Why do concubines often take a bath? First, the princess belongs to the emperor, so she must not look dirty and make the emperor unhappy. Because the princess also represents the dignity of the royal family and her image is very important, so the princess will often take a bath. Secondly, taking a bath is a very comfortable thing. According to Sun, when the imperial concubine takes a bath, she doesn't have to do it herself at all. She was attended by eunuchs and maids. Bathing itself is very tiring, and there are people waiting on it. Why not? Thirdly, bathing can also be used as a recreational activity. In ancient times, it was different from now. There are relatively few recreational activities. Concubines are bored in the palace and can't leave the palace casually. So bathing can really be regarded as an entertainment activity.
Taking a bath for concubines is really complicated, just like Empress Dowager Cixi has to cook hundreds of dishes at a meal. Eunuchs are responsible for all kinds of things, such as testing the water temperature, putting petals in the water and other nutrients that have excellent effects on the skin, and rubbing the back. Some concubines are extremely loved by the emperor, and even take a bath with milk. The only purpose is to make their skin smoother and take good care of themselves.
During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Cheng of Han once peeked at his concubine Zhao Hede, that is, Zhao's sister taking a bath. Emperor Han Chengdi was fascinated, so he loved Zhao Hede.
Ordinary people take a bath, basically only for one purpose, that is, to remove the dust and keep it clean. Since it is for neatness, it is impossible to take a shower with clothes on. It feels strange. If you wear clothes, the stains on your body are difficult to wash off and it is very uncomfortable to wash. Isn't it a sin for yourself?
In fact, the bathing of the ancients is quite similar to that of our modern people, except that the bathing tools used are different. Ancient people usually bathed in their own homes, especially women. Bathing tools are usually wooden pots or very large wooden barrels, which can be washed with hot water. Of course, if the conditions at home are good, you can also put something good for your skin in the water, just like a royal woman.
Public bathrooms were popular in Yuan Dynasty, and many people liked to take a bath in the bathroom, mainly men. At the same time, the public bathroom at that time was not only used for bathing, but also had many other functions, such as shaving and pedicure, which felt more than our modern public bathroom.
In the Ming Dynasty, soaking in hot springs became popular.
The ancients took a bath, one for cleaning and the other for important things to happen in many cases. For example, the emperor will go to the temple to pay homage tomorrow, and take a bath by himself today, and the accompanying concubines will also take a bath, which is more solemn.
The daughter of an ordinary family will get married tomorrow, take a shower today, put on new clothes tomorrow and be a bride happily. Some wealthy families really go to hot springs for fun, but this can't be said to be a real bath. Some baths are more advanced, for health and health, such as Empress Dowager Cixi.
There is no doubt that the ancients must have bathed naked.
Bathing is subtle and elegant, and it purifies the body. When people talk, they wash away dust and rub away mud. Because people will naturally feel uncomfortable if they don't take a bath for a long time. So bathing is a process of direct contact with the skin. Do you think you can do it without taking off your clothes?
Whether in ancient feudal society or modern civilized society, it is an indisputable fact that men and women should take off their clothes when taking a shower. Bathing in ancient times was much simpler and the conditions were better than in modern times. It was done in a vat. It is also a good choice to go to Yehegou "wild bubble" to bathe in nature unconditionally. Because there were no toiletries in ancient times, rice washing water, plant ash and Gleditsia sinensis were generally used, which could not only decontaminate but also have health care functions.
Ancient women were very particular about personal hygiene, basically washing their hair every three days and taking a bath every five days. When you take a shower, you are usually naked, and you are by no means dressed to take a shower in the film and television works. Especially in the Tang dynasty, women were incompetent, and that was the era of virtue. Women are particularly open-minded, and women with bare breasts and backs are beautiful, that is to say, the streets are full of naked women, not to mention taking a bath! It's usually so open, how can you get dressed if you are her shower?
The absolute right thing is nudity. Others don't say that it is a noble figure like Empress Dowager Cixi who has to wait on so many maids in one bath. You said that Empress Dowager Cixi was not afraid to look naked, let alone ordinary people! Therefore, I personally think that ancient people were naked in the shower. Besides, it's not convenient to wash clothes. Dressing is not a bath, it's laundry! Let's think about whether this is what you said and I'm telling the truth.
Ancient people generally took a bath in two situations. The first is to simply remove dirt and stains from their bodies, and the second is to take off their clothes before attending major sacrificial activities. Next, let's take a look at whether to take a bath in these two cases!
One, the body itches or washes the dirt and stains on the body, and takes a bath!
