Going to a northern bathhouse to take a bath can be very embarrassing, especially for women. Because women’s body structures are different, you have to rub all sides when taking a bath, including the key areas.
In the north, bathhouses are divided into levels, divided into high-level, intermediate and low-level. There are three levels in total. The services and experiences corresponding to each level are different. High-end bathhouses The service is the best, followed by the mid-level bathhouses, and the low-level bathhouses have average services. The higher the level, the better the service and experience.
My wife and I have been to the north for a trip before. I have always heard people say that scrubbing is addictive because it is so comfortable. There are either zero or countless scrubbings. Once you go there, you'll want to go there more often.
My wife said that we wanted to experience the northern bathhouse. After we packed our luggage, we went to the bathhouse. We went to a high-end bathhouse. This bathhouse was very luxuriously decorated and had a lot of entertainment. The facilities and services are also very good.
Before we even reached the door, the bathhouse attendants had already opened the door to greet us. When we walked in front of them, they greeted us with a smile.
After we entered, we looked here and touched there. We were very curious. A middle-aged man about fifty years old came over and he greeted us warmly. He said: You guys Well, I am the owner of this store. Judging from the looks of you two, this must be your first time here.
My wife and I nodded to him, and I told him that we were from the south and it was our first time to visit the north. We heard others say that the bathing service in the north was very good, so we came here to experience it. Ichiban asked him if he had any good recommendations.
The boss said: Since it is your first time here, you must try our bathing and breast-feeding package. This is the standard in our bathhouse, and many first-time guests will choose this. This package is not only cheap, but also has excellent service. It costs 20 yuan for men and 30 yuan for women.
After hearing this, I was a little confused, so I asked the boss, why are the charges for the same package different by ten yuan?
The boss said: You don’t know something about this. There is a saying in the north: when a man takes a bath, he rubs on both sides, and when a woman takes a bath, she rubs on all sides. It means that when a man goes to the bathhouse to take a bath, he only needs to rub. After rubbing the front and back, you can go to massage. It takes a shorter time, but women are different. Because their body structures are different, you have to rub the front, back and both sides when taking a bath. It is more troublesome to rub it. It will also take longer, so you will be charged an extra ten yuan.
What the boss said made sense, so I told him: Then I want the bathing and breast-feeding package you just recommended.
The boss gave us two wooden signs, then called two people over and took us into the bathhouse. The men's bathhouse and the women's bathhouse are separate. The men's bathhouse is on the second floor and the women's bathhouse is on the third floor. .
We went to the north in winter. The weather was very cold at that time and our bodies were still shaking a little. However, after entering the bathhouse, we didn’t feel cold anymore. The bathhouse was steaming and very warm. There were many People were taking a bath, scrubbing and getting a massage. It was a little awkward when they first entered. Everyone looked over. Fortunately, they just glanced at me and didn't stare at me the whole time.
The bath attendant asked me to take a bath while I was there to soften my skin, which would make it easier for me to clean it after a bath. I went over to the bathtub and found a seat to sit down. After soaking for about ten minutes, the bath attendant asked me to get up.
I lay on the bathing bed and he poured milk on me. Then he took out a rough bathing towel and started to rub it hard on me, from top to bottom. It turned my skin red and I still felt pain.
A lot of dirt was rubbed out on my body. It was black and disgusting, just like the "glaring leg-stretching pills" made by Jigong. After rubbing the front and back, he called me Rinse it with water and then massage.
His massage is very comfortable. He knows where your pain is and he specifically massages that area. After that, you feel your whole body relaxed. It took 30 minutes to get it right.
I went back to the lobby on the first floor and saw that my wife hadn’t come out yet, so I found a seat to sit down. Just when the boss saw me, he came over to chat with me. After chatting for more than 20 minutes, my wife After it was done, I saw her face glowing red and asked her if she felt comfortable.
She said: The massage was very comfortable, but I didn’t expect that I would even rub the key parts. I was very embarrassed and a little shy at the time.
My wife said that there is no bathtub in the women’s bathhouse. They take a bath in a wooden bucket. Many people bring their own bath towels. They said that they can use their own bath towels. It's relatively hygienic, but it was the first time for my wife and I to go there. We didn't know this, so we didn't bring anything with us. We used the bath towels provided by the bath attendants.
