Southerners vs Northerners
It's like different species living on the same continent
Differences in the lives of both parties
Not only is it reflected in sweet and salty tofu brain & rice dumplings, large and small cockroaches...
Even the mediocre bath
You can also compare the flowers
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Zhi duodian:
Regarding the frequency of bathing, there is no scientific conclusion. The weather in the south is hot, the rain is abundant, and it is convenient to take a bath; the north is dry and lack of water, especially in ancient times, and bathing is not so convenient.
Officials of the Han Dynasty could only take a holiday every 5 days, and they took a bath by the way, which was called "rest mu"[1], so the habit of washing once a few days in the north really has historical roots.
If you are not a manual worker or a person who is prone to sweating and odor, and the environment is relatively clean, you can decide to take a bath for a few days according to your own situation.
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If you need to do manual labor or a lot of exercise to sweat a lot, or contact with more dust, you can also wash it every day.
The bath time should not be too long, especially for patients with cardiovascular disease, it is recommended to control it within 20 minutes [2].
Remind everyone that it is not okay to wash every day and rub it desperately. Especially in winter, the secretion of skin oil is reduced, and if you rub it again, sooner or later you will rub the skin, and severe it will induce dry eczema [3].
(How to rub scientifically, until the end of the article sneak peek oh ~)
Zhi duodian:
You don't have to wait for the auspicious time to take a bath, but if you have just done the following 3 things, it is recommended not to wash first:
●Just finished eating: At this time, bathing will transfer blood to the surface skin of the body, resulting in a decrease in blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract, which will affect the digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract in the long run.
●Just drank alcohol: Bathing after drinking alcohol can easily cause insufficient blood supply to the brain, and in severe cases, it can also cause hypoglycemia, resulting in accidents such as fainting [4]. After drinking alcohol, the pores open and it is easy to catch a cold.
● Before going to sleep: Taking a bath before going to bed will speed up blood circulation, which is not conducive to quickly entering the sleep state and affecting the quality of sleep.
Zhi duodian:
"Push harder, make a little harder!"
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"Right right right right is here ~~"
Don't think about it, you're taking a shower!
The highest courtesy of northerners to entertain friends is to have a one-stop service of "brewing and steaming" and enjoying the dual health care of the mind and body.
The bathhouse with high specifications gathers many services that many southerners have never heard of:
Mud (back rubbing), milking (applying milk to the body), buffet, billiards, movies... As long as your wallet is drummed, you can buy all the unexpected pleasures.
Although southerners do not have bathhouses, they will never miss a similar enjoyment - hot springs.
Wake up quickly, bathing in the bathhouse/hot spring is also a "physical work", the following situations to pay attention to:
●Before soaking
To eat a full meal, do not be too tired, so as not to have low blood sugar, low blood pressure, etc.
If you have wounds or skin diseases such as eczema, it is best not to soak in hot springs [5].
●When soaking
Don't pursue high temperatures, the water temperature is slightly higher than the body temperature. The soaking time should not be too long, and it should be about 15 minutes to get up and rest. During the whole process, it is necessary to replenish water in time and rest in time.
●After soaking
Keep warm, quickly dry the moisture and apply emollient products.
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Zhi duodian:
The bath towel ranked first in the "Top Ten Confusions of Southerners on Northern Specialties".
What northerner didn't experience the fear of being dominated by a bath towel as a child? If not, it must be that you have been thick-skinned since you were a child.
It is a palm-sized, rough-surface glove-style bathing device that increases friction with the skin, washes away dirt, and so on.
However, the bath towel is not very friendly to the skin, especially the nylon material, the surface is rough, and the violent rubbing will cause the epidermal cells to fall off, the loss of sebum, and even rubbing. When the skin barrier is damaged, it is easy for pathogens to enter the void, causing some skin diseases such as molluscum contagiosum [6].
Bath towels in some bathhouses are common, rubbing each other's backs, which can easily lead to the spread of infectious diseases [7].
Bath towels should be dedicated and often used to boil in boiling water for disinfection. Do not rub vigorously while bathing.
The bath ball is soft in material, easy to foam, and the cleaning ability is not bad at all, so it can be used more.
Zhi duodian:
In order not to be monotonous and boring when bathing, people tend to change their tricks.
In addition to the common shower gel and soap in the south, scrubs are also used to make the aging and dead keratin and cells fall off, and the skin becomes soft and delicate.
However, scrubs should not be used regularly, otherwise it may cause the stratum corneum to become thinner and thinner, becoming "sensitive muscle" [8]. Oily or aging skin can be used once every 2 to 4 weeks, but not recommended for dry and sensitive skin [4].
In the eyes of northeasterners, no matter what they eat and drink, they can be used when rubbing their backs.
Adding milk, called milk rubbing or beating milk, as well as vinegar rubbing, salt rubbing, wine rubbing and so on. If nothing is added, it is called "hair rubbing". The back rubger will also rub while nagging: "Rubbing with vinegar can remove dead skin, milk rubbing can whiten..." Mingli secretly tells you that this money is worth it.
Unfortunately, there is no scientific research to prove that rubbing the back with vinegar, wine, milk, etc. is beneficial to skin health. The more reliable is the "salt rub", which is generally sea salt, which can deeply clean the skin keratin [9].
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However, bath salts should not be used frequently, and it is not harmful to use oil skin occasionally, and dry skin and sensitive skin are not recommended [4].
In fact, the north and south bathing methods are different
Mainly caused by weather, environment and other reasons
Bath culture is not good or bad
Respect each other's differences in living habits
Pay attention to skin hygiene
Wash when you want, wash happily
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