Why do most farmers in northwest China only take a bath once in their lives?

Many old people who have never traveled far do not know what a bath is. It would be embarrassing to elaborate. In our summer, some naughty and cold-tolerant boys occasionally hold their breath and climb back and forth twice in the pit where the river accumulates water. This is the so-called "bathing". This is the highest level of swimming or bathing, in fact, playing with water. If you live there all the time, it is normal to take a bath only once in your life, that is, three times, which is a ceremony given by the midwife on the third day after the child is born. Many places have the habit of washing three. For example, Wuxi once circulated a "Trilogy of Washing Eggs", including "Washing Eggs as a Magistrate; Wash ditch for the state; Wash your hair and be a prince. Although I don't know the specific meaning of "washing three" in northwest China, one thing is certain, that is, from the point of view that men are superior to women and women's reproductive system is unclean, I want to wash the connection from the mother to the baby. Why do you see it? Women's trousers hanging on a rope at a high place will be disturbed, thinking that men may accidentally wear them, which will bring bad luck; Plant ash, which is used by women to receive amniotic fluid and blood when giving birth, is not poured into the toilet as fertilizer, but buried deep somewhere to avoid polluting crops; Some old men and women say that they can't hide from their wives, and their eyes hurt when they see them; Inadvertently broke into the moon palace and went out to vomit on the ground to get rid of the dirty air; Three years ago, I was so crowded on the long-distance bus that I accidentally sat on a farmer's grain pocket. He said angrily, "how can I eat food that a woman has sat on?" "Wait a minute. It can be seen that if the child does not wash it three times, everyone will kiss and hug in the future, and there will be no mental illness. Whether to take a bath for life after three baths varies from place to place and from different nationalities. For example, in some places, girls will wash them in vats before getting married; Hui people will wash once after death; Where the temperature is higher and there are more rivers, it will be cleaner in summer, and so on. If you don't take a bath, you can't take a bath. There are few reservoirs in the northwest mountainous area of China. Apart from water shortage, few fields have irrigation conditions, and it is useless to store water. Most of the water in the river ditch comes from the melting snow on the mountain and the underground mountain springs, and the water temperature is extremely low, and most of it is streams, so people have to climb on their backs in the water, which is very funny. In some big rivers, due to flash floods and other reasons, sharp stones are everywhere on the riverbed. If you don't want to be frozen, you'd better not climb down and grope, and don't roll up your trouser legs and drip. As for the ponds on the Loess Plateau, they are concentrated water flowing from toilets and ditches of various households. Wash if you want, and the more you wash, the dirtier you get. Swimming? Where to swim? The mud by the pond was so slippery that I accidentally slipped in and fell into the mire below. Have you seen the skeleton fossils of the stegodon near the Yellow River? That's how it was formed. Wash at home? The water people eat comes from Koizumi's eyes in the distance. Pick a load from the mountain, and you may not even want to wash your face. Do you have the heart to take a bath? Moreover, no one has a wooden bucket for bathing. Where can I wash it? If life is difficult and there is no clothes to change, washing is equal to washing for nothing. There is no urgent need to take a bath. The northwest countryside is dominated by heatable adobe sleeping platform. Sleeping, eating, playing games, partying and so on are almost all on the heatable adobe sleeping platform. Many old people and children have the habit of getting on the kang without taking off their shoes. Those who take off their shoes on the kang. In order to avoid their shoes being trampled under the kang edge by people who frequently get on and off the kang, they often take off their shoes far from the kang edge, walk barefoot from the mud, and then get on the kang. In fact, it makes no difference whether they can take off or not. Pay attention to some people, sweep the kang and sweep the floor with two brooms. Many people use a broom to sweep the kang first, and then sweep the floor. The soil comes and goes, sleeping in the soil, and the soil sticks to the body and rubs on the ground. It is impossible to change clothes once a day, so it is unnecessary to take a bath. In areas with relatively low temperatures, such as Qinghai, western Gansu and other areas with higher altitudes, the short-term maximum temperature in summer is less than 25 degrees Celsius, and it is difficult for elderly people with poor joints to sweat in summer. Compared with the short-term comfort after a bath, tossing and cold are more annoying. Cultural tradition of not taking a bath or not wanting to show your body. Because of the low temperature, complicated and steep terrain, conservative thinking and other reasons, almost no one in the northwest countryside wears skirts and bright ultra-short clothes, and the basic attire is simple and convenient pants and long-sleeved clothes. In the long run, they have developed the habit of exposing their bodies in the smallest possible area and with the lowest possible probability, and looking at their bodies is very secret. I had this idea when I took a shower for the first time. When I was a freshman, I came out of the bathroom with a basin and passed by the playground. Seeing several boys playing basketball in the class from a distance, I hid and hurried away. I have always felt that it is very shy to just give boys a bath and draw inferences from others. Unexpectedly, at the end of the dormitory, a graduate student several years older than me came face to face. He asked me, "Why did you go? "My head fell silent, my face was burning, and then I looked up. People walked away with strange smiles on their faces. I must know what I mean. I don't know how to laugh at me when I get back to the dormitory. No bathing, lack of clothes and food will definitely bring health problems, and the proliferation of lice and scorpions is the most prominent performance. These guys are extremely tenacious. As a result of reproduction, the girl's hair shines under the braid and spreads to the top of her head in severe cases. She must drip vinegar into shampoo, soak and swell them, then wash them with a comb and filter them. Not to mention clothes. What do we do? Hang underwear outside in winter and freeze it repeatedly, and boil water several times in summer. Compared with the former, boiling water destroys clothes, which is even worse for poor families. So catching lice is still a necessary way to eliminate parasites. In 2000, Mr Gong Shuduo told the author about the history of modern culture in China. I remember him saying several times that there are pictures of Tibetans catching lice at the root of the wall in the China history textbook compiled by the British. He said that westerners are biased against China. I wonder when this photo was taken. Where on earth did you get it? Born and raised in Taiwan Province Province, Mr. Wang came to Beijing around the founding of New China, so he was naturally unfamiliar with life in the mainland. At that time, I really wanted to tell him that catching lice in the sun was a homework that all women there would do, so I asked someone to catch them for myself and others. In recent years, farmers have worked more, and with other forms of improvement, their clothes have been changed frequently, and lice and scorpions in many families have disappeared. This is a sign of social progress, but the situation of not taking a bath remains the same, and lice and scorpions have not disappeared. No bathing and less bathing are not only related to water sources, habits, material living standards and health factors, but also closely related to climatic conditions. When I went to Beijing for graduate school, I gave a bath ticket every week in winter, and I had to buy the rest from my teacher. I think it's ok. Winter should be like this. Students in Jiangxi try to buy as many tickets as possible, saying that we southerners can't wash them once a week in the northwest. I am ashamed again, and feel that I have to strengthen my hygiene habits. A few years later, I went to Jiujiang and took three baths in the morning. I am much more diligent than Jiangxi people, and I don't even want to drink water. That terrible place, sultry, sultry, beads of sweat do not volatilize, rolling straight to the ground and sticky all over. Southerners should be in the northwest of China at this time. What kind of comfort is it? Do you still want to take a shower?