Remember Sun Yaoting, the last eunuch in China, who used to serve the imperial concubine? According to his own words, before taking a bath, the clothes must be taken off. Because the consort bathing is a very complicated thing, and the consort is often bathing.
Why do consorts have to bathe often? First, the consort belongs to the emperor, that certainly can not look dirty, which makes the emperor itself will not be happy, because the consort also represents the dignity of this royal family, the image of what is very important, so the consort will often take a bath. Secondly, bathing is a very comfortable thing. According to Sun Yaoting said, the imperial concubine in the bath, is itself completely hands-free, there are eunuchs and palace maids to serve. Take a bath itself is a very relief, and there are people waiting, why not do it? Third, the bath can also be used as entertainment. Ancient times and now is not the same, the relative lack of entertainment activities, the consort stays in the palace is also boring, and can not just go out of the palace, so the bath can indeed be used as a recreational activities.
Consort bathing is indeed very complex, as if the Empress Dowager Cixi eat a meal to get hundreds of dishes. The eunuchs were responsible for everything from testing the temperature of the water, placing flower petals and other nutrients in the water that were excellent for the skin, to rubbing the backs. There are some extremely favored by the emperor's concubine, may even use milk to bathe, the purpose is only one, that is to make their skin more smooth, take good care of themselves.
During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Chengdi of Han once peeped at his own consort, Zhao Hede, the sister of Zhao Feiyan, taking a bath. Emperor Chengdi of Han was so mesmerized by that that he favored Zhao Heide.
Ordinary people take a bath, that basically has only one purpose, is to remove the dust on the body, to keep tidy. Since it is for the sake of neatness, then it is impossible to wear clothes to take a bath, which feels very strange ah. If you wear clothes, then it is difficult to wash off the body stains, and wash up very uncomfortable, is not to find their own guilt.
In fact, the ancient people bathing and our modern people bathing is still quite similar, that is, the bathing tools used are not the same. Ancient people usually bathe in their own homes, especially women. And the bathing tool is usually a wooden basin, or a very large wooden barrel, into the hot water can be washed. Of course, if the home conditions are very good, you can also put something good for the skin into the water, just like the royal women.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the public **** bathroom is more popular, many people like to go to the bathroom to take a bath, of course, mainly men, at the same time, then the public **** bathroom is more than just a bath, there are a lot of other functions, such as shaving the head and foot repair and so on, it feels like more than the function of our modern public **** bathroom.
During the Ming Dynasty, hot springs became popular.
Ancient people bathe, one for cleaning, two, in many cases because it is going to happen more important things. For example, the emperor will go to the temple tomorrow to worship, today they also take a bath, and with him to go to the consort and so on, also take a bath, so it seems more solemn.
An ordinary people's daughter, tomorrow will be married, today will take a bath, put on new clothes, tomorrow happy to be a bride. There are rich and noble families, soaking in hot springs is indeed for fun, but this can not be said to be a real bath. Some bathing is more advanced, completely for the sake of health, so that their physical health, such as the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Ancient bathing must be undressed, there is no doubt.
Bathing implicitly and elegantly said, is the purification of the body. Our people speak, is to wash away the dust on the body, rubbing mud just. Because if people do not take a bath for a long time, the body will naturally feel uncomfortable. So the bath is a direct contact with the skin process, you say not to take off the clothes can do?
Whether it is an ancient feudal society or a modern civilized society, regardless of men and women to take a bath is to undress, which is an indisputable fact. Ancient bathing is much simpler than modern times, and the conditions are better than a big barrel to get it done. No conditions to the wild ravine "wild bubble" to bathe in nature, is also a good choice. Because there is no ancient bath products, so they generally use rice water or grass ash, soap pods, etc., which can not only remove dirt and health care functions.
