afang Palace, Lishan Soup. How luxurious, you can refer to Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu" in the Tang Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, "Han Law: The officials took a bath on the fifth day, and said that they would rest to wash and bathe." "Tongjian" Hu Note: Han system, Chinese and Korean officials on the fifth day of the rest of the house. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty gave the officials a day off every five days, let them go home to bathe and wash their clothes, and fixed it as a statutory holiday, which was the first holiday in history to be formulated on the grounds of bathing, which shows that the Han Dynasty attached great importance to grooming. In the Tang Dynasty, this method was changed to a rest and bathing for officials every ten days, which was called: "Xiu Huan". It is commonly used in the first half of each month, the middle of the month, and the second half of the month as the upper han, the middle of the Han, the next Han, the Han is the variant of the Huan, the original meaning is to wash, probably because of the ten days of a Huan, the Huan has a kind of timing meaning, a Huan for ten days, so the Tang Dynasty system of ten days and a rest Mu has the name of Xiuhuan. In fact, according to research, most of the officials of the Han Dynasty worked in the museum office, and they usually did not go home, and it was normal to take a bath once every five days. In the Tang Dynasty, officials usually lived a day commuting to and from work and were able to go home, so they would change the weekend rest to three regular holidays per month.

The most famous bath voyeur incident in the Han Dynasty can be found in the following Han Hao's "Yongyu"

Then the whole fish and rhino are gathered around the green hairpin, and the undressing is cold first. Teaching the blue candle to be ashamed, and the self-test fragrant soup is more afraid of the depth.

At first, it seems that it is difficult to suppress the washing of flowers, and in the end, I am worried that Woxue is incompetent. How do you know that outside the curtain of the maid, there are a few loaves of gold left for the king?

This little poem tells the story of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty and Zhao Hede. There is nothing in the story itself, this oriental, subtle, fresh, and timeless love story is many times higher than the pure SEX of the Western barbarians. Therefore, the sage Yun "The way of the husband AV, the West is not as good as Dongying, and the East Ying is not as good as Xiangjiang, and the doctors of Xiangjiang are the only ones who can hold this way, only Wang Jing has one ear. It's a pity that Wang Jun has not been out of the film for a long time, oh!, Si people don't come out, what is it like the world"?

Without further ado, let's take a look at the Western Rome of the time. The Romans loved bathing, which was notoriously not much to unfold. However, there is also a belief that the fall of Rome and the decline in the population due to bathing were a major reason. The principle is that too much hot bathing can lead to impaired testicular function (because the testicular temperature is usually lower than the normal body temperature of the human body), which in turn leads to a decrease in sperm motility and affects the birth of the next generation. To put it simply, hard-boiled eggs can't hatch chicks. (This popular science text, Xiao Xiong was specially written to several moderators to read, and you must remember to call the health doctor in the soup in the future, otherwise if you are cooked, others will not be able to save you).

Next, it is time to say: "Most of the Southern Dynasties are all wide, and the two Jin and Northern Dynasties of the Eastern Jin Dynasty are the most merry". In this era, there are many maverick alternative people. There is Bian Bin, who "takes a bath and brushes carelessly, and Huanmu loses time", and He Tongzhi, who bathes all day long and is known as "water prostitution". According to the research of my friend Oshisharon, after the so-called Huan Wen bath, Duoxi wore old clothes because people took Wushisan a lot during the Wei and Jin dynasties, which caused sensitive skin. Speaking of which, it is the drug that makes the human capillaries congested and dilated, accompanied by hallucinogenic symptoms, so that people have the illusion that their skin seems to have a sense of wandering, which is what Taoist friends usually call ---ants on the tree".

