Yangzhou Bathing Yangzhou Bathing Culture

The "pedicure knife" of Yangzhou Three Knives is the common name for bathing in Yangzhou. Yangzhou people are very good at bathing, know how to take baths, and love taking baths. This has formed a Weiyang characteristic of "water wrapped in skin in the morning" (referring to Yangzhou people's habit of eating morning tea) and "water wrapped in skin in the evening".

When "water foreskin" has become a traditional service item, a service closely linked to the labor and wisdom of Yangzhou people, the "Yangzhou pedicure knife" that has been processed, transformed and created has become an object of society and people. , it has accumulated and become a cultural phenomenon.

Yangzhou bathing, like Yangzhou gardens and Huaiyang cuisine, has both the simplicity of the north and the elegance of the south. Simplicity shows sincerity, elegance shows delicacy, which makes Yangzhou bathing services show the characteristics of being both majestic and beautiful, and suitable for both north and south.

For Yangzhou people, bathing is not only a need for hygiene, but also a symbol of civilization, a sign of etiquette, a measure of quality, and spiritual enjoyment. Bathing in Yangzhou has become a reflection of social civilization and regional culture in a certain historical period.

Although Yangzhou Pedicure Knife is small, it has a long origin, deep foundation and heavy weight. Yangzhou bathing culture, with its distinctive national character, flows in the long river of bathing culture in the world;

Yangzhou bathing culture, with its unique locality, stands out in the jungle of Chinese bathing culture;

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As a result, history gave Yangzhou bathing culture a name that the common people loved: "Yangzhou Pedicure Knife"! She is famous all over the world as the founder of the East Asian bathing genre!

The bathing custom in Yangzhou is a custom that is popular among Yangzhou people in a specific era, participated in, created, known and loved. Its emergence and development are naturally integrated into life and gradual, and its demise is inevitable and silent as the times advance. Without enjoying the cool air and visiting each other, this national cultural heritage will be extremely precious.

It is undeniable that there are customs and phenomena in Yangzhou bathhouses, progress and backwardness coexist, elegance and popularization coexist, but there is no need to trace the origin, explain the changes, analyze and identify, and It is necessary to seek excellence. Bathers can really feel the atmosphere, taste the taste, get the feeling and enter the state in Yangzhou bathhouse, which is the most economical and crucial thing.

That realm can be summed up in one word, which is "vulgar". The realm comes from the customs, which are customs, folk customs, and even some worldliness; the small world of the bathhouse is the big bathhouse of the world. Each bather is both the creator of the realm and the enjoyer of the realm. Yangzhou bathers are in Bathhouse - the dual structure of that specific time and space creates a state of self.