Ancient women are very concerned about personal hygiene, basically three days to wash their hair once, five days to take a bath. When bathing, generally naked, never like the movie and television works show as wearing clothes bathing. Especially in the Tang Dynasty, the woman is no talent is virtue of the era, women are particularly open, women to bare chest and bare back for the beauty, is usually seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the clothes do not cover the body of the woman, not to mention in the bathing bath time la! Usually so open, you are her bath how can wear clothes?
Absolutely naked. Others do not say, that is, the Empress Dowager Cixi so noble characters, a bath still have to so many courtesans in the side waiting, you say the Empress Dowager Cixi are not afraid to look naked, let alone the ordinary people's family! So I personally think that the ancient people bathing will not wear clothes, and then wear clothes how to wash, that is not convenient ah, wear clothes that is not called a bath, it is called washing clothes! Everyone think about what you say I said is not this reason.
Ancient people bathing is generally divided into two cases, the first is simply to remove the body of the dirt and stains, the second is to participate in major rituals before the next we look at the two cases of bathing in the end do not take off the clothes!
One, the body is itchy or remove the body dirt and stains bath!
Modern people itchy or stained body will go to the bathhouse to soak a bath, the home has a water heater at home to take a shower is also very comfortable, however, no matter whether it is to the bathhouse or at home in the shower will be undressed to take a shower. Although the ancient people do not have our modern conditions, but they are not as unhygienic as we think, the ancient home will generally prepare a bath tub, hit a bucket of hot water to take off their clothes and sit in the bucket inside the bubble both clean and comfortable.
If you wear clothes into the tub bath, out of the water will certainly take a body, shelves you will do so? I think the answer is definitely no! You won't do that, and the ancients certainly won't do that!
Second, to participate in major ritual activities before the bath!
Ancient people to participate in major rituals before the event, in order to show reverence for the gods and goddesses of heaven and earth, generally will be in the sacrifice before fasting and bathing, fasting and the topic has nothing to do with the in-depth discussion, is nothing more than vegetarian, abstaining from sexual intercourse, etc., and bathing is in the rituals before the aromatherapy bath, can not bring the dirt of the world to worship heaven and earth and the gods and goddesses, and the completion of the bath are generally replaced with a clean gown, so in the It is also necessary to undress before bathing!
First of all, it is necessary to answer you, the ancient bath is not dressed .
Often people will wonder, there is no shower gel in ancient times no shampoo, how did they bathe and wash their hair? Let's talk about how our ancient people bathing supplies and shampoo. Primitive society The first people were bathing only down the river a wash, of course, there is no soothing, PiaoYou. Gradually, they found that in the process of washing, some soil was smeared on the hands or body, and then washed with water, which was cleaner than the original. So the clay became the earliest cleaning agent, when the hands stained with grease, rubbed with clay, and then washed with water, the oil is very easy to remove. It is now that we also use rubbing clay to remove gasoline, diesel, animal oil.
Then the people discovered the primitive alkali and learned to boil it. The ancestors gradually developed the habit of bathing in their lives, which was recorded in the oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties at the latest. By the Western Zhou Dynasty, bathing rituals were gradually customized. Fasting bathing has been an important part of the Western Zhou court rituals, by a full-time official. This is recorded in the "Zhou Rites". In the Zhou Dynasty, people use rice water to bathe to get rid of dirt, it is said that not only can get rid of dirt, and health care function is excellent, this is cheap and common in the early bath water. Interested in finding a cloth bag loaded with some starch, bran, grain bran or something in the bathtub under the faucet and then put hot water, put a full tank bath, can cure back pain, cold hands and feet, rough skin, frostbite.
From the written record, the Qin and Han Dynasties, people used soap horn to wash clothes and hair, of course, including grass ash and rice water. In the Western Jin Dynasty, the people had already started to use something called bath beans, which is made of soybean powder, together with various medicines, and has the effect of making the skin smooth and moisturized and preventing skin diseases. Its ingredients are all natural raw materials, can be said to be the earliest face wash.
