Japanese people attach importance to bathing.

Zhang Xiaofeng, a female writer in Taiwan Province, once said: If you see a group of people huddled together, holding a football, they are Americans. If you see a group of people vying for money, they are from China. If you see a bunch of people taking a bath together, then they are Japanese.

Although in today's Japan, public bathhouses are gradually withdrawing from modern life and becoming a beautiful nostalgic plot in the hearts of Japanese people, this passage still vividly writes that bathing is so important to Japanese people, and even in the eyes of our neighbors separated by water, it has become a unique culture.

The reason why "soaking in water" has become a Japanese national culture is: 1, which can eliminate work pressure. How humid the climate is. 3. The geographical location of many volcanoes and hot springs. 4. Social needs. 5, influenced by history and religion to form habits. I won't go into details here. Here is a brief analysis of some Japanese consciousness concepts that can be seen from some details of Japanese bathing.

First, the sense of crisis on the island-protecting all available domestic resources.

The geographical environment of Japan, a closed and narrow island country, and at the same time facing China with huge resources for a long time in history, makes this nation have to make effective use of all available resources in order to survive for a long time. Taking a bath is naturally the same. I'm afraid it's incredible for a family to soak in a jar of water or even heat the same jar of water and continue to take a bath the next day. Although water resources in China are obviously much scarcer than those in Japan, in the minds of many people in China, it doesn't matter how much water is wasted as long as they don't pay the bill themselves. Japanese people have a completely different concept from China people, saving all the resources that can be saved, and this concept has penetrated deeply into everyone's daily life.

The situation in ancient Japan has not been verified yet, but in modern times, it is reflected in high-tech energy-saving bathing. Japanese companies use high-tech insulation materials to produce bathtubs that are four times stronger than traditional bathtubs, and develop heat pumps that rely on absorbing heat from the air and the earth to heat bath water. It saves both water and electricity. Even though they are expensive, once they are developed, they are still very popular with the Japanese. After repeated use, the bath water will eventually be used to wash clothes. Therefore, some Japanese enterprises will also take this into account when producing washing machines, and for this reason, they will indicate "precautions for using bath water". In Japan, the government, enterprises and individuals are making every effort to protect all available domestic resources.

Second, never give others trouble.

Japanese people can take a bath with the whole family or take a mixed bath, which must be attributed to their unique way of bathing. Whether taking a bath at home, in a bathhouse or in a hot spring, the Japanese will definitely wash their bodies completely before taking a bath, in order to leave clean bath water for others to continue to use. In addition to the above-mentioned reasons for saving water resources, I am afraid there is another very important reason that Japanese people generally have the consciousness of "never causing trouble to others"