A lens that people can't understand! Do the Japanese all kneel on the ground to clean the floor?

Indeed, the Japanese are kneeling on the ground to clean the floor. First of all, because Japan's own land area is also very small, earthquakes often occur, so there is another major feature of Japanese architecture, that is, small apartments. Therefore, compared with other countries, houses in Japan are very small. For them, scrubbing the floor on their knees is not a very tiring and exhausting thing.

The second reason is that "kneeling and rubbing" in Japan has become a traditional cleaning method. It's not that Japan doesn't have the mops we use now, or automatic mops and rotating mops. Just because of Japan, in ancient times, floors have been wiped like this and passed down from generation to generation as a habit. In this way, the Japanese also want to cultivate children's cleaning habits from an early age, which they think can help children's brains coordinate.

The third reason is that most houses in Japan are made of wood, mostly wooden floors or tatami. If you use a mop or other cleaning tools, it is difficult to completely wring out the water on the mop, and if the floor is too wet, it will also cause damage. If you kneel and wipe the floor with a rag, it will be cleaner and protect the wooden floor to some extent.

Moreover, most people in Japan will choose to sit directly on the floor as soon as they enter Canada, most of them sleep on tatami, and even some people will lie directly on the floor when they sleep, which will require higher cleanliness of the floor. If the floor is not cleaned properly, it will affect people's health. So if you wipe the floor on your knees, you can make the floor cleaner.

There is also a saying that if the Japanese "wipe the floor on their knees", they will also reduce the money for buying mops and buckets.