My wife even rubbed her hands with her hands when taking a bath. She said she was afraid that she would rub a lot of dirt when she took a bath, and would be laughed at by others, so she rubbed it less first.
My wife also soaked for ten minutes, and the bath attendant woke her up. She spread a plastic sheet on the bath bed, filled a wooden basin with some water, and asked her to lie down. He went up and sprinkled water on her body, then took out a bath towel and asked her if she wanted to try using red wine or vinegar to rub it in. It only cost five yuan.
She asked the bath attendant what was the difference between rubbing with red wine. The bath attendant told her that rubbing with red wine could nourish her skin, promote blood circulation and speed up metabolism.
She thought for a while and found that she had never heard of anyone using wine to take a bath, so she told the bather aunt that milk would be enough.
The bather aunt poured milk on her body, and then used a bath towel to rub her body, starting from her neck and rubbing all the way down to her feet.
The bather aunt was a fat middle-aged woman. She was very strong and the massage caused her great pain. However, she was embarrassed to say it, so she kept enduring it. Fortunately, the bather noticed it. After she felt strange, her strength became a little less, and she didn't feel so much pain.
When she was taking a bath, she chatted with the auntie who was doing the bathing. She said that the milk smelled very good. The aunty who was doing the bathing told her that using milk to rub it would leave a light milky smell on her body. The fragrance, after the skin absorbs it, will also make the skin more tender and smooth.
As she was rubbing, she suddenly shivered. It turned out that the auntie with the bath cloth had touched a key area. She blushed and felt shy. She quickly asked the auntie with the bath cloth to rub other areas.
The auntie who was giving the bath was a sensible person. She smiled and then started to rub her other parts. After rubbing her front and back, the auntie who was giving the bath patted her legs and asked her to lie on her side. , but she didn’t react because her eyes were closed at the time. She thought the bather was massaging her. She didn’t respond after several times of massage. The bather then told her to lie on her side. Only then did he react.
After the bather auntie finished scrubbing, she asked her to rinse the dirt off her body with water. After it was rinsed, she could go to the steam room first, then massage, or she could just massage directly.
After flushing, she put on a bathrobe to steam her body. She sweated all over and felt completely comfortable. She fell asleep while the bather was patting her breasts and massaging her breasts. , she said it was so comfortable that she didn’t even know she fell asleep.
We stayed in the north for five days and went to the bathhouse for all five days. The purpose was to go to the bathhouse for massage. The massage by the bathhouse was so comfortable that it was really addictive.
Except for the first time I went there, I felt a little embarrassed and shy, but after going there I felt nothing.
Especially for southerners, this feeling will be stronger. The bathing methods of southerners and northerners are different. Southerners always wash themselves at home and wash quickly.
People in the north prefer to go to bathhouses when taking a bath. In bathhouses, you can take a bath, scrub, and get massage. There are many people in the bathhouse. Many people who go there for the first time will feel unaccustomed to it. It's normal to feel shy and embarrassed, and you'll get over it if you go a few times.
I occasionally go to the big bathhouse in the north to take a bath, and it feels great.
First, there is an atmosphere. A large bathhouse is called a bath. There are many people bathing in the large bathhouse at the same time, the steam is filled, and it is not boring or lonely. Go with three or two friends and chat.
Second, you can take a bath. Taking a bath is a favorite of northerners. There are professional bath masters in the large bathhouse, and you can also do massages and massages such as salt pushing and breast pushing. This cannot be accomplished by taking a bath at home.
Third, it can take longer to wash. The large bathhouse has a professional boiler room, so the water temperature can be kept constant and the hot water lasts for a long time. If you are taking a bath at home, it is better to have a natural gas wall-mounted boiler. If it is electric or solar, the hot water will be kept for a shorter time.
Therefore, taking a bath in a large northern bathhouse can take a relatively long time, and coupled with a massage, it is a process of relaxing the body and mind.
This reminds me of the first time I went to a large bathhouse with my mother to take a bath when I was a child. The moment I walked into the bathhouse, I was frightened and ran out. My mother seemed to understand my thoughts in advance. As soon as she lifted her feet, she grabbed her back and dragged her in forcefully.
