In Japan, it was once a very common phenomenon for men and women to bathe together. /Cartoon screenshot
Is there anyone in the world who is more "bathing like life" than people in Northeast China? If there is
, it must be Japanese. As the Japanese saying goes, "Drink 3 wines and take 3 baths." It means that you have to take 3 baths in a day, and you don't have to take scents and you can't go out.
What is even more puzzling is that Japanese people are not only willing to spend time on bathing, but also "wild" is completely different from gender. When I was a child, I was confused when I watched "Cherry Maruko": Hey, how could Maruko take a bath with his father and grandfather?
Later, as I saw the plot of "father and son bathing together" in more and more Japanese dramas and animes, I realized that Japan's "dad bathing" is a unique way for fathers to participate in parenting. Taking children to bath together is equivalent to reducing the burden of housework for mothers in disguise.
Japan's "Dad Bath" is a unique way for fathers to participate in parenting. /Cartoon screenshot
From the little thing about taking a bath, we can also see that in Japanese culture, the concept of "there is a difference between men and women" is not that strong. In Japan, it was once a very common phenomenon for men and women to bathe together. Men, women, young and old must "meet sincerely" in the bathtub, and must not "carry private goods (underwear)".
Public baths in Japan can be traced back to the Heian period (8th to 12th century AD).
At first, the bath pool was a place for monks and monks to bathe, because the Buddhist scripture "Greenhouse Sutra" records: "Soup bathing can accumulate merit, eliminate seven diseases, and obtain seven blessings." At that time, the temples would also provide bathing services for people with illness to help them get rid of their illnesses. Later, this custom evolved into a public bath in Japan.
Entered Edo period (17th to 19th century AD), and a large-scale qian soup (soup, refers to hot water; qian soup, refers to paid bathhouses) was built across Japan. If you don’t have a bathroom at home, you can go to the public bathhouse to take a bath.
16th century Portuguese missionary Louis Floyce once wrote in " Japanese European Comparative Culture " that Japanese men and women gather in public baths to bathe together; while Europeans pay special attention to privacy when taking a bath.
Japanese men and women gather in public baths to take a bath together. /Ukiyoe
For the Japanese in the Edo era, money soup is not only a bathhouse, but also a social and entertainment place for the general public. People chat and listen to stories while taking a bath, and exchange information. Not in a good mood? You can spend money to find a "soup girl" to take a bath.
For the sake of maintaining social customs, in 1657, Edo Shogunate wanted to ban "mixed bathing for men and women", but the result was always "there are policies from above and countermeasures from below." For example, although the bathhouse will add a partition on the water surface, under the water surface, men and women will still "come around" at will.
According to literature records, as of 1810, Edo (Today's Tokyo) had 523 wealthy soups.
It was not until Meiji Restoration that the money-stool culture of men and women bathing began to decline.
1853, after the black ship incident, Japan was forced to open its national door. After the Americans broke into Tokyo Bay , they were shocked by the Japanese mixed bathing culture of men and women. Maxiu Perry, the commander of the United States East India Fleet and the "father of the steamship navy", recorded in "Japan Expedition": "The morality of the residents of this city is quite doubtful."
Although the bathing site will add a partition on the water surface, under the water surface, men and women will still "stop the scene" at will and secretly go to Chen Cang. / Stills of " Hot Love "
In order to align with Western culture, in the fifth year of Meiji, Tokyo Prefecture issued a ban - prohibiting mixed baths for men and women.
However, after entering the 20th century, Japan's money-stolen culture began to flourish again. By 1968, there were nearly 20,000 money-stolen products nationwide.
. Robert Neff, a reporter from the Tokyo Station of the American Economic News "Business Week", once recorded the surprise of seeing mixed baths when he first came to Japan when he was a teenager. "As soon as he entered the locker room, he saw three naked women standing there. He was shocked and was so embarrassed that I immediately escaped. I had no idea that there was still a mixed bath."
Why can Japanese people not mind mixed bathing between men and women? This is because in Japan's long history, there has never been a real "sexual taboo". From the primitive era to the 14th century, the sexual freedom in Japanese society was extraordinary, without the cultural concept of "men and women are not close to each other" and sexual repression.
In the week , the Japanese mixed bathing culture even represents a more progressive "nude concept".
Nowadays, there are very few mixed bathing between men and women. / " Daytime Bathhouse Wine " Stills
is not ashamed of sex and does not feel pornographic because of mixed bathing, but also because Japanese gender culture advocates " Yin and Yang roots ". And mixed bathing is the unity of yin and yang, and nature The manifestation of harmony.
However, since this century, Japan's mixed bathing culture has begun to decline. Nowadays, there are very few mixed bathing phenomena for men and women.
Due to the rise of female consciousness, more and more girls have begun to feel uneasy about the "lustful eyes" in public bathrooms, and realize that the fighting and fighting between strange men and women in the bathing pools in the past may also be a kind of harassment.
In November 2021, a veteran hot spring hotel in Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan launched an event called "Wearing clothes and taking baths". Boys must wear shorts, and women need to wear off-shoulder dresses. But the feedback from customers is not very good, "It's really uncomfortable to wear clothes and take baths."
It seems that men and women are the best choice.
Reference:
Zhang Hongjie | A brief reading of Japanese history
Li Zhaozhong | What is the ancient style of mixed bathing in the present?
Machida Ninja | Introduction to "money soup" - the bathing culture of civilians
Earth picture team | Don't want to be viewed by the erotic eyes of the opposite sex Japanese mixed bathing culture decline
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