Modern people will go to the bathhouse to take a bath if they are itchy or stained. Bathing with a water heater at home is also very comfortable. However, whether they go to the bathhouse or take a bath at home, they will take off their clothes and take a bath. Although the ancient people were not as good as us modern people, they were not as unsanitary as we thought. Ancient people usually prepared a bath bucket at home, undressed in a bucket of hot water and soaked in it, which was clean and comfortable.
If you go into the bathtub with clothes on, you will come out covered in water. Would you do that? I think the answer is definitely no! You wouldn't even do that. Of course the ancients wouldn't do that!
Second, take a shower before participating in major sacrificial activities!
In order to show respect for the gods of heaven and earth, the ancients usually fasted and bathed before offering sacrifices. Fasting has nothing to do with this topic, so I won't discuss it in depth. Nothing more than vegetarianism, abstinence and so on. And bathing is an aromatherapy bath before sacrifice. You can't worship the god of heaven and earth with the filth of the world, but you will usually put on clean clothes after bathing, so take off your clothes before bathing!
First of all, it is necessary to answer you that in ancient times, you didn't wear clothes when taking a bath.
People often wonder, how did you bathe and wash your hair without shower gel and shampoo in ancient times? Let's talk about how ancient people in China used toiletries and shampoo. At that time, primitive people only bathed in the river, and of course there was nothing comfortable and soft. Gradually, in the process of washing, they found that some dirt was rubbed on their hands or bodies, and then washed away with clear water, which was cleaner than before. So the soil became the earliest cleaner. When the hands are stained with oil, rub them with soil and then rinse them with clear water, and the oil can be easily removed. Even now, we rub soil to remove oil stains from gasoline, diesel and animals.
Subsequently, people discovered the original alkali and learned to boil it. Ancestors gradually developed the habit of taking a bath in their lives. "Bathing" was recorded in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen in Shang and Zhou Dynasties at the latest. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, bathing etiquette was gradually customized. Fasting and bathing has always been an important part of sacrificial ceremonies in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it is managed by full-time officials. This was recorded in Zhou Li. During the Zhou dynasty, people used rice washing water to bathe and decontaminate. It is said that it can not only decontaminate, but also has excellent health care function. This is a cheap and common early bath water. If you are interested, you can find a cloth bag, put some starch, bran and chaff under the faucet of the bathtub, then put hot water in it, and put a full bath, which can cure low back pain, cold hands and feet, rough skin and chilblain.
According to written records, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, people washed clothes and washed their hair with Gleditsia sinensis, including plant ash and Taomi water. In the Western Jin Dynasty, people began to use a kind of bath bean, which was mainly made of bean powder mixed with various drugs, which had the effect of making skin smooth and moist and preventing skin diseases. Its ingredients are all natural raw materials, which can be said to be the earliest facial cleanser.
At that time, people laughed at a man who was rustic, lacked good upbringing and didn't understand the hygiene habits of the upper class. He often said that he "didn't know how to wash beans". For example, Wang Dun at the turn of the Jin Dynasty, because he was a minister of rebellion, made everyone disgusted, so there was a "joke" widely circulated, saying that when Wang Dungang married the princess as her husband, she went to the toilet, and the princess's handmaiden gave him bath beans in a glass bowl to clean her hands. As a result, Wang Dun mistook bath beans for fried noodles and poured them into a golden basin to wash his hands, just like drinking tea.
Although it was just a joke, it showed that the bath bean "soap" had appeared at that time. "Bath bean" is an advanced sanitary cleaning product invented in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Before that, when people washed their hands, the only means to remove oil stains were rice soup, noodle soup and natural saponin. This period is also the era of "spice discovery" in the history of China. All kinds of spices from the western regions and the south arrived in the Central Plains, which made aristocratic life look brand-new. The biggest feature of bath beans is that they are mixed with precious spices and emit elegant fragrance. It is worth noting that the emergence and development of bath beans seems to be related to the prosperity of foreign spice trade since the Han Dynasty.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was very common for the rich to use soap. For example, Jin Ping Mei mentioned jasmine soap for washing face, and A Dream of Red Mansions also mentioned soap for washing hands in the morning. It should be noted that the ancient "bath beans" did not completely disappear. A unique medicated soap, specifically medicated soap, also known as sandalwood soap, appeared in the court of Qing Dynasty according to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. This kind of soap was deeply loved by Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi. It is not only fragrant, but also has the functions of descaling, beautifying, relieving itching and moistening skin. Especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the folk improved bath beans, and the ingredients such as sugar, pig pancreas, lard and spices were mixed and ground in proportion, and heated and pressed to form, which was called "pancreas". The lard in the pancreas is partially decomposed into fatty acids by lipase, and then saponified by sodium carbonate into real fatty acid soap (the main component of modern soap), which can be said to be only one step away from modern soap.
