Title? What's the matter with you? Polo also wrote that all people in Hangzhou are used to taking a bath once a day, especially before eating. This article is taken from: China Net, author: Anonymous, original title: "Bathing of Ancient China People" Xu Shen's "Shuowen Jiezi" interprets washing as sprinkling feet and bathing as sprinkling hands. From this point of view, the meaning of ancient bathing is not exactly the same as that of modern bathing. Only by combining Xu Shen's explanation of bathing with bathing can we take a bath in a complete sense, because bathing, hair blowing, bathing and showering are also the same. Bathing paper horse "The Book of Rites"? Neijing once stipulated that bathing should be done: soup for five days and bathing for three days. In the meantime, the surface is dirty, please; Your feet are dirty, please wash the soup. Most people take a bath with two towels, up and down. When you get out of the pole and walk on the mat, you can drink it repeatedly, even soup, pu mat and clothes. When people die, they have to cut off their nails and feet, and only when they take a shower can they whine. As for Confucius bathing in the DPRK, it is well known. During the Spring and Autumn Period, people were serious about taking a bath. If you want to take a comfortable and thorough bath, of course, it is ideal in the hot pool. Bath appeared more clearly, about the reign of Qin Shihuang. There are two sentences in Tu Mu's "Epang Palace Fu" in the Tang Dynasty: the two rivers dissolve into each other and flow into the palace wall, and the nourishment and diversion are tired, and the fat and water are abandoned. It can be inferred that Epang Palace has a waterway, and the water from Wei and Fan Erchuan outside can be discharged into the palace. After the imperial secretary took a bath, powder water flowed out through the waterway, making Wei Liu greasy. It can be imagined that Epang Palace has baths, and the quantity is quite large, and the quality is not low. It shows that the waterway of Afanggong has been carefully planned and designed, and the designer has considered the terrain, slope and flow direction, so that the waterway can not only absorb river water, but also discharge dirty water through circulation. There is even a facility to filter Wei and Fan's water in Epang Palace, which makes it stay up all night and gurgle. As the representative of the upper class of society, aristocrats need a neat appearance to match their great prestige. Shi Shuo Xin Yu in the Southern Dynasties advocated that you must put on new clothes after bathing. It can be seen that the nobles took bathing as a content of paying attention to hygiene and established a set of procedures. However, it is impossible for nobles to make bathing a patent for a few people. That is to say, bathing is one of the necessary conditions for monks to serve Buddhism. In the Tang Dynasty, the Book of Changes wrote the daily rituals of the monks he met in India as "Biography of the South China Sea Returning to the Inner Law", in which it was recorded that there were more than ten large pools in Nalanduo Temple, and every morning, the monks were bathed by sound and health in the temple. Buddhism in China comes from India, and monks in China strictly observe the habit of bathing. The three volumes of Bath Sutra and Monk's Law mentioned in the Book of Southern Qi all have words to persuade people to build more bathrooms. Dunhuang murals depict the scenes of monks bathing, which are all evidence of bathing habits. Gao Cheng's "Jiyuan Affairs" once explained the way of washing Buddha on the eighth day of April: I washed my heart with water, and now I invite a monk to take a bath to get rid of my body. Showing respect to Buddha by bathing. Temples in China have long had bathrooms, such as the Baoguang Temple Garden in Yang Lizhi's "Galand in Luoyang". The bathroom at that time was excavated at the site of Famen Temple in Fufeng, Shaanxi. From then on, whether in classics or novels, we can often see monks who pay attention to bathing. They regard bathing as a solemn ceremony, just like the elders in the five precepts of Zen master's private red lotus. Before they end their lives, they only have one request: burn a bucket of soup with me and take a bath! Then I changed into a new suit and sat down. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, bathing had spread all over the people. Zhuang's "Chicken Ribs" said: There are millions of people in Tokyo, and they all use coal instead of firewood. It seems common for citizens to enjoy hot baths. Fan Chengda's "Plum Tree" also said: In order to compete for the first time, the flower sellers in Lin 'an put the first folded plum branches in the bathroom and fumigated them with hot and humid steam in the bathroom to make the dormant flower buds open ahead of time. This is obviously the influence of bathing on people's beautification of life. Kyle. The Travel Notes of Polo tells us that there were cold baths on some streets in Hangzhou in Yuan Dynasty, which were served by waiters and waitresses. Male and female customers in these baths have been used to taking cold baths all year round since childhood, which is considered to be very good for their health. Kyle. Polo also wrote that all people in Hangzhou are used to taking a bath once a day, especially before eating. The interpretation of proverbs in Park Synchronism shows a picture of citizens taking a bath in the capital of Yuan Dynasty in detail. At that time, in addition to taking a bath, public baths could also scratch their backs, comb their hair, shave their heads and get pedicures, but the prices were different. Taking a bath costs five yuan for soup, two yuan for scratching your back, five yuan for combing your hair, two yuan for shaving your hair, and five yuan for pedicure. There is also a cupboard for clothes, hats and boots in the bath. The bathing procedure is: go to Neitangchi for a while, sleep in the second room, and then go in for a bath, but have a rest in the guest room, comb your hair, shave, pedicure and cool down. When I was young, I wore clothes and ate a few mouthfuls of closed wine, which was different in spirit. This is no different from modern people taking a bath.