In the past, every time I went to the old bathhouse to take a bath, in addition to bathing, I could also enjoy the traditional culture. Nowadays, some traditional culture has been lost, and some have been quietly forgotten by people, if there are juniors in the future when they ask, what else can we say?
In the early 1930s, there were 34 baths in old Jinan. Why is it that after the opening of Mingxin Pool, many baths have been depressed in business and their income has gradually decreased?
As the saying goes, the people can't live in a hurry and can't live slowly, which is the Chinese style of stability. Since Li Chun said, in the first month of the spring lights, february two dragons look up, the year's events will be opened; to say that these twenty-four solar terms, less than one is not successful, the old ancestors left behind, are our heirlooms.
In recent days, suddenly encountering cold air, walking under the trees that are gradually fading, the mood is fluttering in the air with the pieces of golden autumn leaves, hurrying through the oil painting-like scenery, on the way to work, I have felt the chill of late autumn!
"Drink tea, pull, eat?" And it is said that in the water and soil of Jinan, in the past, the people lived a life, three meals a day rough tea and light rice, eating and dressing, and the amount of household belongings, plain and plain.
To say that in the past, the authentic old Jinan people, in addition to eating and drinking on weekdays, pulling and listening to books, taking a bath is a matter of elegance. According to the seasons, in addition to the summer, some old bathhouses are also full of customers in the spring and autumn, which is very lively!
In winter, customers come and go in and out of large and small bathhouses, which is the most prosperous of the year. In the past, the old Jinan people managed the bathhouse (bath) called: tangzi. For example: "Today is really cool!" Let's go, let's go to the church? "Oh, warm and warm, but it's really nourishing!" ”
I remember when I was a child, I often went with my grandfather to the spring baths on Fukang Street, which was closer to fukang, and took a bath. At that time, people outside the city, customers from the south to the north, money and no money, back and forth to Jinan Province do not go to the bubble bath, that is Mao Brother (old Jinan dialect).
Bathing, naturally not only for the sake of washing, the so-called "seven points of soaking and three points of washing"; lo and behold, in the steaming of the fog, in the hall where the water is rushing, the showers are neatly arranged around, and in the middle is a large and a small two pools, and the water is deeper than the knee, and the inner ring steps can be half sitting in the water. In the haze of the plague, the fish and dragons in the pool are mixed, and the old and young masters see each other with sincerity.
The water temperature of the large pool is moderate, but it can be half sitting, and when there are few people, they can lie flat in the water without over their shoulders; and the small pool with a high water temperature on the side is the "forbidden place" for ordinary people. The water temperature is high! Only those elders with immeasurable merit like to enter the "enjoyment" when they are young, and they can also be regarded as "brave" in the eyes of children.
Now every winter to soak in the bath, the water temperature is much lower than the previous state-run bathhouse, the customers are also a little deserted, but some of the services in the bathhouse are still retained. The real bath, according to the individual's situation, one from shallow to deep, sweat steaming step by step; two is to moisturize the skin and nourish the muscles, dispel cold and scatter stasis, relax the muscles and activate the blood; the third is to nourish the internal organs, condense the muscles and bones; and then feel comfortable, the mood is enjoyed! Those who come and go in a hurry are not really baths.
In addition, the old bathhouse is also a place to chat and pull, jump on the roots, and meet friends. Here are people with three teachings and nine streams, five elements and eight works, people talk about the world, talk about the parents, and the character of life; the previous bathhouse business is considered to be diligent, the so-called diligent: brain diligence, eye diligence, mouth diligence, hand diligence, foot diligence. What tea pours water, greets guests, hangs clothes and towels, everything is thoughtful; rows of black lacquer eight immortals sleeping on the kang, customers or lying on their sides, or holding tea cups slowly, some fingers holding cigarettes in meditation, some fragrant dreams getaway to nine xiao, and some are massaging cupping a sweat, and then look at the pedicure master, carving dragon embroidery phoenix-like busy life,,,,,,
During the break, he was rubbing the bath with the master who was rubbing the bath, and he smiled and said: Hey! Now there are fewer and fewer people to take a bath, most of them are old acquaintances, the boss is not good at business, and the rent is expensive! Then LeHe asked the guests: Teacher, rub some bath salts, right? Anti-inflammatory and anti-itch...
In the meantime, I saw the types of services provided by the bath hanging on the wall of the locker room: bath: 10 yuan; scrubbing: 10 yuan; massage: 15 yuan; cupping: 15 yuan,,, compared with some high-end bathing places elsewhere, the price is lower.
I asked the boss, now that the rent has risen, the money of people and employees has risen, why don't you go up? He smiled and shook his head: "It's all old neighborhoods, old customers, why are they rising?"
That day, I talked to a bathing grandfather, he said: "In the past, the unit issued a five-cent bath ticket a month, washed twice and found a penny." "At that time, the living conditions were limited, it was cold outside in winter, and there were always a few people who often lay in the warm bathhouse during the day, mixed with the waiters, and naturally it was half a home."