At that time, people mocked a person rustic, lack of good education, do not know the upper class hygiene habits, often said that the person "do not know the bath beans". For example, when Wang Dun was a rebel minister at the turn of the two Jin dynasties, there was a popular story that when Wang Dun married a princess and became the emperor's son-in-law, he went to the toilet, and the princess's maidservant presented him with a glass bowl of bath beans for him to use when he cleaned his hands, and he mistook the bath beans for fried noodles and poured them into a golden basin. In the gold basin of hand washing, like drinking noodle tea, a gold basin of bath bean paste to drink down the stomach.
Although it is just a joke, but it shows that the bath beans at that time "soap" has appeared. "Bath beans" is the invention of the Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties era of high-grade health cleaning products. Prior to this, the only means of removing grease and grime from people's washrooms was rice soup, noodle soup, and natural soap horn. This period was also the era of the "Great Spice Discovery" in Chinese history, when a variety of western and southern spices arrived in the Central Plains, giving a new look to the life of the aristocracy. The most distinctive feature of bath beans is the elegant aroma of bean flour mixed with precious spices. It is worth noting that the creation and development of the bath bean seems to be related to the flourishing trade of foreign spices since the two Han Dynasty.
Ming and Qing dynasties, the use of soap in rich families is a very common phenomenon, such as the "Golden Lotus" refers to the use of "jasmine soap" when washing the face, "Dream of the Red Chamber" also refers to the use of "soap" in the morning when washing. It should be noted that the old "bath beans" has not completely disappeared. Qing dynasty court appeared in a carefully developed according to the theory of Chinese medicine a unique medicinal soap, exactly the medicinal soap, also known as sandalwood soap. \ This soap was y loved by Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi, not only fragrant and also has the effect of dirt, beauty, itching, moisturizing and so on. In particular, the Ming and Qing dynasties folk bath beans made improvements to the sugar, pork pancreas, lard, spices and other ingredients in proportion to **** mixing and grinding, and heating and pressing molding, which is "pancreas". This pancreas in the lard was partially decomposed into fatty acids by fat enzymes, and then saponified by sodium carbonate into a real fatty acid soap (the main ingredient of modern soap), it can be said that the difference with the modern soap is only one step away.
So, we do not think that the ancient times are very backward, bathing and wearing clothes so funny problem, not only did not. And they also have toiletries.
Ancient people still have to undress to take a bath although it is to take a bath, but many times men and women are not the same, men outside the bath then you can casually, but bathing to pay attention to a point, must be in the river downstream, but the women are not the same, the rules are very strict in ancient China, women many times are only able to stay home to take a bath to Otherwise it is a lot of people go together to find a very private place.
Winter is definitely at home. Even in winter then is not going to find, even in ancient China in winter then is very cold, and boil water is also particularly troublesome to take a bath and not easy to change clothes, so a lot of people are not bathing, only in the summer time took a bath, although the body may stink, but this is also something that can not be helped, after all, the conditions of the ancient times is the way it is.
Wearing clothes to take a bath is a very troublesome thing, that is, the clothes are wearing on the body, they have no way to rub the bath, and the purpose of the bath is to rub out the dirt of the body, like the northeast of the words of that region, are to take off their clothes naked, and then use a towel to make a hard rubbing, after all, so long not to take a bath, to make a hard rub.
My words, I used to take a bath when wearing a panty to take a bath, but found themselves on the body is not good at all, alas, this time all to go home and take a bath.
Things: I bathed in the summer that time, because it is a small child like to bathe in the river, a lot of small children are like this, wearing clothes that just soak a bath, simply do not want to take a bath, because the summer weather is too hot, there was no air-conditioning, and watermelon is also particularly expensive, but also not very end, so a lot of times on the three or four o'clock on the river to soak in a bath, and the skin is really sunburned. That time really put the skin are tanned, but come back to the bath, because the river is not clean, soaking in the river and so on the body more itchy, must go home to take a bath, and to use the soap some.