Therefore, don't think that ancient times were backward and there was no such funny problem as bathing and dressing. They also have cosmetics.
Ancient people still had to take off their clothes when taking a bath. Although bathing was necessary, many times men and women were different. Men can bathe outside at will, but it should be noted that bathing must be in the lower reaches of the river, while women are different. In ancient China, the rules were very strict. Women could only stay at home and take a bath, otherwise many people would go to a very secret place together.
They must all be at home in winter. Even in winter, it was very cold in ancient China. It was particularly troublesome to take a bath with boiling water and it was not easy to change clothes, so many people didn't take a bath. Only in summer, although they might stink, there was nothing they could do. After all, this was the ancient condition.
It is a very troublesome thing to take a bath with clothes on, that is, you can't take a bath with clothes on, but the purpose of taking a bath is to rub out the dirty things on your body. Like that area in the northeast, you have to take off your clothes and wipe them hard with a towel. After all, you have to rub hard without taking a shower for so long.
In my opinion, I used to take a bath in my underwear, but I found it was not good at all. Well, I have to go home and take a bath at this time.
Things: I take a bath at that time in summer, because children like to take a bath in the river. Many children are like this. They take a shower when they get dressed, and they don't want to take a shower at all. Because it was too hot in summer, there was no air conditioning at that time, and watermelon was particularly expensive, which didn't end well. So I often go to the river to take a bath at three or four o'clock. At that time, my skin was really tanned, but I still have to take a bath when I come back.
Let the ancients wear so many clothes, how can they wash them together? Besides, clothes are so dirty that they will pollute water resources. It is difficult to take a bath, so you must take off your clothes, put your clothes aside, take a comfortable bath, and put on your clothes to make yourself uncomfortable. So you have to take off your clothes. That's the real reason.
Bathing in ancient times was very troublesome, not a process, but a meaning. Now bathing is bathing. In ancient times, bathing was four things: bathing, bathing and bathing. Bathing is washing your hair, bathing is washing your body, washing your feet, and bathing is washing your hands. In ancient times, bathing was called bathing and had a very long history. Bathing was recorded in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and even special bathing equipment appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period.
So did the ancients need to take off their clothes when they took a shower? The answer is yes. How can they wash their bodies with pancreas and bath beans without undressing? Do they bathe and wash clothes?
Bath bean appeared in Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is a kind of powder, made of bean powder and medicine. Sun Simiao once said in "A Thousand Daughters' Wings" that "it's all what you want to bathe in bean clothes, to be an official and to be enlightened", that is to say, both the emperor and civilians used bath beans at that time. Bath bean is an indispensable bathing tool in ancient times, which has many functions, such as washing hair, face, hands, feet, bathing and even washing clothes.
Pancreas appeared later than bath beans, and it was made of pig pancreas with some pig fat, spices and plant ash. Its appearance immediately sublimated the washing tool, but it was not used by ordinary people, only those nobles could use it, because the materials for making pancreas were hard to obtain.
To extend, there were many ways to take a bath in ancient times, such as taking a bath in a river or a private bathroom with a barrel or washbasin, and even a public bathroom appeared in the Song Dynasty. Ordinary people's private bathrooms use wooden barrels and pots, and the royal family is relatively high-end Shi Hu, the third emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the late Zhao Dynasty, once built a luxurious private bathroom similar to Longwenchi.
Did ancient people take a shower and get dressed?
How to wash clothes? Do you want to do laundry together?
The reason for this illusion is probably because of the historical dramas of ancient costumes that fill the screen. In these shoddy costume dramas, the male host takes a bath with bare arms, mainly to show off six-pack abdominal muscles and mermaid line.
What about the hostess? Usually wearing a thin shirt. Girls can't show their breasts topless, can they? Even showing a back or a small chest may not pass the trial, how dare you show more!
Therefore, the women in TV dramas all wear skirts or suspenders to take a shower. Their clothes are all wet, and their bodies are graceful, concave and convex, looming, which has made people think infinitely!
During the Northern Song Dynasty, bathhouses appeared. After a hard day's work, men, women and children will take a bath in the bathhouse to relieve fatigue and relax. There are special people in the bathhouse to rub their feet, massage their feet and knock on their backs, just like now.
At that time, Yangzhou was a distribution center for merchants from the north and the south, so the bathing industry was very developed. After taking a bath, we drank tea, played chess, listened to music and of course did other things. A man is an animal who thinks about life in his lower body.