In my impression, when I was a child, I went to take a bath, what Shunde Pool, Ming Xin Pool, Four Seas Spring, Hot Spring Pool, etc., because the small people crowded in the middle of the adults, hiding around and playing; there were haircuts, pedicures, cupping in the bathhouse, looking at the bath master's lower body shorts, a snow-white towel on the half-naked shoulder, and was skillfully polishing the bathroom towel for the guests lying flat...
In the bathhouse, the "cultural salon"
I remember watching a Korean hit drama "The Men of the Bathhouse Boss", the plot is very funny! Although it is a soap opera, the grandfather in it is undoubtedly the dominant boss of the family, when he first came into contact with "The Bathhouse", it was the scene where the grandmother was cutting the nose hair of the grandfather and the grandfather complained, the machismo was impressive, there were many things in life that did not matter, but the realistic scene inside attracted the audience the most, the machismo was majestic, and the old man and the old lady in their later years were superficially quarrelsome in essence, and the essence was the greatness of life and romantic love. The play is full of humorous collisions between traditional culture and contemporary life, although it is funny, it is actually a kind of reflection on the contradiction between past culture and modern civilization, and it is a foreign thing, which seems to be the same as our lives.
"Drink tea, pull, eat?" "Old Jinan story, today to talk to you about our Jinan past bathhouse culture, some people will ask, is not it a bath! What's there to talk about?
Since the eighteenth year of Guangxu (1892), He Deshun, a native of Licheng County, opened the earliest bath in Jinan, Shunde Pond, on Zhideyuan Street, and nearly forty years have passed since the opening of MingxinChi. In the meantime, various baths in Jinan continue to emerge, including many powerful people, such as Ruipinxiang outside the Puli Gate, Fangchi Garden on Jinger Road, and Yongquan Pond in Wanzi Lane. Far from saying, even around the Mingxin pool, there are sanitary pools, new new pools, new new gardens, etc., these baths are spacious, the use of new boilers, the installation of showers, there are large pools, small pools and bathtubs, sanitary pools also opened the first wind, opened a female pool. These powerful baths, for the Mingxin Pool at that time, looked like a mountain that was difficult to overcome.
Mingxinchi was built in Jinan in 1933 by Zhang Binting, a native of Huangxian County, Shandong Province. It is one of the enterprises that arose in Jinan in the 1930s, the crown of Jinan's bath industry, Mingxinchi was prepared in 1931, broke ground in 1932, and was officially opened in December 1933.
Zhang Binting only believes in strength, after all, he has seen foreign scenes in Qingdao, and at the beginning of the preparation, Zhang Binting vowed to make Mingxinchi the best bath in Jinan. To this end, he first went to Qingdao to visit the larger baths such as Yude Lou, Sanxin Lou, and Zhongxin Pond, and later inspected most of China, looking at the bathing pool in Shenyang, the Dalian pool in Dalian, the Tsinghua pool in Tianjin, and the Xinghua pool in Beijing, learning successful experience.
The Mingxin Pond of the old commercial port of Jinan is known as the first pool in North China
In December 1933, Ming Xinchi was officially opened. It can be said that Mingxinchi was built by absorbing the advantages of famous pond buildings across the country.
The glory of the first pool in North China: Mingxinchi is a "Hui" shaped building, with two floors above ground and one floor underground. There are 240 rooms, which are brick, wood and cement structures. The outer ring is a two-story building, with a normal seat and a women's bathroom on the first floor, and a lounge of various grades such as private seats, small rooms, and large rooms on the second floor. The inner circle is three floors, the first and second floors are equipped with large baths and washrooms, and the third floor is a staff dormitory. The interior of the building is exquisitely decorated, with stairs, floors, and furniture. Copper teapots and wooden fans are practical and beautiful. The baths are made of concrete and covered with white tiles. The west courtyard has a boiler room for heating gas, and the east courtyard has a large reservoir and a well. From the outside, the entire building is compactly laid out, maximizing the use of space.
Ming Xinchi has an advanced design, using a large glass window corridor, the sunrise surface is a single window, and the back sun side is a double window. It can not only keep the indoor light sufficient, but also achieve the purpose of keeping warm in winter and heat in summer. In winter, Mingxin Pond uses heating, and the indoor temperature remains above 20 ° C.