Let the ancient people wear so many clothes on the body, how can put the clothes together to wash it, not to mention that the clothes are so dirty, will pollute the water resources, bathing is a very uncomfortable thing, so it must be to take off their own bare, put the clothes on the side, their own comfortable soak in the bath, put on the clothes to let themselves very uncomfortable. So one must strip naked, that is the real reason.
Bathing in ancient times was very troublesome, not in terms of the process, but in terms of what it meant. Today a bath is a shower, whereas in ancient times a bath was four things: bathing, bathing, washing, and showering. Shower was washing the hair, bath was washing the body, wash was washing the feet, and bath was washing the hands. In ancient times, bathing was called bathing, and its history is very long, Yin and Shang dynasties have been bathing records, Spring and Autumn even appeared specialized bathing equipment.
So do the ancients need to take off their clothes to take a bath? The answer is yes. Not to take off their clothes to bathe, and how they use the pancreas, bath beans to clean the body? Does it mean that they bathed in order to wash their clothes?
Bath beans appeared in the Wei and Jin dynasties, is a kind of powder, made from bean powder and medicine. Sun Simiao said in the "Thousand Gold Wing Fang", "clothes and fragrant bath beans, Shi Ren Guisheng, are all necessary", that is to say, at that time, whether it is the emperor or the common people, are using the bath beans. Bath beans in ancient times is a necessary bathing tool, it is very much, wash your hair, wash your face, wash your hands, wash your feet, bathing and even washing clothes can be used.
And the pancreas than the bath beans appeared later, is made of pig pancreas with some pig fat, spices, grass ash. Its appearance immediately sublimated the washing tool, but the ordinary people could not use it, only those nobles could use it, because it was very difficult to obtain the materials for making pancreas.
Extend a little, in ancient times, bathing in a variety of ways, such as bathing in the river or private baths in wooden barrels and basins, and even in the Song Dynasty appeared in the public **** bathroom. Ordinary people's private bathroom is to use wooden barrels, wooden basin, and the royal is more high-end, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Zhao's third emperor Shi Hu had built a "dragon warm pool" such as luxury private bathroom.
Do ancient people wear clothes to bathe?
How do you wash your clothes?
The ancient people wore clothes to bathe?
The reason for this illusion is probably because of the proliferation of historical costume dramas on the screen, in which the male protagonist of these crude costume idol dramas is naked in the bath, mainly to show off his six-pack abs and mermaid line.
And the female lead? Usually wearing a thin shirt. A big girl can't show her breasts and bare shoulders, right? Even show a back, or show a bit of breasts, are not sure to pass the review, how dare you show a little more ah!
So, the female lead in the TV series is wearing a skirt, or wearing a halter to take a shower, the clothes are wet, delicate body, bumpy, hidden, has been infinite reverie!
The Northern Song Dynasty, the bathhouse has appeared, young and old after a day of hard work, will go to the bathhouse to soak a bubble, to solve the lack of relaxation, relaxation, bathhouse, there are specialized rubbing bath, pinch feet, massage, knocking the back, and now not the same.
At that time, Yangzhou was the distribution center for merchants from the north and south, so the bath industry is very developed, after the bath, drink tea, play chess, listen to the song, of course, but also to do something else, the men, are the lower body thinking about life animals.
The Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Shi wrote a song that describes the rubbing of the bath, very vivid and interesting, the title is called "Dream Order - Bath":
Rubbing masters are too hard, rubbing the pain of the delicate skin of the Su Laozi, so the Su Laozi made a big pass of emotion, very interesting.
"Water Margin" in the Pan Jinlian is this bath: a large wooden barrel, filled with warm water, under the firewood burning fire, and then sprinkle a little rose petals, Pan Jinlian undressed, jumped in, not to mention how fragrant!
This is an ordinary peasant woman bathing, if Yang Guifei bathing is much more trouble, dozens of courtesans need to wait, there are responsible for taking the soap, there are responsible for rubbing the back, there are responsible for wearing clothes ...... next to the Tang Xuanzong, the eyes of the green light to appreciate.
