As an adult, I should know that bathing is a great pleasure in life, but not all of it. When I was in middle school, the school had bathing facilities. Simple as it is, there is enough hot and cold water. But the school still has strict rules that you must take a bath at least once every three days. This provision is quite different from the "Han Law" that "officials must take five days off". Taking five days off is a day off, not your own business. The school stipulates that it is compulsory to take a bath every three days, and there are also ways to punish it. There is a sign-in book in the shower room, and the published list of three times not taking a shower. Those who still don't regret it will be assigned to supervise the implementation at the designated time. As far as I know, many signatories don't take a shower, just like forging documents; The list has never been published, and no one has been naked in public. The decree has become a document.
We in China have always regarded bathing as a major event. It has been said since ancient times that bathing is the way to worship God. The joy of Ceng Dian's life lies in "bathing in interpretation". Just because it is a big event, it seems that it can't be regarded as a part of daily life. In the Tang dynasty, there were still people who "lost their admiration in mourning and did not bathe for three years." Wang Meng of the Jin Dynasty asked questions, but Kan Kan talked about them, which proved that he often didn't take a bath. Bai Juyi's poem "If you take a bath today, you will lose a lot of weight", which has both poetic value and disciplinary value.
Old-style houses, though deep-seated, rarely have special bathrooms. You can squat in a big wooden basin and spill bath soup all over the floor, and you will be satisfied. In Peiping, there are a lot of bathhouses in the streets. "Soup is sung only when the golden rooster is hot, and the red sun is full." There are also some so-called advanced ones, such as "rising to the west", but many people dare not take them, not necessarily because Mi Fei is "neat and doesn't share towels with others" or because of high medical expenses. "The bag is full of water in the morning and water in the bag at night." I'm afraid that water is not only covered with water, but also something may enter the skin. I know that it is convenient to take a bath, tap my back, pinch my feet, get a pedicure, get a haircut, eat and sleep on a high pillow in bathhouses in some cities, but some timid people are still looking forward to it and would rather go home and squat in that big wooden basin. Modern family toilets are of course convenient, but unfortunately they are suspected of being "westernized" and are not inherent in our country. However, we also need not be too complacent. Westerners take a bath in the morning, and it is very late to take a bath twice a day at night. The magnificent public bathroom of Lacerra, the Roman emperor, can accommodate 16000 people at the same time, which is only a beautiful story in history. Those bathrooms have long been destroyed by barbarian invasion, and the abstinence trend of early Christianity has also destroyed the virtue of bathing. Medieval monks paid little attention to their cleanliness. "Taking a bath with virtue is better than taking a bath with water" (the inscription on the Xuan bath plate) is probably the truth they believe in. Modern European convent schools still have some medieval heritage. Girls can only take a bath once every two weeks, and when they take a bath, they have to carry a robe below the knee as a bathrobe. There is a special way to undress so that they can't see their bodies! The "Saturday Night Bath" in Victorian England is one of the daily life items of ordinary people. Ordinary days are probably "not suitable for bathing".
Buddhist monks in our country also have regulations on bathing. Please read "Six Rules for a Hundred Feet": "Take out the bath utensils on one side, unbutton your coat, take off your skirt first, and wrap your feet around your body before you can tie your bath skirt and fold your pants into the basket". Although it is not clear how often it is washed, the strict rules of undressing grade are similar to those of medieval Christian churches.
In some cases, naked exercise is necessary, and bathing is one of them. It doesn't hurt to look at your body in a short time, in a proper place, or even after washing. If nudity is evil, what's so good about The Devil in Prada?
Li (Confucian cloud): "Confucianism has a bath and a bath." I think people's body and mind should be kept clean and parallel.