In the early 1980s, there were no private bathhouses in the county. One or two bathhouses were provided by enterprises under the supply and marketing cooperative for their own employees. However, they were also open to the public. Tickets were 20 cents per person. Every time on the eve of the Spring Festival, people taking a bath are like attending a temple fair.
In our place, one week before the Spring Festival, every household has to do a big cleaning of the house. We call it "house cleaning". Parents will move all the furniture into the yard and then give it to them. We, the siblings, divide the work. Because I am the eldest, the heavy work of cleaning the windows will fall on my shoulders every time. The two younger brothers are responsible for cleaning the tables, chairs and benches in the yard, and my father and mother are responsible for cleaning the room and kitchen.
Because it is only thoroughly cleaned once a year, it basically takes a day to clean it all. Finally, all the furniture must be put in place, and both adults and children are transformed by the dust accumulated over the years. After finishing cleaning up the "mud figures", my brothers and I were already hungry, and we were just looking forward to having dinner as soon as possible, but we had to be dragged by our parents to go to the bathhouse to take a bath first, because we got there late and they were closed.
I remember when I went there for the first time, before I even entered the door, I could see steaming water droplets flowing down the glass of the window, which made people feel that it must be very warm inside. After my mother bought the ticket , and then pulled me towards the door curtain with the woman written on it. Once inside, there was a person collecting tickets at the door. After paying the ticket, they gave me a small lock with a key. After turning around, I came to the entrance to the bathhouse. main entrance.
The moment I opened the door, I saw a field of white flowers. There were people who had just taken a shower and were getting dressed, some who had just arrived were taking off their clothes, and the children they had brought were taking off their clothes. I was crying, and the room was filled with steam and an indescribable smell, which made me feel a little suffocated, so I turned around and wanted to run out, but just when I turned around, my mother caught me.
The bathhouse is divided into two rooms, inside and outside. There is a half curtain between the two rooms. You can't see the inside from the outside. Surrounded by the wall outside, there are several old-fashioned rectangular wooden beds. Under the bed There was a thin mattress covered with coarse cloth sheets, some of which had footprints on them. Next to the bed were several sets of three-story wooden cabinets for bathers to store their clothes. A large wooden cabinet hung on the wall. There are mirrors and some sandals scattered on the floor, but none of them match the right pair. It is said that they are to prevent someone from stealing them into the house. These are all the facilities outside, and there is almost no hygiene at all.
My mother pulled me to a relatively clean bed and asked me to quickly take off my clothes and go in. I hesitated to take them off, so my mother took off all my clothes in three quick strokes. I put it in the cabinet next to me, and I squatted down shyly. My mother said loudly: "Why don't you go in quickly, why are you squatting here?" At this time, the people next to me looked at me, and I was so ashamed that I hurriedly squatted down, took the bathing things and walked inside.
When I opened the door curtain and saw the water vapor inside the room, I couldn't see the direction for a while. After stopping for a few seconds, with the dim light, I saw a large pool in front of me. , there are shower heads all around, the pool is full of people, and the shower next to it is also full of people. At this time, my mother also came in, and she asked me to soak in the pool for a while, and then wait for the shower over there. When there are fewer people, go up and wash.
The side of the pool was slippery, so I carefully put my feet down first. The moment I got close to the water, I felt that the water inside was extremely hot. I immediately howled and put my feet back. My mother said: "What are you shouting for?" The water is not hot, so don't wait. The time will come down quickly. "I had to sit on the edge of the pool and put my feet in little by little again, and then put my feet in with a grin on my face. They were all put in. Just when I was still standing, some unlucky child splashed in the water, and the waves knocked me down.
The moment I fell down, I was thinking that I would definitely drown here today. The fear in my heart immediately spread throughout my body. I kept flopping in the water and shouted "Help". At this moment, someone shouted I was pulled up, and then I heard a voice, "Take a bath, why are you shouting for help? Stand firm and see where the water reaches you." It turned out that it was my mother who caught me next to me. After I stood firm, I looked down and saw that the water had just covered my thighs. After calming down, I slowly sat on the cement platform under the pool.
The adults in the pool were all taking a bath. While waiting for the shower to clear up, the children were splashing back and forth in the water. I just sat in the pool, waiting like a sculpture. After a while, my mother saw an empty shower room. She hurriedly pulled me up and stood down, scrubbing and washing me. She felt that I was almost clean, so she went out and got me a dry towel, and asked me to dry myself and come out first. Put on clothes and wait for her.
