# Mucheng Original # Guanzhiji 8- Memories of the Big Bathhouse

Mu Cheng remembers someone saying that friends in the south have a slightly horrible impression of bathhouses in the north. Mainly the bathhouses in the north are not built. The men's bathhouse only has a public shower and a hot pool shared by many people. The women's bathhouse only has a public shower room. No matter what status or level, you are naked when you enter the bathhouse. Anyone can see who it is and there is no privacy. Mu admits that this is a part of culture, and it is also my life memory as a northeast person.

1, childhood enlightenment. In the northeast, baby boys can be carried into the women's bathhouse by their mothers to take a bath together. Sometimes the bathroom is marked with the words "Boys under 3 years old can enter", and other aunts or elder sisters who share a bathtub are not shy about this, and occasionally meet the little boy Doby. Just like in movies, there are often scenes of little boys streaking. On the one hand, it shows the generosity and frankness of the northeast people, on the other hand, it is also a kind of sexual enlightenment in the initial chaos.

2, the old bathhouse is leisurely. When I was a child, the bathhouse I went to with my grandfather was called Longquan Bathhouse, which was a very traditional old bathhouse. In retrospect, it was really unique. There are all kinds of wooden beds as soon as you enter the door. The two beds are a partition, with a coffee table in the middle and a shoe cabinet under the table. The position of the head of the bed is the cabinet for putting clothes, which is very deep and reaches the ground. If I hid in it when I was a child, it would be hard to find it. The cabinet is generally a sliding door, and the clothes hook is behind the sliding door. The stupefied sliding door structure looks like a cane. At that time, I liked to play around. There are many beds. If you don't go early, you'll be robbed. Without the bed, we can only use the combination cabinet. When the combined cabinet is gone, the basket can only be used, and it is a huge bamboo basket, which is similar in shape to a vat. When the old bathhouse was the hottest, there were not enough baskets, so we had to queue up in the lobby outside. This kind of bamboo basket usually has two baskets for slippers, so whoever comes to take a shower must first choose one foot in the basket.

? Each bed is equipped with sheets, towels, cups and tea. Many old people like to come to the bathhouse to have tea and chat and sleep slowly. There is a hot lunch box in the hot water room, and "bath fans" can stay in bed all day with their meals. Those who are not short of money will also take a bath, get pedicures and cupping.

? Bathroom is very particular, divided into shower room and shower room. There are five pools in the bath hall. The four pools are divided into four temperatures: warm, hot, very hot and very hot. A small pool is reserved for children up to the age of ten. The water in the pool was all green, and medical stone water was popular at that time. When I was a teenager, I could hardly enter the warm swimming pool. Grandpa can go to a very hot level, the hottest is the highest level in the steam, and occasionally he can see one or two Superman grandfathers go down and sing Peking Opera or Pingju in the pool. Some young people joked that it was hot, but I deeply felt that this god-like old man was sitting in the pool and singing. He just likes excitement. The shower room is a device for treading water, and only when you step on it will you spray water from the shower room. A hole is opened in the wall of each shower, and a square ceramic is inlaid. The inner ring of the ceramic has a slightly wavy arc for putting soap. In the open space of the shower room, there are two reclining chairs with large inclination, which are covered with towel quilts for bathing. Two bath workers sat beside them, ready for battle, just waiting for the bather to shout-come, take a bath. Now the new baths are all lying down, with disposable plastic sheets below.

? In the early years, in this bitter and cold place in Northeast China, many elderly people formed the habit of taking a bath once a week, so the bruises on their bodies increased, and the occupation of rubbing bath came into being. This project, which has both male and female baths, belongs to intensity work. Meeting a good bath master will not be embarrassing, but also very comfortable. As for some friends who are curious and don't go to special places, it's actually not that exaggerated. The male bath will only lift the scrotum root and rub the vulva. As for the penis, the bathing teacher won't touch it.

? With the development of the times, some new equipment will be added to the old bath, such as steam room, sauna room and so on. Old-fashioned beds are hard to see, replaced by lounge and Datong shop. Of course, only men's baths have these things, and women's baths only have dressing rooms and showers, but there are many optional services, such as milk baths, salt baths, various fruit baths and so on. The basic way is to add a few more processes before rubbing. For example, the milk bath is to mix the milk on the towel when taking a bath, and the fruit bath is to juice the fruit in advance for use. As for how I know, in fact, when I was a training institution in Tiexi, my boss happened to be doing a bathhouse at the same time, which was very special. Downstairs is the bathhouse, and upstairs is the collocation of training institutions. After work, I occasionally helped my boss to work at the front desk of the bathhouse, so I learned something.

3, anecdotes of university bathhouses. In universities, there are many alumni all over the world, and different habits will collide.

? For example, a southern student, unaccustomed to the unobtrusive way in the north, simply wears swimming trunks to take a bath, leaving a black and blue strip among a group of white strips in the water, which needs to be pulled open to wash important parts. It is also a landscape.

? For example, I met a student who was very neat and carried a big bag to take a shower. Everyone was curious. Later, it was found that the bag was full of towels of various colors and styles. I saw him wiping his face, hands and body with a towel ... just when everyone understood what was going on, I suddenly heard him shout, "Ah! I forgot to wipe my feet! " The audience was completely defeated. ...

? For example, in order to save water, the bathhouse in the South District adopts the method of flow charge, which means that the meal card in the South District will be discharged when it is inserted, and the fee will be automatically deducted when it is taken down. What about those who save water? Maybe you can get it for a dollar. I heard a news that a student forgot to pull out his card and went out for dinner for two months ... Later, students from the southern district came to take a bath in our paid bathhouse in the northern district. ...

? There is also a male student who stood at the gate of the female bathhouse for two hours, waiting for his girlfriend to come out, which is also the mark of youth. ...

I vaguely remember that when I was a child, a bath cost two to three yuan, but now an ordinary public bath costs eight yuan. Moreover, many bathhouses used to have their own boilers to boil water, but now they all buy water from thermal power plants. Judging from the changes in the details of the times, I still have some memories of bathhouses. ...