Legend has it that the Japanese god of medical treatment, Shohiko Meishin, discovered the hot springs in Dogo in ancient times, so it is evident that the Japanese were able to utilize the hot springs from a very early stage. However, the formation of Japanese hot spring culture is objectively influenced by the Chinese hot spring culture and the result of Japanese creation. The Japanese call hot springs "yu", which means hot water or boiling water, and the word comes from China. According to legend, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there is a special tray for bathing, called "soup plate", the plate is engraved with the inscription "Gou Ri Xin, and new, new, new, new" and so on, but unfortunately, the soup plate has long been lost, and only to the descendants of the "soup plate Kong Ding have said that the work, and now there is no vessel to save their words. Today, there is no such thing as its words" (Li Shangyin, "Han Tablet") sigh of regret. Japanese people believe that "bubble soup" that is, bathing hot springs, not only can clean the body, but also can wash away the mental anguish, "a wash face upright, two wash all diseases," not only can relieve physical pain, but also can treat mental illness. When bathing, people relax their bodies, release their minds, and reach a realm of returning to the basics through honesty and openness. Japan from the Kamakura, Muromachi era on the emergence of the "soup house", to the Edo period and the Meiji era, "money soup" has become an indispensable part of the daily life of the community at large, there are more than 2,500 public **** baths in Tokyo, the Japanese people at home with the bathing equipment The Japanese had bathing facilities in their homes, but they still liked to go to the "money baths". While soaking in the hot springs, while relaxing and resting, while exchanging information, reflecting the Japanese human nature in the most characteristic sense of community, becoming a unique "money soup culture".
China's hot spring culture has a long history. In ancient times, our working people worshipped Nongfu and Ding Qian as the "God of Hot Spring". China's folk have a lot of worship "soup god" custom, the Hani people baby born three days with hot springs "wash three"; Hubei province, jingshan county people for the baby is not full of hot springs bath; Shandong linyi hot springs near the masses, generations of people on the ching ming festival held for three days! "Tangtou big rally", is a sea of people, the four townships converge, according to legend, this day, the soup God manifests itself, before the fifth night to drink soup spring water can be "timid disease elimination"; in the Yunnan Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, they are in the Spring Festival, the third day, all gathered in Dengzhi Hot Spring, singing and dancing in the grand hot springs, and the hot springs. Songs and dances held a grand hot springs song, men and women, young and old bath hall will be.
China has 3159 hot springs, widely distributed, complete type, including almost all types of hot springs in the world. "The creation of a unique love, geothermal hot springs flow boiling water; searching for the winning scenery, building high blue trees reflecting the Tangshan", after 4,000 years of development of these precious geothermal resources, the land of God everywhere blooming gorgeous hot springs culture flowers. "Shenlong septic quiet, Tangchi flow big river, the ground refining Zhu fire, sand beside the release of vegetarian smoke, boiling beads jumping bright moon, bright mirror containing the middle sky", this is the great poet Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty on the hot springs in Hubei Yingcheng praise poem; "who burned Dan yellow flame, burned this jade pool water. Guests come to unravel the belt, ten thousand robberies to pay a wash," which is the great geometer Zhu Xi on Mount Lushan Huanglong hot springs praise poem; "thirty-six peaks high in the sky, Qiongtai Yaoyu storage immortals, Songyang if and Huangshan, still owe the sand a spring," this is the people of Mount Huangshan hot springs is a wonderful evaluation. China's hot spring culture is the biggest feature is scattered in our country has a long history of more than 2,000 years is known as "a side of the overview" of the local records, these local records of the discovery of hot springs in a certain place, water quality characteristics, myths and legends, poems and couplets, hot springs efficacy, informative and rich, scientific, it is an encyclopedia of China's hot spring culture. China's hot spring culture encyclopedia, such as reading the "Tianshui County" we can know that Gansu Province, Wushan hot springs are extremely valuable radon springs at home and abroad, Wushan near Zhuge six out of the Qishan Castle, Jieting the ancient battlefield, the Han Flying General Li Guang's tomb, close to the people known as "Oriental Sculpture Museum" of the Mazishan Grottoes, is a fascinating tourist attraction. When we read the "Fuzhou Zhi" contained in the Southern Song Dynasty famous prime minister Li Gang's hot springs poem "Jade Pond Golden House bathing Lanfang, thousands of years ago, the first soup of Huaqing, like this spring watering the sick old man, might as well be more Lychee Township," we can not help but intoxicated in the Lychee bush hot springs win, know that the "pseudo-min Tendai two years, the Chamchung sent its country of Jin Si Polo To Dori, from time to time all over the body scabies, visit and bathe, a few days that is convalescent", visible Chinese hot springs health treatment function in the world is reputable. China is a big country of poetry, local history and is our unique cultural heritage, a vast sea of hot springs poetry and local history of hot springs recorded treasures, is China's hot springs culture bijou, is the rest of the world no or lack of. China's depiction of the hot springs of elite culture and popular culture coexist, reflecting each other, colorful forms of literature and art, which is another feature of China's hot spring culture.
