Take a hot bath for the New Year
Xue Hongxin. 
When I enter the wax moon, I will think of the bath when I was a child......
At that time, there was not even a decent toilet at home, let alone an indoor bathroom. Throughout the winter, it is difficult for adults and children to take a bath. The body is really dirty, taking advantage of the good day to poison, use firewood to boil a large pot of hot water, find a sheltered firewood stack, use a large basin of water, wipe the body. The washed water was filthy, in my grandmother's words, "worse than the water in the stinking gutter."
One year, I took the clothes I wanted to change into and went to the bathhouse with a few people in the village to take a bath. When I walked into the bathhouse, the whole bathhouse was full of clouds and mist, and everyone was naked, which scared me back a few steps. The adults who came with me hurriedly said, "This is the bathhouse." They all went to wash, I was still grinding and chirping, I took off my clothes, and stood under the "whoosh" faucet to wash, "Wow! "It's so comfortable, the water temperature is just right, from top to bottom, I washed it several times before washing the dirt off my body. Finally, let the water flow quietly on the body, and it feels very comfortable! I think it would be nice if I could take a bath like this at home in the future.
However, it was much more convenient to take a bath in the summer then. There are several potholes in the village, which are natural bathing grounds for our children and our only place of recreation.
Midsummer is coming, we children are sweating outside and dirty, and the pits and natural canals are our best choices. As soon as I took off my clothes, I got into the pit with a bare belly, swimming, piercing, and fighting in the water, you splashed me, I splashed you, and had a lot of fun. Also play swimming competition, "Ready, Start". See who swam to the opposite shore first, and the one who loses learns to bark three times. I swim slowly, and the barking of the dog often comes out of my mouth, causing everyone to laugh, and the sound of laughter, splashing water, and fighting is mixed together, bringing joy to the silent pit. There are fish and shrimp in the pond, where there is shade, small fish playing, one moment up, one moment down, one moment far, one moment near, will peck your feet around you, itchy, like someone giving you a massage, wonderful! From the sunset to the sunset, it wasn't the adults who came to shout for dinner, we refused to get up, we simply forgot the time.
When I was a child, the winter was inevitable, at that time, the economy was poor, the materials were scarce, there was a lack of clothes and clothing, and many children cried in winter. In the middle of the night, the moon turned a little west, the family dog slept, the firecrackers in every house also slept, the stars in the sky did not sleep, and the moon did not sleep. It's all easy to say, it's cold to add clothes and bake the fire, but what to do when you take a bath? At that time, there were no toilets, no running water, and no bath bombs.
It was not that people at that time did not want to take a bath, but they did not dare to take a bath. I remember that at that time, adults urged them to take a bath during the New Year, and the children were always so slow that they didn't take a bath for a winter. After the new year, there was no way, under the repeated urging of adults, I had to pick a good day on a poisonous day, boil a big pot of hot water, move the big wooden basin where I washed clothes at home to the kitchen kang, pour boiling water, and then take off my clothes. Although the hot water was constantly added halfway, it was still so cold that his teeth were ringing, and he washed it in a hurry, regardless of whether he washed it or not, and hurriedly put on his clothes, which eased his strength.
Time has passed, hurried for decades, whether it is urban or rural, earth-shaking changes have taken place, now, almost every household in the countryside has a bathroom, have installed bath bombs, have water heaters, take a bath, comfortable and warm.
Nowadays, it is convenient for people to take a bath, and every household is either solar or water heater, and they can take a bath every day all year round. As soon as you turn on the faucet, adjust the temperature, and the warm water that is neither hot nor cold "whoosh" DC. From head to toe, people who have worked hard all day, take a shower, suddenly feel light and refreshed, and the fatigue of the day disappears.
Taking a bath at the end of the year, for children, bath water is called "Daji water", which means that they can grow up healthily in the new year. In addition, Chinese New Year's Eve bathing is also called "washing Daji water".
Bathing on Chinese New Year's Eve also symbolizes the farewell to the old and welcoming the new, removing the bad luck and bad luck of the old year, and bringing good luck and auspiciousness to the new year. This is because Chinese New Year's Eve is the last night of the year and the beginning of the first morning after the year, when people wash their hair and take a shower to cleanse themselves and welcome the new year with a new look.
Xue Hongxin, male, middle ** member. He has published personal anthologies such as "The Dream of Xiaohe", "Mother-in-law is Dad", "Ke Jinle", and his works are scattered in "People's Literature", "Story Club", "Story World", "Folk Literature", "Ancient and Ancient Legend Story Edition", "Legendary Story", "Ancient and Modern Story Newspaper", "Contemporary Literature", "Henan**", "Xinxiang**", "Pingyuan Evening News" and other hundreds of newspaper and periodical network platforms, and now works for the Yuanyang County Urban Management Bureau, a member of the Yuanyang County Elderly Scholar Group, and the vice chairman of the Yuanyang County Writers Association.