I opened the door curtain and walked outside. Goosebumps immediately appeared on my body. I thought that when I first came in, I didn’t feel it was so cold outside. My upper and lower rows of teeth were trembling. I quickly came to the bed where I put my clothes, quickly found my clothes, and quickly put them on.
After a while, I felt very relaxed and comfortable, and I felt sleepy immediately. So I lay on the bed and fell asleep. I didn’t know when my mother came out. When she woke me up, she was already dressed.
I was woken up when I was sleeping soundly. It was 100 reluctances. I was making a fuss and didn’t want to leave. I wanted to continue sleeping there. My mother told me to go home and sleep quickly. The house was about to close. After hearing this, I couldn’t follow my mother outside. As soon as I went out, a cold wind blew by. , I got a jolt and woke up immediately. My mother took me home on her bicycle.
This was my first experience of taking a bath in a big bathhouse, which is now used in every house. There are showers, and fewer and fewer people go to the public bathhouse to take a bath, but if you want to take a comfortable bath, I think you should go to the large public bathhouse.
This was before the 1980s. . As people's awareness of health care increases, bathing in large bathhouses gradually disappears from the stage of history.
There are three times when I took a bath in a large bathhouse:
The first time I went there. In Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, my eldest sister gave me two yuan to buy a pair of plastic sandals and a popsicle. The remaining 2 cents left me to take a bath in a big bathhouse.
I was 16 years old that year. Most of the people who go to the large bathhouse are elderly people. More than 40 people were in three large pools.
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The older ones were not afraid of being burned. They soaked in the steaming water and squatted at the bottom of the pool, with only their heads exposed and barely moving. They soaked for about It took half an hour to stand up, and my whole body was red with heat.
I don’t have the patience, so I stopped washing it in less than 20 minutes.
On December 17, 1972, the third day after receiving the notice of enlistment, the leader of the army, Zhao Xianfu, led 25 militiamen from the commune, each riding a bicycle to the large bathhouse in Fucheng County, 25 miles away. bath.
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After arriving behind Wulong, Dandong City, Liaoning Province, where the army is stationed, hundreds of recruits went to take a hot spring bath the next day. The water in the pool was crystal clear. In 1974, the army built its own hot spring bathing center, equipped with large bathhouses, single pools and showers. From then on, the company arranged a collective bathing once a week.
Wulongbei underground hot spring resources are quite abundant, and many hot spring sanatoriums have been built on this basis. Wulongbei Hot Spring contains a variety of trace elements, which can prevent and treat many chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, waist and leg pain. If you have the opportunity, you can visit here and enjoy Wulongbei Hot Spring.
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When I was young, my father and I would go to the big bathhouse on the street to take a bath every week. After buying the ticket and taking the locker key, it was time to put away the clothes. Take off your clothes somewhere! After that, I went naked into the big bathing room. There were two big bathhouses, one with a lower temperature and one with a higher temperature! When I first entered, the humid weather carried a strange smell. I slowly walked into the hot water until I soaked up to my neck. The feeling can be described in two words - comfortable!
Nowadays, the new style of bathing is similar all over the country, including washing, steaming, rubbing and massaging. The question is about the old-fashioned northern bathhouse. To put it simply, it only has a big pool and a shower. There is no locker. Clothes are piled on the bed. After the bath, the bath master queues up to rub the mud. You sit and rub it instead of lying down. twist. After washing and scrubbing, I lay down on the bed, order a pot of tea, take a nap, or listen to the old comrades chatting about everything. However, this kind of bathhouse has basically disappeared, and you can’t find it in my city anyway.
Let’s talk about men’s bathhouses first, and then we’ll talk about women’s bathhouses. The air in the north is dry and the temperature is low, so many northerners like to take a bath in the big bathhouse. "Rush, soak, drink, rub, bathe, steam and sleep" can basically sum up the entire process of bathing in the northern bathhouse.
After entering the bathhouse, everyone takes off their clothes. The first step is to rinse their bodies under the shower nozzles. This is done to wash off the skin flakes on the body first and avoid bringing them into the pool and affecting other people. This is considered from the perspective of hygiene. Some people jump directly into the large pool without rinsing, which often arouses the disgust of experienced bathers. When you see such a person, especially someone who feels dirty, go straight into the pool, and some particular people will stop taking a dip in the pool.