China is an ancient country with five thousand years of civilization, the Chinese people are hard-working, intelligent, creative, good at using hot springs, the use of hot springs is all-round: the Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian's "Huaqing Palace" on the "wine mantle, a hundred buildings, the Palace before the willow temple flowers. Inside the garden divided into warm water, mid-February has been into the melon", our working people in the Tang Dynasty know how to use the hot springs planted fruits and melons; some counties also use hot spring watering, so that the rice is ripe for three times a year; Hunan people use the ash soup hot spring water to raise the taste of ducks; Liaoning people with the Xingcheng five springs to the women to drink, drink can pass the menstruation and breast milk, blood alleviation of pain; the Tang Dynasty painter Han Huang's daughter suffered from a malady! Tang Dynasty painter Han Huang's daughter suffered from a malady, cured by bathing in Nanjing Tangshan hot spring water, in order to thank the "divine springs" Han Huang's daughter's dowry of money also donated to build the "Shengtang Yanxiangshou Temple", which can be seen in the Chinese on the hot springs of the complex is how deep! The use of hot springs can be said to have reached a high level. "Spring bath, rising sun solid off. Summer bath, summer temperature can be dispelled. Autumn bath, lungs and intestines. Winter bathing pool, dantian warm burning." The most brilliant achievement of China's utilization of hot springs is the creation of spiked hot springs --- "Chinese soup". Our ancestors added treated ganoderma lucidum, aloe vera, sanya, ginseng, chrysanthemum, milk, wine and vinegar to the hot spring water ...... People bathed in it, and it had a very good effect on healing and health. This is the inheritance of China's Spring and Autumn period of the "Huang Di Nei Jing", "Su Wen", "Golden Chamber Essentials" of the traditional medical achievements of the great creation. Qu Yuan "Li Sao" has the cloud "bath orchid soup RuMuFang", soak in the spice hot springs, in the surroundings of the shade of flowers and trees, springs and stones flow springs, the bright moon between the pines of the unity of man and nature, healing and health, the joy of its, as the ancients in the hot springs of Ruzhou, Henan Province, soak immersed in chrysanthemums, ginseng soup to restore the vitality of the poem written after the," Kongdong mountain secret Yangchun, diarrhea for hot springs to Guangtang. To relieve the disease of ginseng and chrysanthemum water, remove the dirt and evil ugly orchid soup. The source draws the marrow of Kun Yuan Yuan muddy, and the gas snatches the essence of inflammation from its own fragrance. Ten thousand like Huaqing bath consort, a body of cream sores of the people." Chinese soup cured millions of patients, for people to prolong their lives and set up a monumental feat, 600 years ago, the Ming Dynasty, three insurance eunuch Zheng He seven to the West China Sea, but also let the "Chinese soup" in foreign countries to show the power of a time with Zheng He and listed in the eunuch Wang Jinghong in Southeast Asia with flowers and plants added to the warmth of the soup to save a lot of local people, and was generally praised by the people of Southeast Asia, even by the people of Southeast Asia, and the people of Southeast Asia. By the Southeast Asian people generally praised, even with the hot springs country called, to "soup rule" world-renowned Japan, also said "Chinese soup" is really remarkable. "Chinese soup" is the essence of Chinese spa culture.