In the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song", it is described that the noble concubines came out of the bath: "Spring cold gives baths to Huaqing Pool, and the hot spring water slides to wash the gelatin." The waiter lifted up the delicate and weak, and it was the time of the new cheng enze. ”
So what did Yang Guifei use to take a bath? Bath beans.
Yang Guifei was lucky, born in the Tang Dynasty, if born in ancient times, then you can only find a pure natural bathhouse, a river, a lake, or a small pool. You can only take a bath with mud, and some unspeakable things may happen.
In ancient times, when Emperor Zhao was the chief of the United Tribes, he had four wives. One day, Emperor Zhao visited abroad for a year. After returning, I was surprised that the second wife was pregnant. Emperor Zhao was very angry, and the second wife told him a story. One day, she went to the pond to take a bath, and when she looked up, she saw a swallow throwing a bird's egg from the air. The second wife opened her mouth, the bird egg grunted, dropped her stomach, and became pregnant.
Emperor...
Where did the child of the second wife of the emperor come from, not what we care about, what we want to say is when she takes a bath, what she uses as shower gel.
As you might not expect, it's dirt.
Experts say that in the earliest days, people used dirt to clean their bodies. You see puppies, kittens, and pigs, horses, cows and sheep, often rolling in the dirt, that is a bath.
Nowadays, when people mention the bathing of the ancients, they immediately think of the petal bath, which is a TV series to deceive.
Without cleaning products, how many petals you sprinkle, you can't wash your body. Fortunately, in ancient times Chinese were quite clever, and they found grass and wood ash, which could wash things.
After washing clothes with grass and wood ash, it should be hung on a high place, the clothes are dry, and the grass and wood ash is also blown away by the wind, which is convenient for saving money.
Confucius took a bath and did just that.
One day, Confucius and Zilu, Ran Qiu, Gong Xihua, and Zeng Hao talked about ideals and pursuits.
Everyone else had finished blowing the bull, and Zeng Hao felt that he couldn't blow them all the time, so he came to a grounded place. He said that his ideal was to put on spring clothes in the warm spring, and five or six people, all taking their children, would take a good bath in Yishui. Then blow the wind on the high slope, sing and go home to find a wife.
Confucius said, great, I want to be so whole.
When Zeng Hao was taking a bath, blowing the wind on the high slope was to blow away the grass and wood ash.
So why did taking a bath become a lofty ideal and pursuit? People in the Spring and Autumn Period, taking a bath, is quite not easy.
At that time, the noble scholars, or rich people, had the opportunity to "bath lan soup and mu fang", and could use aromatic plants such as orchid grass to boil water to purify their bodies, and the scholars, wash their faces with rice water to remove dirt.
Unfortunately, Confucius was not an aristocratic scholar, not even a scholar, let alone money.
Some people have said that Confucius was a saint, so why can he not be a scholar? This is what Sima Qian said.
Once, the authorities of the State of Lu sent Ji Shi to hold a reception and drink. Entertain the educated, that is, the scholars. When Confucius heard of such a good thing, he went upside down. Ji's slave (courtier), the Yang Hu of the door did not let him in, saying that we are a place to entertain high-ranking people, what are you counting, and you want to mix it up? Len threw Confucius out.
The inability to attend a banquet for the scholars shows that Confucius did not even mix with the scholars.
So when did you start bathing without grass and tree ash? Three kingdoms. During the Three Kingdoms period, bathing beans that integrate bathing, beauty, perfume enhancement, and deodorization appeared brightly.
In Cao Cao's tomb, a surprising thing was unearthed, the "Female Bath Bean" stone stele.
Of course, the bath beans on the side of the "female bath bean" stone stele have been extinguished. Because Cao Cao's tomb has female bath beans, as well as women's supplies such as cui hairpins and embroidered shoes, some people suspect that Cao Cao is a woman.
So what is the "bath bean" used by Cao Cao and Yang Guifei? Invented during the Wei and Jin dynasties, a special washing item is equivalent to the soap, laundry detergent, shower gel, shampoo used by our modern people, and is also equivalent to body lotion and conditioner.
As the name suggests, the word "bath bean", that is, "the bean used in the bath", in fact, the volume of the bath bean is much larger than the bean, similar to a ping-pong ball, or a tennis ball.
From the perspective of modern medicine, the ingredients of "bath beans" are all ingredients, and the effect of "dissolving fat" in the stomach is like decontamination with soap, clean and thorough.
So why do bath beans have such magical effects? Because it's expensive.
The bath bean recipe in "A Thousand Golden Fangs" is extravagant and frightening: cloves, agarwood, agarwood, peach blossoms, stalactite powder, true pearls, jade chips, Shu water flowers, papaya flowers, nai flowers, pear flowers, red lotus flowers, plum flowers, cherry flowers, white hollyhock flowers, spiral flowers four or two, musk one baht each. On the seventeen flavors, pound the flowers, do not pound the incense, the pearls, jade chips do not study the powder, the hehe soybean minced seven, study a thousand times, store secretly and do not leak.
Because so many good things have been used, and they have been modulated by a master of traditional Chinese medicine such as Sun Simiao, it is powerful: "Within ten days, the face is as white as snow, and the skin is like gelatin in twenty days."
Now, don't say tens of thousands of pieces of cosmetics, that is, hundreds of thousands of bottles, dare to say that there is this magical effect?
I really don't dare.
Because the bath beans are so arrogant, some horses are not used, and they have never even seen them.
There is a joke recorded in the "New Language of the World": Wang Dun, a horse in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, had just married the princess and was going to go to the toilet. After coming out, the maid brought water and bath beans to wash his hands.
Wang Dun saw those bath beans, packed in exquisite glass bowls, smelling the incense, thinking in his heart, this palace is exquisite, just finished pulling it will be straightened in. So I poured the bath beans into the wash basin, mixed them into a paste and ate them directly, while eating and boasting, delicious.
Because there are a lot of Chinese medicine in the bath beans, it also has the effect of curing diseases.
It is said that Tang Dezong's daughter Yonghe Princess, hit the small face yellow without pulling a few, like anti-cold painted wax. There is a Taoist priest throughout the "bath bean washing method", a few days of kung fu, Yonghe Princess skin became delicate and white, old and beautiful.
Those who have used bath beans are also Empress Dowager Cixi. She asked the imperial doctor to slightly increase or decrease the soup of the bath beans in the Tang Dynasty and use it as a mask. Therefore, the old lady of Cixi is more than sixty years old, and her skin is still white and tender like a girl.
Now, you understand why Yang Guifei loves to take a bath, there are bath beans. Not only whitening, wrinkle removal, but more importantly, adding fragrance to the underarm odor...
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