"Journey to the West" has a spider spirit bathing clip, these seven girls are in the river wild swimming, can be said to be very bold, very unsightly!
How do these seven spider spirits wash? Let's borrow the big brother's fiery eyes to take a look:
By the Monkey King to see the light, but it is a pity that the monkey does not understand the flavor, pity!
The reason for this misunderstanding is that nowadays, ancient costume dramas have adapted a lot of ancient people's customs in order to pass the trial.
The average normal person bathing will not wear clothes, right, that is called what bathing ah, called washing clothes.
And the ancients are quite important to bathe this thing, they are not like the current people bathe every day, where there are major ceremonies or rituals must be bathed clean with clean clothes.
In ancient times, technology was not developed life, bathing is a measure of the degree of civilization of a country.
In the Middle Ages, Europeans had a history of two hundred years of "not bathing", dirty bodies were seen as closer to God, and not bathing became a symbol of holiness, and those who had enough courage not to take a bath for years would be canonized as saints.
We all know that Louis XIV, the Sun King, didn't bathe much in his life, and in fact, not only Louis XIV didn't bathe, but the whole of Europe was in the trend of not bathing at that time.
Some loyal Catholics did not bathe in order to be a "saint". They called this dirty behavior the holiest of practices. Louis XIV and the nobles of his time, even though they were beautifully dressed, no one knew that underneath the beautiful robes, there might be a few lice hiding in their pampered bodies.
Louis XIV loved ballet, when he danced sweaty, but only with a clean towel dipped in perfume to wipe the body, and then immediately put on clean clothes. This is why his lover mentioned in his memoirs that he could smell the disgusting odor of Louis XIV from ten paces away.
Think about why the West doesn't bathe. In addition to the religious factor, one of their fresh water resources is small, and secondly, bathing requires a lot of hot water, I think that with their productivity at that time, even large pots do not have, and the bronze tripod is even more so. The most they were proud of was products like glass. So what capital did they take to bathe?
First of all, use the rough words: the ancient people are more unrestrained than the modern people, especially in Jiangnan during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, usually do not wear clothes, not to mention the bath time. Wearing clothes for bathing is not the same as taking off pants and farting - superfluous?
Besides, a little more literary words: if the ancient people wear clothes to take a bath, how does the cowherd soak up the weaving maiden? If they were wearing clothes, then how did they get to the weaving maiden?
Ancient people wore clothes to bathe? I'd like to ask you where you got this "custom" from?
Ancient people are not fools, and we do not think so elegant, they are the same as us today, bathing is also bare eyes, so that is called bathing. The first thing you need to do is to wear clothes and take a bath.
Wearing clothes to take a bath is like "taking off your pants and farting", which is purely superfluous. The question must have been taken out of context by the ancient TV series.
In the costume TV series, especially when depicting the emperor's court life, the emperor and concubines in the pool wash water, are wearing clothes, like pig play spider general. Bathing is also wearing clothes, but for the movie and television drama can be audited and passed.
Reminiscent of the year Huaqing Pond, concubine bathing in the pool, warm soup to wash jade fat, mandarin ducks double play in the water, causing the king three souls to throw out. The muscle touching muscle, skin touching skin, meat to meat, exhaustive human happiness, in exchange for the beautiful sentence "the princess out of the bath".
If Tang Minghuang and Yang Yuhuan must wear a piece of clothing soaked in water, this is a bath or accidentally fall into the hot spring pool?
The bath this ordinary thing, no matter how rich and noble, Hugh high and low, the poor and rich, men and women, or princes and grandchildren, or traffickers, or the royal relatives, or lead the car to sell the pulp of the generation;
No matter the summer and business, the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Qin and the two Han Dynasty, the Roman Empire, ancient Persia, the ancient state of Loulan, Ottoman, through the East and West, through the ages, the bathers, are summarized in two words!
This is the first time I've ever seen a person with a bare butt!