In the era when there were no showers and water heaters, how often did the ancients take a bath?

In fact, bathing in modern times is a relatively common thing, but in ancient times, because the living conditions are not particularly good, it is impossible to take a bath every day, at the very beginning of bathing is actually promoted to the etiquette, for example, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, generally only some high-level figures will take a bath when meeting some important guests, at that time, in fact, there is already a saying of bathing and burning incense. In the Warring States period, there was usually a special place for high-ranking people to bathe in the court, and there were also special official positions. <>

It was not until the Qin and Han dynasties that there was a rule that you must wash your hair once every three days and take a bath once every five days. But in fact, this is only for some officials, for which the imperial court also gives these people a "bathing holiday" once a month. In fact, it is impossible for ordinary people to take a bath once every five days, mainly because of the constraints of the conditions at that time.

First of all, in ancient times, most of the ordinary peasants' living conditions were relatively poor, and some even had a shortage of daily drinking water, not to mention excess water for bathing. <>

At that time, some people may want to drink clean water, and need to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads to fetch water, these water sources are not easy to obtain for them, and ordinary people will not be willing to use these water for bathing. Secondly, if you want to take a bath, then you must have hot water, and in ancient times, some cow dung or firewood was generally used to heat, and these things had to be picked up by the people themselves, so it was not easy to come by. <>

However, with the development of the times, in modern society, people's living conditions have been quite good, and there are more and more bathing tools, for example, after work, we can comfortably soak in the bathtub in the hot bath, or we can also directly open the shower to take a hot shower. Compared with the people in ancient times, our life can be regarded as very good.

The ancients mainly took a bath once a week, and of course, there was no problem for families with conditions to wash every day.

It also depends on the weather conditions, although there were no showers and water heaters in ancient times, but there were wooden barrels, which could also be used to boil hot water, and you can also use wooden barrels to take a bath.

In ancient times, the first half a month holiday, becoming a bath holiday, is the meaning of washing and scrubbing, but if it is convenient, it may also be once every two or three days.

The ancients had a bathtub for bathing, and the rich people generally bathed with flower petals or something, and there was no regulation on the number of baths, and the poor people's homes were inconvenient to take a bath, so the number of times was relatively small.