Why is the bath called "mixed hall"?

"The righteous officer was sweating like a pig when he ran. After taking a shower, he got up and his coat and overcoat had been stolen. In the commotion, the master slandered his help, and the righteous officer was very angry. Instead, he wore a gauze hat and boots, tied him up naked and said,' Is this what I'm waiting for?' "This is a joke of the acrobatic troupe in the Young Laughter selected by Zhang Yu in the Ming Dynasty. It is described that there are many noisy people in the mixed hall, and many thieves will take the opportunity to display their skills, so they are used to taking a shower and getting rid of their clothes. However, the owner of the mixed museum is playing dumb, making the righteous official angry and making such a funny move. " "Is a bathhouse, bathhouse, also known as the public bathroom.

Then why is the bath called "mixed hall"? In the Ming Dynasty, Lang Ying's "Seven Manuscripts" was published for sixteen years: "Wu Customs, the stone is a pool, the dome is a brick, and then it is a giant kettle, which connects them, and the pulley draws water and the cave wall stores it. People specialize in cooking, and the water in the pool is swallowed up, so it becomes a boiling hall, which is called mixed hall. " It means that in the bathroom of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, the front pool and the back pot were separated by brick walls, and the bottom of the pool was connected with the pot by pipes. The hot water under the pot and the cold water in the pool are constantly exchanged and mixed, and then gradually heated up to become hot soup, which is called mixed soup. The book also records the mixed hall of Emperor Wu. "Everyone who pays the host a sum of money can get a chance to take a bath." This also shows that the admission fee for mixed classes was quite cheap at that time. So this kind of public bathhouse, no matter whether the weather is hot or cold, anyone can take a bath. At that time, public bathhouses generally adopted this mode of operation, so mixed bathhouses gradually became the general name of public bathhouses. Therefore, the name "mixed hall" can also be said to be based on the structural characteristics of its bath.

However, there is another story about the origin of mixed hall, that is, public baths are shared by many people, and the water in the pool is rarely changed every day, so it is called "mixed hall" because the water in the pool is turbid and unclean. Laughing at the Broad Forest. Special department. There is a record in "Cough in the Mixed Hall": "Someone is taking a bath in the Mixed Hall, scooping water at the entrance to cough it up, and everyone frowns at each other, which is disgusting. The man scooped up the water with his hand and said, "Don't worry, gentlemen." . Drink up the water and spit it out. "Therefore, the mixed hall water has always been unclean.

The history of ancient bathing places can be traced back to before the Northern Wei Dynasty, but most of them were set up by Buddhist temples and courts. Buddhist temples built baths for monks and nuns to bathe and serve Buddhism. As recorded in Yang Xuan's Galand in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there is a bathhouse in the garden of Baoguang Temple in the west of Luoyang. The public baths run by the people began in the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, private public bathhouses prevailed, such as the dream of Song and Wu. Volume 13. Group tour: "Those who make boots and shoes are called double-line tour, and those who open baths are called perfume tour." Another Ethan Gu Hao's "Zhang Sheng Zhu Hai-The Third Fold": "This scholar can't flirt with flowers and candles, but mix perfume, and the sea will rise in the future." Bathhouse is a mixed house, also called perfume shop or perfume mixed house. The "perfume line" is named because there are many spices in the bath.

In the Song Dynasty, some miscellaneous museums also hired full-time back cleaners to help their guests clean their backs. Su Dongpo once bathed in the bathhouse under the Yongxu Tower in Sizhou, and wrote two words, "Like a dream", one of which was: "Look closely, there is neither. Send messages to people to wipe their backs and bend their elbows every day. Light-handed, light-handed, laity was spotless. " I'm talking about a full-time back cleaner in a mixed library. Back cleaning, also known as back cleaning or bathing, is one of the services developed by the mixed industry.