It is worth mentioning that Buddhism gradually flourished at this time, and one of the Buddhist festivals is called the "Buddha Bathing Festival", and it is said that the eighth day of the fourth lunar month is the birthday of the Buddha. Therefore, Buddhists pay attention to bathing the Buddha with fragrant soup on this day, fasting monks, and purifying the heart and removing the dull karma. The local Taoism saw that the situation was not good, and the foreign monks wanted to seize power. Therefore, the Taoist health preservation technique was proposed, and bathing was also advocated, and it was the best dry cleaning guide, similar to modern massage. Full massage from eyes, mouth, nose to limbs and torso. Moreover, the Buddhas advocated April 81, and the Taoists simply proposed that there are auspicious days for dry cleaning in the 12 months of the year. For example, on the tenth day of the first lunar month, bathing makes people's teeth strong. And then there's February, March, April, and so on. The most effective thing is the last December 13th, bathing, and getting the jade maid's room. Little Bear has tried, tried a hundred times. In the cold winter, bathing in the middle of the night, you must have a cold, and you must go to the hospital, and then you dare not say whether there is a Nine Heavens Xuannu Nether support, but there must be a nurse sister to give you injections and send medicine. Whether it's cute in fashion, mature in dress, or night in the sick room, it all depends on everyone's creation.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, which closely followed the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the official family's favorite bath was the hot spring bath, the most famous of which was Huaqing Pool. After the repeated expansion of the Tang Dynasty in the past dynasties, to the Xuanzong Kaiyuan Tianbao period, Huaqing Pond is divided into nine dragon soup and hibiscus pool, nine dragon soup is exclusively for the emperor's imperial bath, and the hibiscus pool is exclusively for Yang Guifei to bathe, and later it is also called "Guifei Pool", and set up a hot spring supervisor to take charge of the official prohibition of the soup pool. It deserves to be the first soup in the world. How did Tang Xuanzong and Yang Yuhuan play in the water? For details, please refer to Bai Letian's "Song of Long Hatred". Not much more. Let's talk about Europe at that time. In Europe under Christian control, everything is in accordance with the teachings of Christianity, in the Chinese language, "keep the principles of heaven and eliminate the desires of men". Priests and nuns basically do not bathe, and the more they do not wash, the easier it is to become saints. It wasn't until the Crusaders returned from the Byzantine crusade that the bathing culture of ancient Rome once again became popular in Europe, but most of the public baths at that time were in the red light district.

The words are divided into two ends, and once the five dynasties of the remnant Tang Dynasty passed, it was the Song Dynasty. With the development of the city and the prosperity of the commercial economy, public baths appeared in the city, which was called Minyu at that time. And the general house is equipped with a bathroom, bathing is more popular, even the guests come from afar, the host welcomes the guests to set up fragrant soup to bathe, and then set up a feast to entertain, the name is to wash the dust. The literati doctor is even more cool to bathe, which is recorded in the literati's notes. Su Shi liked to go to the public bath to bathe, and wrote two poems "Like a Dream Order" to describe his feelings of bathing.

One of the clouds:

How did the scale ever fall in love, and look closely at the both. Sending a message to rub people's backs, and waving elbows all day long. Light hands, light hands, lay people are innocent.

The second cloud:

Self-purification can purify the other, and I sweat and breathe. Message to bathing people, and a total of physical games. But wash, but wash, bow down to everything in the world.

Of course, there are those who like to wash, and there are those who don't like it, such as Wang Anshi, who is treacherous and loyal. It's not good to wash, and lice on his body are a big manifestation of his political show. If it weren't for the fact that this person had rebelled into the law of his ancestors, provoked decades of party disputes between the old and the new, and consumed the vitality of the Song Dynasty. How could there be a change in Jingkang later. Hundreds of years later, when Mongolia came, the Eastern civilization certainly fell, and the whole people had no intention of bathing, and the West was not much better, and the Mongols brought the Black Death, and the Westerners thought that the pores opened when bathing, which was easy to cause disease, so they began to ban bathing for the whole people. The entire civilized world of the East and the West is immersed in the smell of nomads. Speaking of Meng Yuan, the only thing worth mentioning is that Meng Ge, who was seriously injured under the Diaoyu City in Sichuan, finally died in Chongqing North Hot Spring (now Hot Spring Temple). Coincidentally, Comrade Houjin Nurhachi, who was hundreds of years later, also seemed to have been wounded by artillery and finally died in the hot spring recuperation holy land.

Mongolia is not long, the rise of the Ming Dynasty, with the further development of the city, the gradual growth of the citizen class, various service industries are also flourishing, the city is generally "mixed hall", it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang for the construction of Nanjing City hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and created. In the literal sense, it probably means that the people who enter the bath do not distinguish between high and low, and "mix" and wash it, no matter what kind of person, as long as they pay the money, they can enter the bath and take a bath. At that time, people were more particular about bathing than in the past, and the Ming people Tu Benjian once compared "bathing the body" with "appreciating antiques", "blaspheming incense" and "reciting clear words", which was regarded as a kind of spiritual enjoyment. Naturally, there are quite a few jokes.

There is a mixed joke in the "Selected Childish Laughter" of Mingren Yuzhang Drunken Yuezi Anthology:

The righteous officer was very angry, and he wore a gauze hat and boots, and tied himself naked with a belt, and said to the people, "Is this how I have come?" "

The bathhouse and bathroom industry was called a perfume shop from the Song Dynasty, and a pot was hung in front of the door as a symbol, and it was changed to a red lantern in the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Yangzhou baths were the most famous.