Unique living customs of the Yao people in Guangxi: Yao family waist bath
Walking into Qianli Yaoshan, the most pleasant and unforgettable thing is the Yao family's waist basin. What is a waist basin? It is a special wooden bath basin in every household in the Yao family. It looks like a pig's waist (the dialect of pig kidney). Waist bath, naturally, is to take a bath with a waist basin.
Speaking of bathing, I don't know how much life takes. Their methods vary according to living habits and equality in life, ranging from wooden barrels, wooden basins, iron buckets, iron basins to bathtubs, utensils to public baths, steam saunas and mandarin duck baths for corrupt officials, etc. However, in the Yao family, which has simple and clean customs, they have followed a good living custom for generations and regarded bathing as a major event. Take a bath every day regardless of summer, autumn and winter. The way to take a bath is different and unique. It is not a shower or a sitz-bath, but a sleeping bath in a waist basin. Most of the Yao family live in deep mountains and forests and are familiar with various Chinese grasses. Every Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, Yao compatriots pick back all kinds of grass and throw in some grass when burning and bathing. After bathing, they can eliminate fatigue, dispel diseases, refresh themselves, and strengthen the body. This may be the original origin of the Yao family fumigation therapy. No wonder every Yao family is strong and strong, and few have patients, but every Yao family is like a lotus flower, graceful and graceful. The reason may be due to the Yao family's unique waist basin sleeping bath bar.
Every household in the Yao family has a large wooden basin, which is about one meter tall and about 2.5 meters in diameter. Such a large waist basin is probably difficult to see in cities where showers and basins are used. The Yaojia firewood is convenient. For the convenience of burning, only a cloth curtain is used to separate the bathroom from the stove. The bathroom is a suspended building. If it collapses after bathing, you don't have to worry about blocking the lower road. The Yao family has its own rules for bathing: first, when you are old, then you reach the younger generation; first, your son, and last. It can be seen that the Yao family's custom of respecting the old and the young and the virtuous kindness of the Yao family women are so vivid and clear.
When guests arrive at the Yao's house, it is not difficult to make tea in a large bowl. A bath must be arranged before dinner. Guests must not want guests, and they must not be pushed and dragged because it is inconvenient for everyone to enter, otherwise they will violate the Yao's bathing rules. After the hospitable female owner scooped up a basin for the guests to wash her face, she poured it into the waist basin, cooled it, and placed bath towels, soap, and slippers. At the same time, she also placed a bucket next to the waist basin for customers to mix it. Enter the waist basin made of press shape and lie down and take a bath. It is very comfortable. This place is absolutely pure natural and free from any pollution. You can wash it with confidence, you can get it cold and you can wash it all you want. In the kitchen room across the curtain, the female owner is busy having a sumptuous dinner. At this moment, your shyness and superiority of modern civilization will disappear with the bath. There is only the word "holiness" in your heart. The skin is clean and the soul is clean. Is this taking a bath? No, I am letting you experience the simple and honest customs of the Yao family.
After taking a bath, when you are relaxed and refreshed, the Lord has prepared a sumptuous dinner party, including the fragrant Panwang wax and the fragrant melon wine...