China is an ancient civilization with a long history, of which "wine culture" and "tea culture" can be said to be the most representative, but today's small editor to say that the protagonist is not "wine culture" and "tea culture", let's take a look at the bath culture that also has a deep foundation.
The history of bath culture can be said to be very long, as early as 3,000 years ago there are documents recorded, for example, in the "Zhou Li" recorded that "there is a bathroom in the king's bed", which is enough to show that the bath culture has undergone a long history of development.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, people would enjoy bathing and develop bathing tools. Xiao Gang, emperor of the Southern Dynasty Liang Jianwen, once wrote three volumes of the Bathing Sutra, which is the earliest monograph on bathing found in China so far, and there is also a detailed description of the bathing tools of the ancients.
As we all know, Huaqing Pond was a place where emperors specially bathed during the Tang Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty built "Lishan Soup", on the basis of which Tang Taizong expanded the hot spring bath and began to receive attention from the aristocratic class. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty already had full-time service personnel who wiped the backs of valets, and they were highly appreciated by the aristocratic class. Su Dongpo once praised their labor in a poem "Like a Dream Order": sending words to wipe people's backs, working day and night to wave their elbows. In the Song Dynasty, public baths became popular and are still used today.
Bathing culture has a long history in China, so what are the characteristics of foreign bathing culture? The ancient Egyptians were very reluctant to expose their bodies in the open air. As a result, the ancient Egyptian nobles would let many servants line up with water, pour a basin of water on themselves, and use a kind of toiletries called perfume to remove the odor from the body.
The bathing culture of ancient Greece also has a long history. Ancient Greece pioneered the invention of water diversion technology and public baths. Water diversion technology is to introduce mountain springs from the mountains into the city through water supply pipes for the use of public baths in the city. The ancient Greeks not only invented the bath, but also associated the bath with the spiritual world, in their concept, bathing has a very important influence on war and can even control the win or loss, and after understanding the history of ancient Greece, you will find that they will set up baths in military camps.
With the progress of society, the development of the times, people's requirements for bathing forms are also more and more, in order to meet people's needs now bathing places have a wealth of bathing projects, such as hot spring baths, sunbathing, clear water baths, air baths, sand baths, petal baths, etc., the choice is more diverse, so that people in the bath more relaxed and pleasant, bathing benefits or very much everyone may wish to take time to meet family or friends and relatives to experience the bathing bar.