via "Dream of a Garden"
This is a small private documentary about the story of southerners scrubbing in Beijing.
Here's the thing. Not long ago, during the New Year's Day holiday, I was sent to the bath by Beijing's indigenous little B. Xiao X and Xiao Z are both natives of the south, who have been working in the north for several months, and found that the difference between the north and the south is huge, and it is not easy to become a new Beijinger.
Beijing native B: "Don't scrub the bath, let's say that you are drifting north!"
via "Trick the World JP"
01 In the end, what is a scrubbing bath
Most Southerners have a very one-sided impression of bathing.
Although in the Northern Song Dynasty, where Caoyun emerged, Yangzhou, as a transit station for Caoyun, is likely to be the birthplace of bathhouse culture, maintaining an inch of leisure and hygiene for the toiling Workers. But in addition, the overall climate in the south is humid and hot, and you can take a bath in all four seasons, so why bother to go to the bathhouse to rub it? Probably people think they're clean. Su Shi, a Native of Sichuan, once complained:
Limescale has been affected. Take a closer look at both.
Send words to the back of the people, and do your best to swing your elbows.
Light hands, light hands. The layman was originally unstainted.
via Northern Song Dynasty Zhang Zeduan "Qingming River Map"
This means that water and dirt would not have coexisted in the first place, and these two things are even absent from me. Big brother, it's really hard for you to wave your elbow all day. I just hope you can tap, tap again, I don't have any dirt on my body.
Regardless of the state of mind in which the poem reflects Su Shi's reuse after the Wutai poetry case, one thing is clear: people do not rub.
via Li Jiaqi live broadcast room
On the way to the bathing center, Xiao X asked Xiao Z: "Have you seen the news some time ago?" ”
Little Z: "What news?" ”
Little X: "Amazing! Southerners in the north scrub and rub until the alarm! If you look closely, it turns out that the calf has been rubbed and broken. ”
Little Z: "Cut... What, can the calves be rubbed? ”
At the entrance to the bathing center, Little X and Little Z were trembling.
Little B: "It's all here, what else can I do?" ”
via "Seven Days of Father and Daughter Change", after exchanging bodies, the blindfold must be scrubbed
02 Clothes, I really can't take them off
Small X and Small Z follow Small B into the bathing center. The two cabinets were on the other side, so Little X and Little Z briefly lost Little B's guidance. Standing in front of the cabinet, I glanced at each other, and no one moved. After writhing for a while, the two decided to go to the staff first to ask for the yukata that they would wear for a while.
Staff: "What clothes! Go naked, come up and wear again. ”
At that moment, Little X felt a little... Adam, dressed in a dress made of leaves, was in a mood of condemnation by God. Then Adam said to God, "I'm naked, I'm so scared!" God said, "What's wrong with being naked!" He immediately understood that Adam knew good and evil. Little X and Little Z also immediately understood that they had not lived in vain for more than twenty years and were saturated with social values.
via The Fall of Man by 提香
When we got back to the cupboard, Little B was already waiting for us naked. Little X and Little Z were ashamed, and the pattern gradually opened. How can a person be trapped in clothes for the rest of his life! So I took it off. Before launching, Little X asked, "Can I get my phone on?" ”
Little B said, "Take it." ”
Little X: "Great! ”
It can be said that clothes are like clothes, and mobile phones are like siblings. The theorist Marshall McLuhan said more than half a century ago: "The medium is an extension of the different organs of the human being." "At that time, there were still people arguing with him, and the examples he gave, what books, magazines, television, didn't they say that they could be put down? To this day, it is clear who the true prophets are. The mobile phone is the organ that we can't give up, the extension of people.
The book is an extension of the eye via Media is the Message
Truth is still truth in the bathing center.
03 Hard work, scrub the big sister
Little B explained to the big sister of the bath: "It's okay, normal rubbing." ”
In fact, this bathing center is quite modern. It differs from the large bathhouse in the 1999 film Bath, or the juxtaposition of rows of scrub pads in some baths. It has compartments! For shy southerners, it's entirely possible to enjoy the ravages on their own.
via "Bathing"
Little X and Little Z (not afraid of social death, only afraid of loneliness): "Can we be in one room?" ”
Unexpectedly, the most prosaic and happiest was actually a bath. Beijing bathing is not cheap, and Small X and Little Z can't even afford milk. But it feels good to give up all privacy, to give up all dignity, to give up all desire to move freely, to lie flat on a chopping board and trick me into a fish.
From Simon de Beauvoir to Laura Murvie, feminists have proven that it is difficult for women's bodies to be unchecked by the gaze of others. We are vases, we are possessions, we are the battlefield of gender... That's it! What desire, what sorrow, what subjectivity, bye-bye- bye-bye, I am only this body. After reading too many theories and having complex feelings about his body, Little X finally sighed: At a certain moment, I am a tetrahedron.
Big Sister Rubbing: "Come, turn over!" ”
The petite little Z next to him muttered, "I always feel that scrubbing should be charged by area..."
via "Nono Yu"
Finally, the eldest sister sprinkled a whole bag of salt on Little X, like cured meat. In the end, the eldest sister poured a whole bucket of water, and the car wash was no more than that. Occasionally improper personal, improper spinning small screws, when a clean and meaningless existence, so comfortable.
Big Sister, your job is very meaningful!
Thank you for your gentleness!
04 Wow, I saw a lot of nudity
During New Year's Day, there are more than just small X and small Z scrubbing.
After the festival, the two learned that another southern colleague, Little N, had gone to the large bathing center in the Northeast Metropolis (Shenyang) to scrub a bath. The size of the bathing center there, the splendor of its own, is like a small world of idle clouds and wild cranes.
Back at the company, Little N sighed, "Wine pond meat forest! ”
Meaning via "Bath Girl! 》
Little X and Little Z both nodded.
This "wine pond meat forest" is certainly different from the accusation of extravagance and debauchery of the Shang King in the "Chronicle of History". After all, the "wine" people say is a whole pool of wine, and anyone can go down. Moreover, the "meat" people say is serious roast meat, not a cluster of human beings who act in their original form.
The feeling of the wine pond in the bathing center is somewhat similar to the garden of Eden imagined in the secular world. Before Satan appeared, both Adam and Eve were unclothed. Naked, eating and drinking, doing nothing, hanging around. But the garden (bathhouse) has boundaries, and beyond the boundaries are sinister things. In the Northern Song Dynasty, where the bathhouses of Caoyun flourished, didn't the workers have to make a living when they left the bathhouse?
After new year's day, the skin of Little X and Little Z's forearms is particularly smooth to the touch. Sitting at the table in early winter, touching their hands and eating takeout, Little X and Little Z miss the time in the dust-free and light bathhouse. No clothes, no work, no dirt.
A colleague from the south asked: "What is the feeling, scrubbing the bath?" ”
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So, what the hell is it like, scrubbing?
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Author - Wet Market