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Knowledge and research books about Japanese money soup

Qiantang is a Japanese public bathroom, which can be understood as a bathing hall in China.

why is it called money soup? I don't know. I don't always spend money on bath water as soup. If you don't understand Japanese, you will make a joke. There is no textual research on the origin of the word Qian Tang, but it is certain that Qian Tang has a history. Many Qian Tang's architectural styles are very similar to those of Japanese temples. They all have an arched eaves with patterns carved on them. Wood is generally not colored, but turns gray-black due to sun and rain, which is the same as other traditional buildings in Japan. The entrance is two wide wooden sliding doors, and a blue curtain with the Japanese pseudonym "Yu" (= soup) is hung on the door frame. This word is round and elegant, and it looks steaming. It is quite comfortable before washing.

Qiantang is generally located in the old city. Most of the houses there look very old, which makes people wonder whether they existed in the edo period. Whenever the sun sets, every household is quickly shrouded in twilight, and the jagged low-rise houses are vaguely connected. In the not-too-distant past, the sky may have been covered with smoke, but now only Qian Tang can emit light smoke from a small chimney.

Money soup usually opens in the afternoon and stays open until late at night, which is quite convenient for Japanese who have worked hard all day. After dark, more and more people came kicking around with small washbasins with washing utensils. Money-laundering soup is mostly people who live nearby. Some people may not have a bathroom at home, but many frequent customers patronize money soup just for comfort. After all, money soup is much more spacious than the bathroom at home.

when Qian Tang enters the door, it is a wooden floor. Take off your shoes and put them in the shoe cabinet against the wall. You can enter the dressing room in the back with a wooden key. Of course, men enter men's doors and women enter women's doors, but when they enter, they will find that they enter the same room, except that there is a wooden wall in the middle that divides the room in two. There is a high counter between the two doors, and the door keeper-mostly the shopkeeper-sits in the counter. Because you are sitting in the middle, you can charge both men and women, and you can also' monitor' the dressing rooms of both men and women. Both men and women take off their clothes under the eyes of the shopkeeper, but fortunately, the old lady usually charges, and she seems to have no intention of enjoying the scenery in front of her.

Although most of the old ladies are sitting on the stage, there are a few men who just keep the door open. Probably the business is bleak, and the store can't afford to hire people, so the boss has to sit on the stage himself. In order to reduce embarrassment and avoid loneliness, men put a small TV in front of them. When customers come, they don't blink. They just mechanically say please come in and welcome, and then continue to stare at the TV. The Japanese are generous, and don't seem to mind much. So I take off mine. I just need to block the key place with a small towel after I take off my clothes. It is said that women are the same. It is probably a unique habit of the Japanese to hide their shame with a towel. Even in a public bathroom like Qiantang, they are reluctant to talk about heroes by size. As long as it gets in the front, you can look at your ass casually. This is not nonsense. If you don't believe me, you can watch TV patiently, and you will surely see a group of men and women (women will be wrapped in a big bath towel) walking naked from the hotel room to the open-air bathing beach.

The contrast between Japanese bathing culture and China is probably the biggest. For example, you will see a TV commercial in which the whole family of four are dancing and cheering in a big bathtub. If you are in China, you will not be arrested for incest. I once heard a young girl on TV say that she bathed with her father since she was a child until she was 2 years old. At first, she didn't believe her ears, thinking that she didn't hear it correctly or she was talking nonsense. Later, I saw a TV program to let girls of eighteen or nineteen go to rub their fathers' backs while they were taking a bath, so as to coquetry their fathers to get more pocket money, and I had to believe that it was normal for daughters and fathers to take a bath together in Japan.

It's really not easy to understand a culture different from your own country, but as long as you are tolerant, you won't make a fuss after a long time.

The same is true of money laundering soup. At first, people who thought they could soak in such hot water must have a thick skin, and after getting used to it, they won't feel so hot. Even if you can't get used to it, it doesn't matter. Qiantang has prepared several pools with different water temperatures for you. Many money soup baths also have jet massage devices, and after some impact, the fatigue of the body suddenly disappears a lot. There is a tile painting of Mount Fuji on the wall of many money soup. Looking at Mount Fuji in the pool is like an open-air hot spring under Mount Fuji, which has a unique artistic conception.

Like the dressing room, the men's pool and the women's pool are separated by a wall. The wall is only about 2 meters high. Both sides can see the same roof and hear each other's voices. Because of the sound of water, the unique structure of the bathroom, and the fog that permeates the sky, it is difficult to tell what the other party is saying. Older couples often come together to launder soup. When a woman is going out after washing, she shouts loudly to the next door: "Dad, I will wait for you at the door." As a result, several men thought it was their wives and rushed out. As for young couples, they are embarrassed to shout through the wall. They would rather stand outside and wait. So you can often see girls looking forward to it outside the money soup door. Especially in the winter night, a young woman in a simple kimono stood in the snow with flushed cheeks and steaming hair after bathing. The dim light, reflecting the light snow, can't help but remind people of the ukiyo-e picture, which is really full of oriental sentiment.

I haven't had money soup for many years, and I don't know if I can see this again. Nowadays, the number of people who go to Qiantang to take a bath is decreasing year by year. Many Qiantang have already closed their doors and managed to survive. Faced with the shortage of tourists, they have to raise prices continuously. Ten years ago, it was still 28 yen to wash the money soup once. After several price increases, it is said that it costs more than 35 yen to wash it once now. The guests may come back. The reality is that Qiantang management is at the end of the road, and there is no successor.

Many traditional cultures have been well preserved in Japan. How long will the money soup last?

Maybe one day, I took a small washbasin to Qiantang, which I used to go to, and saw a piece of paper posted on the closed door, which read: Thank you for your patronage all the year round, and our shop was open until yesterday.