Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Hotel accommodation - Yishen inn

Yishen inn

An inn.

Inn, inn is the name of ancient hotels, which appeared to meet the needs of people going out for an outing or long-distance travel. When people travel far away, they will find a place to stay. The place that provides temporary accommodation for people is called an inn. Inn, in fact, also refers to accommodation-oriented places, hotels with relatively simple equipment, and some of them are also for merchants to stack goods and handle transshipment. Now the word inn has changed from a real thing to a synonym for gathering feet. Now online chat rooms or forums are also called inns.

Inn, in fact, also refers to the place where accommodation is the mainstay, which was handed down from ancient times. For example, Tongfu Inn in Wulin legend is a good example, but most places where modern people live are called hotels.

Historical evolution:

Since ancient times, people have been looking for places to stay when they travel far away, and the places that provide these places for people to stay temporarily are called inns. In the late Middle Ages, due to the vigorous development of commercial trade, more and more businessmen traveled abroad, missionaries, worshippers, diplomatic officials who negotiated with other countries, postmen who sent letters, and inns increased accordingly.

At that time, people mainly traveled by foot or carriage, so inns mainly appeared beside roads or post stations. At first, the inn only provided basic accommodation, so that passengers could have a place to stay and did not provide entertainment services. In the era of great navigation, the scale of inns began to expand, and some inns have been able to provide more than 30 rooms, including wine cellar, pantry and kitchen, to meet more needs of guests.