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371. Chapter 370 Public bathhouse

After the "Upgrading Management Committee" on the island issued a notice on "About Adjusting the Electricity Arrangement of Residents on the Island", the situation of too low voltage did not appear again. However, it seems that the problem has been solved on the surface, but if other electricity production projects are launched, the power gap that has finally been blocked will be opened again.

So at the first meeting held after Huangshi came back, Chen Youxin reflected on the "power shortage" phenomenon encountered in the past month, and also reported on their specific arrangements for solving this problem later.

Huangshi took the "electricity arrangement" notice they drafted. When he saw that the content was written in vernacular and the format was also standardized in modern official documents, he nodded and expressed his gratitude, "Yes, your notice is well written. I can understand it. Can the people below them understand it?"

I saw that the first line above read "Dongluo Island (1558)026",

The second line is the title "Notice on the Response to Adjust the Electricity Arrangement of the Island Residents".

The third line starts with the specific content, "Dear Dongluo Island residents: Since the current electricity supply on our island has shortage of electricity for a short period of time, in order to ensure everyone's safe and orderly electricity use, we hereby notify you as follows:..."

"You can understand it, everyone can understand it."

Huangshi was a little funny. When they heard his questions, they nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and did not continue this question, because this was the 26th notice issued on the island, and the contents of the previous 25 notices were drafted by him and copied by Li Chengpeng.

As the saying goes, "If you read three hundred Tang poems well, you will be able to recite them even if you can't write poems." After reading Huangshi's notices and announcements, the leader gave them a book "Modern Official Document Writing Standards", it is naturally not difficult to write a notice manuscript "From the Cat and the Tiger" again.

The content of the book "Modern Official Document Writing Standards" is very practical. It is divided into four pieces to introduce the basic knowledge of official document writing, including the 13 normative official documents stipulated in the "Regulations on the Handling of Official Documents of State Administrative Organs", as well as the meaning, characteristics, classification, format and writing methods of 9 commonly used official documents in daily work, as well as official document processing procedures.

The content of the book is very concise and complete in the system. It can be said that it is standardized in format, concise in language, rich in examples, and has strong exemplary, guiding and practicality. It is generally used as a textbook for writing official documents in ordinary colleges and universities, various vocational colleges, party schools at all levels, and administrative management cadre schools. It is also suitable for staff of various party and government organs, social groups, enterprises and institutions as one of the reference books for the guidance committee for official documents writing. Therefore, it was applied to the education and training of managers at all levels on the island by Huangshi.

As for the contents of the "Regulations on the Handling of Official Documents of the Communist Party of China" and "Measures for the Handling of Official Documents of the State Administrative Organs" appended to the book, although it is very instrumental and directive, it is naturally not suitable for them to be shown word-of-mouthed. Therefore, Huangshi has allowed people to replace several modern organizational terms with words that suit the current situation.

If some modern people saw this trick of making a comedy, they would definitely find it funny in their hearts. However, for these people in the 16th century, they did not have the original preconceived impressions, so they did not think there were too many strange things.

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After the conference, Huangshi disappeared for two more days. When he came back, he notified Jiang Laogan, Niu Dali, Ding San, Hu Zhentian and their men to gather outside the "Popular Bathhouse" the next day.

Because I heard that the leader was just looking for them and the construction workers the next day, Niu Dali thought that Huangshi was going to discuss with them about the skill salary level. Yixiao was so excited that he didn't sleep well. However, after waiting outside the "Volkswagen Bathroom" and seeing the leader understand the situation, he realized that this was not the case. The leader was going to ask them to install solar water heaters and lay the concrete floor of the bathhouse.

After Huangshi told them, he continued, "Let's go to the roof of the 'Volkswagen Bathhouse'."

"Popular Bathroom" is a public "bathroom". The name is still from Huangshi. He originally wanted to call it "hot spring bathhouse". When he was a child, he took a bath in the "hot spring bathhouse" in winter, so he was particularly impressed.

However, Dongluo Island is not Fuzhou Prefecture, and there is no geothermal hot spring. If you call this name, it will be inconsistent with the name. If it is called "People's Bathhouse", Huangshi feels a little awkward, so he took the four words "Popular Bathhouse".

Bathing is not a simple little thing. As Liang Shiqiu, a writer in the Republic of China, said, "We Chinese have always regarded bathing as a big thing." As early as 3,000 years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty, before worshiping gods and ancestors, they had to bathe and show their piety, and called it "precept". The precepts of the Western Zhou Dynasty were very grand and sophisticated, and were in charge of full-time officials. The bathing etiquette in the pre-Qin period was already very complete, and the princes had to wash their hair and take a bath first before they could go to see the emperor.

