Structure of public bathhouses in Japan:

The bathhouse is divided into two parts. The virgin and the woman turn left or right at the entrance respectively. Of course, take off your shoes when you take a shower. In order to prevent theft, a shoe box was installed on the wall. In the past, the keys to shoe boxes were mostly big wooden keys.

After taking off the shoes and opening the door, I came to a big dressing room with a bathtub inside. There is a high platform near the door, on which the bathhouse staff can sit. This platform is called "Fantai" (meaning the platform on duty in Japan). When the staff sits on the stage to collect fees, they can keep an eye on the locker room to prevent thieves from entering and leaving, so that customers can take a bath in a comfortable mood.

However, people sitting on the stage can see both sides at the same time. When China students who came to Japan first went to Qiantang, they were not used to taking off their clothes under the eyes of the opposite sex, but they didn't care when they saw the Japanese, so they gradually got used to it. Customers with valuables can use the cabinet. There used to be wooden cabinets, but now they have almost disappeared, replaced by metal cabinets.

The most striking thing in public bathhouses is the fresco in the bathroom. Although there are various patterns, most of them are landscape paintings, especially Mount Fuji. The murals in Tokyo bathhouse are painted by special people, and the tiles are painted with scenery and stories. Some bathhouses have a small Japanese garden outside the dressing room, which is a unique design that allows customers to spend their bath time happily.

Public bathhouses generally wash their bodies and hair in special places, and soap bubbles and towels cannot be brought into the bath. Even in the cold winter, if you want to take a bath first, you should wash your body first out of courtesy.

In order to get in and out of the bathtub conveniently, you can put your washbasin and soap at the faucet until you have finished taking a bath. When walking in the bathroom, both men and women cover their lower bodies with towels, which is a small concern when many people take a shower together. If you borrow washbasins and chairs from the bathhouse, you should wash them before returning them.

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Precautions for bathing:

Don't rub it hard Too hard in the shower. From the physiological point of view of the skin, this is unsanitary and harmful to the skin. Everyone knows that there is a stratum corneum on the skin surface, and the cells in the stratum corneum contain keratin. It helps to reduce water evaporation and even absorb water to keep skin moist.

The stratum corneum is generally between 10 and 40 microns. Excessive removal of the stratum corneum will cause the stratum corneum to become very thin, the skin will be more sensitive, and serious red blood will appear.

The skin surface is a stratum corneum composed of completely keratinized keratinocytes. Keratinocytes are constantly differentiated from basal cells and gradually migrate to the stratum corneum through the spinous layer and granular layer. They are flat and seedless, and constantly disintegrate and fall off, forming so-called "dander". The time of this evolutionary process is called epidermal growth cycle, which takes about 3 to 4 weeks, and is also called epidermal renewal rate.

The stratum corneum is isomorphic to the lipid film on the epidermis formed by emulsification of sebum and water on its surface, forming the outermost barrier protection layer of the skin, which plays a very important role.

On the one hand, it protects all kinds of tissues and organs in the body from all kinds of damage from the external environment, such as mechanical damage such as friction, pulling, squeezing and collision, physical damage such as electric shock, light and magnetic sound, and chemical damage such as acid and alkali corrosion, especially the dense stratum corneum can effectively prevent bacteria and viruses with a diameter exceeding 200nm from entering the skin.

In addition, the free fatty acids in the lipid membrane on the skin surface make the pH value of the skin surface acidic, which inhibits the growth of many bacteria, thus protecting the body from microbial invasion.

On the other hand, the semi-permeable membrane of stratum corneum can well prevent the loss of nutrients in the body. Adults lose about 240 ~ 480 ml of water through the skin every day, but if the cuticle is removed, the water loss will increase by more than 10 times.

It can be seen that when we take a bath, scrubbing the skin with a rubbing towel too hard will often make the keratinocytes that have not been completely keratinized fall off prematurely, or even the cuticle completely fall off, exposing the bright red granular layer or spinous layer skin, which greatly weakens the barrier protection of the skin, and the body is easily damaged by the external environment, and in the long run, it is easy to accelerate the aging of the skin, so it is best not to use too much force when taking a bath.

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