Do you go to the northeast to take a bath or go to Changsha to pinch your feet? What does the Bath king say?
As we all know, China's culture is broad and profound, "wine culture" and "tea culture", like a branch of Traditional Chinese Culture, have far-reaching historical and cultural heritage, but today's protagonist is not "wine culture" and "tea culture", the following I will introduce another traditional culture in our country - bath culture.
China's bathing culture can be said to have a very long history, as early as more than 3,000 years ago in the Yin Shang era, in the oracle bones and many documents have bathing records. In the "Zhou Li", there is also a record of "there is a bathroom in the king's bed", and the ancients attached great importance to bathing.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, industrious people invented special utensils for bathing. Xiao Gang, emperor of the Southern Dynasty Liang Jianwen, once authored the three volumes of the Bathing Sutra, which is the earliest monograph on bathing found in China so far, and many details about the bathing of the ancients can also be seen.
In the Tang Dynasty, the ancients were more particular about bathing. It is said that Huaqing Pond was a place for emperors to bathe during the Tang Dynasty, as early as 3,000 years ago, there were hot springs here, and the Qin Dynasty built "Lishan Tang", so the hot spring baths began to enter people's lives. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty already had full-time service personnel who wiped the backs of valets, and they were very well received by bathers. Su Dongpo used a sentence "Send words to wipe people's backs, day and night laborers to wave their elbows" to depict the scene at that time In the Song Dynasty, public baths began to appear.
After understanding the ancient bath culture in China, what are the characteristics of foreign bath culture? More than 3,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians began to bathe. Ancient Egyptian nobles will let many servants line up with water, pour water on their own pots and basins, and also use a kind of toiletries called perfume, so that we have a faint fragrance, bathing in ancient Egypt has formed a symbol of class, but also a culture, by the noble class value.
Finally, let's take a look at the bathing culture of ancient Greece, the history of bathing culture in ancient Greece is also very long, the ancient Greeks invented the water diversion technology and public baths. All water systems are long-flowing water, and there are many large public baths in the city, and the spring water is introduced into the city from the mountain with elevated sinks and flows into the public baths for everyone to bathe. The ancient Greeks not only invented the bath, but also raised the bath to the level of consciousness, in their concept, bathing is not only a way to clean, but also a symbol of victory, in the ancient Greek military camps will also set up a bathroom. Each country and region has its own unique bathing culture, you need to do is to respect different cultures, the knowledge of bathing culture is shared here, interested people can continue to pay attention to Xiaobian.