Ming Xin Chi is divided into male and female departments. The female department is also known as the "female basin". The entrance and exit of the male part is located in the north of Jingsan Road, and the entrance and exit of the female part is located in the east of Weier Road to show that "there is a difference between men and women". The women's department had a total of 6 rooms and 4 baths, which was the largest women's bath in the province at that time. A plaque hangs in front of the men's department hall with four golden words reading "Spotless". Everywhere in the building is as clean as a wash. To the left and right of the foyer is a long corridor. In the middle of the corridor is a corridor more than a meter wide, and on both sides is paved. Each of the two bunks is set in a group with a coffee table in the middle, with a kettle, water cup and free boiling water. If you drink tea, you will need to pay for the tea separately. Between each set of bunks, a half-arm high wooden partition is blocked, and it does not affect each other. All corners of the corridor are dotted with flowers and plants, and the leaves are green all year round.
The old ming new pool outside the flyer
Ming Xin Chi is known for its environmental hygiene and thoughtful service. People praised Ming Xinchi as "clean water and spotless". Whether it is a pool seat or a private seat or a single room, there is a dedicated service, and everything is taken care of. It is very convenient for customers to change clothes, enter the bath, and enjoy tea and take a nap after the bath. Mingxinchi also has haircuts, back rubbing, pedicure and other services, the fee is very reasonable, can meet the needs of all classes, are praised. Because of this, Mingxinchi is known as the "first pool in North China" and its reputation spreads far and wide outside the province. In 1945, some people even imitated the layout of the Mingxin Pond, opening a similar bath in the capital nanjing at that time, and also made a famous hall.
This person's name is Fu Zuojun, is a brigade commander, Shandong people, once the president of the Shanghai Shandong Hometown Association, he united with the Shandong compatriots in Shanghai and Nanjing as shareholders, near the Nanjing City Daxing Palace, built a three-story Daming Lake bathroom, architectural style, interior decoration, service procedures are imitated by the Mingxin pool, even the waiters are all Shandong people.
As soon as the Daming Lake bathroom opened, it was welcomed by the people of Nanjing, including many leading figures such as He Yingqin and Cheng Qian. It is said that when The President of the Republic of China election that year, Cheng Qian, who was running for vice president, also set up a liaison office in the daming lake bathroom.
After the opening of Mingxin Pool, it had a great impact on the bath industry in Jinan. According to the records of the time, in the early 1930s, there were thirty-four baths in Jinan. After the opening of Mingxinchi, many baths were depressed in business and reduced in income, such as being closer to Mingxinchi, which was also the larger east-west building in the city, the first pool, Huaqing pool, etc., which lost in the competition and soon closed down.
Ming xinchi, which is booming in business, has also been targeted by some hooligans. In order to prevent these people from picking quarrels and making trouble, Zhang Binting used all means and relations to pull forces and find backers. In order to win the support and favor of Han Fuyu, chairman of Shandong Province, Zhang Binting specially built a large room for him, with three basins and four beds, which was closed to the public on weekdays and specially entertained Han Fuyu.
Sun Shaolin, the owner of the Daguanyuan Chenguang Tea House and a famous cross-talk artist, regards Ming xinchi as a place to receive peers and friends, one is to appear high-end, the other is to take the meaning of washing the dust with the wind, and the third is to exchange skills. In the words of Sun Shaolin, soaking in the bath is particularly inspiring.
In the autumn of one year, Sun Shaolin received the Famous Tianjin Cross-Talk Artist Feng Liduo at Mingxinchi. The two of them exchanged views while taking a bath, and improvised a passage of "Selling Cloth Heads", and it was wrapped in a bath towel and stood by the pool to say. It may be that the soaking time is long, Feng Liduo is a little hungry, while shouting, while carrying a bath towel, afraid of falling. Sun Shaolin, who wants to learn a hand, wonders: How can this Feng Liduo's "Selling Cloth Heads" still have the action of lifting pants? So I followed the imitation, and it was a joke for a while.
At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, bathing was considered a "bourgeois enjoyment". In response to the revolution, the Red Guards changed many of the old brands: Daguanyuan was renamed "Dongfanghong Shopping Mall"; Wanzixiang Shopping Mall was renamed "Sun Rising Market"; Jufengde Restaurant was renamed "Workers' and Peasants' Soldiers' Hotel"; ruifengxiang cloth shop was renamed "Workers', Peasants' and Soldiers' Cloth Shop". Ming xinchi was naturally not spared and was renamed "Dongfeng Pond". It may be the meaning of "the east wind overwhelms the west wind".
In 1996, Wei'er Road was widened and Mingxin Pond was demolished. Later, a building was erected here, which was the Luneng Building. An old bath that many Jinan people remember deeply, was thus lost in the clouds of history and turned into a distant meteor.
Nowadays, with the great changes in the development of urban construction in Jinan, the quality of life of the people has improved, and they can enjoy a variety of advanced baths, such as: sauna steaming, special hot spring baths, spa massages and other fashionable things. But after people experience it one by one, they always feel that something is missing in it, and it turns out that it is missing our traditional culture. With the advent of the aging society, the health care problems of middle-aged and elderly people are on the way, recalling the bathhouse culture of old Jinan, for those of us who like nostalgia: soaking in the old bathhouse, it feels really good!!
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