What is the most important place in the house? ' I suppose everyone would call a living room, living room, etc. I think I should say bathroom-toilet. I have a special interest and sensitivity in this part of the house, not only at home but also at the places I go, even if I have no job, I will go and see how it is furnished. For example, in a sushi restaurant I went to with my friend, I praised it so much that he suggested it to his sister next time he went, saying 'you should go see it'; I think the importance attached to a place is evident from its bathroom. A bath session accompanied by water and aromatic scents is also a meditation feature for the purification of the soul. While chatting with friends recently, this bathroom topic came up. In Paris, they mentioned that the nobility of the nobility was measured according to the duration of not being washed, and that they even developed perfume just to suppress the smell on them. No wonder they are the # 1 perfume maker today.
I did a little research on my curiosity about bathroom culture and came across interesting information as follows...
- In England of the 1500s, people took a bath once a year in May and got married in June because they didn't smell bad yet. The reason why the brides carried a bouquet of flowers was to suppress the smell on their bodies! The priority order of the bath, which they built in a barrel filled with hot water, was first of all the men of the house, then their sons and the remaining men, then women and children. It is useful to remind that they always use the same water while washing!
- In Paris, with the profession of 'bathers', two people each wandered the streets with a copper boat. He placed this copper in the houses of those who wanted to wash and carried hot water with a bucket. The ritual of washing order is similar to England ... The cost of washing in this way has led the people to bathe a number of times a year.
- Old baths in Greece were used as gathering places, having fun and eating.
- Roman Emperor Neron's mother and wife Popee took its place in history by washing with donkey milk, and the French historian Michelet described the situation of Rome as "Not a single bath was taken for a thousand years.
- With the Renaissance, the use of water in Europe was further distanced and the doctor decided whether to take a bath or not in the society accustomed to filth, because it was said that water carries germs and diseases.
- It was the 19th century that Europe started to regain the habit of bathing.
- While the construction of baths in Europe was discontinued in the 16th century, Turks started to make baths in the cities they bought with the importance of cleanliness in the Islamic world, and Evliya Çelebi said that there were 302 bazaar baths, 14.536 palaces and mansion baths in Istanbul in the 17th century.