After rinsing, walk into the bathtub. There are generally three bathing pools in the north, one is a warm pool with a temperature of 38 or 9 degrees, the second is a hot pool with a temperature of about 42 degrees Celsius, and the third is a cold pool with a temperature of about 25 degrees. People usually soak in the warm pool first, and then enter the hot pool after their bodies have adapted. Most people only enter these two pools, but some people like to enter the hot pool and then the cold pool. Exit the cold pool, then enter the hot pool, repeat several times. It is said that this method makes the skin pores open and shrink, which helps enhance immunity.
The eldest brother in my work unit is from Heilongjiang. He often does this and looks cold. Once, he encouraged me to try it. I tried it once when I was young and it felt pretty good. When the hot water comes out, you don't feel cold when you go into the cold water. When you feel cold, come out and put in the hot water again. But I didn't insist on doing this because I was worried that it would damage my body over time.
During the process of soaking in the pool, you need to drink a lot of water.
I'm also curious about this. People's bodies always feel dehydrated when soaking in a pool. It should be because they sweat when soaking in hot water, but isn't it all water when soaking in water? Water is also lost? I won’t study this anymore. Anyway, people who are particular about bathing will bring their own teapot and drink a pot of water after taking a bath. Drinking and sweating at the same time is so comfortable.
After soaking, what is penetration? Just the skin feels tender and soft. It's in a state where you can even rub it off. Rubbing baths is very particular. It is said that people from the south come to the north to do bathing, but southerners don't rub baths because the climate there is good and there is nothing to rub on the body. Northern scrubbing can be divided into two types: towel scrubbing and towel scrubbing, as the name suggests. Bath towels are suitable for people with skin endurance, and towels are suitable for people with poor endurance. Towel rubbing is generally twice as expensive as bath towel rubbing.
In order to increase income, the bath master also came up with some new methods. For example, vinegar rub, milk rub, baby rub. When taking a bath, they spray vinegar, milk, bath mud, etc. on the customer's body, saying that this will make the customer's body cleaner. Of course, there is an additional charge. Usually there is an additional charge of 10 to 30 yuan. However, for people like me who have rough skin and thick flesh, there is no difference. It’s just that when taking a bath, the scrub master always recommends it to you, and I’m embarrassed not to use it.
Northerners have dry skin. After taking a bath, they like to take another bath if possible. What is a bath? Even the bath salts, bath milk, and Bucklin, I can’t remember exactly those things. The key is not what he sprays on the body, the more expensive the thing he sprays on the body, the longer and finer the massage. The price varies, ranging from 50 to 500. Of course, there may be more expensive ones, but I have never enjoyed them. The process of bathing, from head to toe, is really enjoyable. Economic conditions determine the degree of enjoyment. My income is limited and I only enjoy it once in a while.
Rub it clean and press it until it feels comfortable. Spray the milk and salt on your body. You can't just rinse it off. It's better to steam it in a steam room for ten minutes to let the milk and salt slowly dissolve and soak into your body. The skin becomes soft, and anyone who touches it will like it. I just like my wife after taking a milk bath.
Don’t think wrongly, no one will sleep with you. Of course, if it happens, it’s not absolutely impossible. After a fresh shower, a refreshing feeling spreads throughout the body. At this time, everyone wants to sleep comfortably. Those who have plenty of time will go to the lounge to sleep. If you like it, you can also get a pedicure.
Finally, let me briefly introduce to you the women’s bathhouse. Because the author is a male, I have never entered or experienced it. I just heard from family members that women’s bathhouses generally don’t have pools. If you need to take a bath, there is usually a special wooden tub lined with plastic and filled with water. One per person. Everything else is pretty much the same. By the way, it is said that women should rub their hands on all four sides when taking a bath, while men should rub their hands on two sides. Women are clean, that’s understandable.
In fact, there are large bathhouses in both the south and the north. I don’t know what the ones in the north are like, but I will share with you the ones in the south! Isn’t it just a sauna club? -...Don't say you haven't been there.
There are many people in the pool, and there are usually people who specialize in bathing. The price is not expensive, and the bath is more spacious than at home