Su Shi, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote a sentence, which is very vivid and interesting. The topic is "Dream, Take a Bath":
The master used too much force and rubbed against Master Su's delicate skin. Master Su was greatly impressed and very interesting.
In Water Margin, Pan Jinlian takes a bath like this: a big wooden barrel filled with warm water, with firewood burning underneath and a little rose petals scattered. Pan Jinlian took off his clothes and jumped in, not to mention how fragrant it was!
This is an ordinary peasant woman taking a bath. If Yang Guifei takes a bath, it will be much more trouble. She needs dozens of maids to serve her. Some are responsible for taking soap, some are responsible for rubbing her back, and some are responsible for dressing ... There may be Tang Xuanzong next to her, admiring it with green eyes.
There is a fragment of spider essence taking a bath in Journey to the West. The seven girls are swimming wildly in the river. It can be said that they are bold and indecent!
How to wash these seven kinds of spider essence? Did you get dressed and wash? Let's take a look at the critical eyes of the master elder brother:
The Monkey King saw all this. Unfortunately, monkeys don't understand amorous feelings. What a pity!
The reason for this misunderstanding is that costume dramas have adapted many ancient customs in order to pass the trial.
Generally, normal people don't wear clothes in the shower. What is that? This is called washing clothes.
And the ancients attached great importance to bathing. They don't bathe every day like people do now, and they have to wear clean clothes to bathe in major ceremonies or sacrificial ceremonies.
In ancient times, when science and technology were underdeveloped, bathing was the standard to measure a country's civilization.
In the Middle Ages, Europeans had a history of "no bathing" for 200 years. A dirty body is regarded as closer to God, and not taking a bath becomes a sacred symbol. Those who are brave enough not to take a bath for many years are even canonized as saints.
As we all know, Louis XIV, the king of the sun, didn't bathe much all his life. In fact, Louis XIV was not the only one who didn't take a bath at that time. At that time, it was popular all over Europe.
Some loyal Catholics don't bathe all their lives in order to be "saints". This dirty behavior is called the most sacred practice by them. Louis XIV and the nobles at that time, even though they were well dressed and noble, no one knew that there might be some pampered lice hidden under that gorgeous robe.
Louis XIV loved ballet. When he dances freely, he just wipes his body with clean towels and perfume, and then puts on clean and elegant clothes. Therefore, his lover once mentioned in his memoirs that he could smell the disgusting smell of Louis XIV ten steps away.
Think about why Sybil doesn't take a shower. In addition to religious factors, one is the lack of fresh water resources, and the other is the need for a lot of hot water for bathing. I think with their productivity at that time, they didn't even have a tripod, let alone a bronze tripod. They are most proud of glass. So what capital do they take to bathe?
Use rude words first: ancient people are more bold than modern people, especially in Jiangnan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. They usually wear no clothes, let alone take a shower. Getting dressed in the shower is not the same as taking off your pants and farting-isn't it unnecessary?
Let's talk about literature and art: if ancient people all wore clothes and bathed, how did Cowherd get to Weaver Girl? What if Yong Dong got the seven fairies?
Did the ancients bathe and dress? Where did this custom come from?
The ancients were not fools, nor were they as elegant as we thought. As we do today, they bathe naked, which is called bathing. Get dressed and take a shower, or you're crazy or sick.
Dressing and bathing is like "taking off your pants and farting", which is completely unnecessary. Presumably, the topic is biased by the costume TV series.
In costume TV series, especially when describing the life of the emperor's court, the emperor and his concubine wash water in the pool, and both wear clothes, just like Zhu Bajie playing spider essence. Bathing and dressing, but it can be approved for film and television dramas.
Looking back at Huaqing Pool, the imperial concubine bathed in the pool, warmed the soup and washed the jade fat, and the mandarin duck played in the water, which provoked the king to throw three souls and seven souls. Muscle touches muscle, skin touches skin, and meat touches meat. Elaborating the happiness of the world, in exchange for a good sentence of "the imperial concubine takes a bath".
If Tang He wants to get dressed and soak in the water, are they taking a bath or accidentally falling into the hot spring pool?
Bathing is an ordinary thing, not to mention wealth, not to mention high and low, rich and poor, men and women, or children and grandchildren, or pawns of vendors, or royalty, or people who sell pulp in cars;
No matter Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Qin and Han Dynasties, ancient Persia of Roman Empire and Osman of Loulan ancient country, they all run through the east and west. Throughout the ages, all swimmers can be summed up in two words-Guang Mao!