In the prosperous period of the Han and Tang dynasties, the court had more etiquette for bathing, and the position of "hot spring supervisor" appeared, responsible for the affairs of the royal soup pool. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a special bathing management agency "Huntangsi". Bathing was a serious religious and even political activity in China at that time, and the appearance of officials was closely related to "political civilization".

After leaving the temple, bathing is connected with people's living standards. The Book of Rites specifically stipulates that the etiquette of respecting the elderly must include boiling water and bathing for the elderly, taking a bath every five days, and washing your hair every three days. The bathing procedures for ordinary people, bathing at birth and funerals, also have detailed rules.

However, taking a bath is also a rule. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, in the late spring, the river was rushing to get rid of diseases and disasters, and evolved into the later spring outings of the whole people. At the same time, taboos are everywhere, men and women do not bathe together, and they do not share the same towel. Father and son bathe differently, monarch and minister bathe differently, and those with different identities, generations, and status also bathe differently.

The "public bathhouse" in the city began to appear in the Song Dynasty when the urban economy was developing greatly. We can see in the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", there was a bathhouse among the shops. The great writer Su Shi also wrote "Ru Meng Ling" after taking a bath in the "public bathhouse". From his words and phrases of "message to wipe people back", it can be seen that the "public bathhouse" at that time had already had complete services.

Later, after the Mongolians entered the Central Plains, they changed their past habit of taking baths and built public bathhouses in the capital and cities. However, under the influence of feudal hierarchical concepts, the bathhouse industry was listed as the "lower nine-class". In fact, the emergence of the bathhouse industry was a social progress and an inevitable result of urban development and commercial economic prosperity.

In the Qing Dynasty, although the structure of the bathhouse was inherited from the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it was slightly modified and became the later bathhouse model. It was divided into several grids in the large pool, from hot to warm, and a "doll pool" was installed. The pool was small and not hot, so it was suitable for children to take a bath. The bathhouse was equipped with a wardrobe and a lounge chair.

However, this kind of leisure life of "covering water in the morning and water in the afternoon", taking a bath, rubbing your back, a cigarette, a cup of tea, lying in your seat and sleeping comfortably" is not a life that everyone in the era can live. In ancient times, most people in ancient times only brought their own buckets, wooden basins, plus soap beans or pancreas to take a bath.

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Therefore, when they heard that these two mobile houses with one floor height and about 200 square meters were used for "public bathhouses". They heard Mr. Chen and Mr. Zhang, who were knowledgeable, said that in Nanjing, there was a "public bathhouse" called "Wengtang". It is said that it was built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

One theory is that when the city wall was built in the early Ming Dynasty, it was built to solve the bathing problem of more than 200,000 migrant workers. Another theory is that it was built for foreign envoys and dignitaries to take baths. It was the most advanced bathhouse in the Ming Dynasty and was attached to the Dabaoen Temple of Jinling.

However, no matter what kind of legend it is, the leader has also built a "public bathhouse". Unfortunately, this one called "public bathhouse" locked the door after hanging up the sign, making everyone unable to take a look at the situation inside.

Now that the leader has returned and asked them to go to the roof of the "Popular Bathroom" again, Niu Dali was wondering if this bathhouse was about to be opened.

Sure enough, after the iron ladder behind the bathhouse went up to the roof, the leader transformed a steel frame with a large round barrel, and the colored steel plate pressed on the roof of the bathhouse made a "rattle".

Although I guessed in the previous article that this thing might be the magic weapon the leader mentioned, Niu Dali still asked, "Chief, is this the 'solar water heater'?"

"Yes." Huang Shi nodded, pointed to the "solar water heater", and said to them, "This has been assembled for you, and there are still a few unassembled ones. I'll take out the spare parts and teach you how to install them."

It turned out that in the past two days when Huangshi disappeared, in addition to purchasing water heaters, he also learned how to assemble the equipment. The steps were not too complicated, but how to fix it on the roof was a bit troublesome. So he called all the managers of the construction team to follow him to learn how to assemble it, and also studied how to better fix it.

"Yes, the chief." So everyone sat down on the roof at Huangshi's warning and heard the chief talk about the parts, installation, maintenance and other matters of these "solar water heaters".
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