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Various kinds of greetings and parting words have long existed in different languages world, among various peoples and tribes. Many of them go back to the faith of ancient people in the power of the word, in its fairy magic. It was believed that what was expressed in a stable form of good wishes would definitely come true.

Ancient Russian greetings and wishes are associated with different aspects and occasions of life: meetings and farewells, refreshments, travel and business - hunting, fishing, etc.

A special place among Russian wish formulas is occupied by expressions related to the steamy village bathhouse. They wanted “light steam” for those going to take a steam bath (light steam, unlike damp, moisture-saturated, heavy and stuffy, is dry and fresh bath air, seasoned with the smell of kvass, mint and a traditional birch broom). Light steam - invigorating, giving health, popular belief, healing from all ailments. It’s not for nothing that in the old days they said: “the bathhouse is the second mother,” as well as “the bathhouse soars, the bathhouse rules,” “the bathhouse will fix everything.” "Enjoy Your Bath!" - a very old Russian greeting to someone who has just taken a steam bath or generally washed well.

There are many traditions among the people that are associated with everyday life person. And everything that concerns the bathhouse is generally sacred. So many rituals, traditions, signs and superstitions that are associated with the Russian bath cannot be found anywhere else. Moreover, we can no longer even remember the meaning of many traditions; we simply continue to do as our ancestors did, and wish each other what our grandparents wished for each other. Foreigners have never understood why Russian people attach such great importance to the usual procedure of washing the body.

Bathhouse is a ritual

After all, there are saunas and Turkish baths, but so many signs are not associated with them. Today, every apartment has a bathtub where you can wash yourself. But the bathhouse today remains a kind of cult, to which the Russian people are devoted and receive great pleasure from it all.

A Russian person goes to the bathhouse not only when he just wants to wash himself. Bath - during which not only the body, but also the soul is cleansed. It is believed that if a person has difficulty breathing in a steam room, it means that he has many diseases and sins. When a person takes a steam bath, both his sins and diseases that overcome the human body are washed away. It’s not for nothing that they say that a couple and a bathhouse can cure forty diseases. Previously, almost all diseases were treated with a bath, steam room, or steam. It was believed that if a person survived the hot steam, then he got rid of everything that weighed down his soul and body.

No matter what the builders of modern baths say, you can’t breathe easily in a steam room. Useful, yes, but not easy. In the old days, when there were no doctors yet, and only healers were involved in treating people, all diseases were treated with the help of a bath. After a sick person left the steam room, they always wished him “enjoy your steam.” This wish was akin to a happy birthday wish, because after getting rid of illnesses and sins, it was as if a person was truly born again. When you leave the steam room, the first breath of fresh air can only be compared to the first breath of a newborn.

Benefit for health

The bathhouse not only heals, but also hardens. The whole world is amazed that it is impossible to find more hardened and resilient people anywhere else than in Russia. Where do they get their strength from? But Russian people know the secret! Russian bathhouse is the key good health. No foreigner will go to the bathhouse if he has a bathtub at home. But nothing will stop a Russian person if he is called to the bathhouse. Bathroom, cleanliness, and that's all. What about health?

The best hardening of the body occurs in winter, when after a hot steam room you can jump out into the street and fall with your whole body in. For the first minute you don’t even feel the cold. It is in such moments that you can breathe easily and life becomes better. All over the world they are surprised how Russians steam in the bathhouse and drink vodka in unlimited quantities, and nothing happens to them. How can you even drink at such temperatures? But we do not perceive vodka as alcohol. Especially in the bathhouse. This is a medicine that helps maintain a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Every time we leave the bathhouse, we leave all our problems, illnesses, empty worries somewhere there, in past life. There was life before the bathhouse, and now after the bathhouse. And in this new life there is no place for old problems. Therefore, when we say: "Enjoy Your Bath!", then we mean that the person got rid of what weighed him down and prevented him from living peacefully. Now he should breathe easily, all his affairs will be easily resolved, and health problems will fade into the background. And most importantly, if there were people who wished this man harm, then their actions will also not affect the fate of the one who was cured by the steam.

Today, many people congratulate even those who have just taken a bath on their light steam. Whereas previously this expression was inextricably linked exclusively with bath procedures. What does it really mean? And where did it come from? There are several versions.

The second birthday

In ancient times, when most diseases were treated folk remedies, visiting the bathhouse was equated to healing procedures. It was believed that the bathhouse relieved a wide variety of ailments, including mental ones. Our ancestors believed that only sinners and sick people had difficulty breathing in the steam room. Therefore, they wanted a “light steam” even before entering the steam room.

"Enjoy Your Bath!" They also spoke to those who had already been cleansed from sins and illnesses with the help of a bath. After they got rid of their ailments, they began to breathe freely, as if they were born again. They were congratulated on this event.

Magic spell

According to mythology, a special brownie, a bannik, was in charge of everything in the bathhouse. It was to him that our ancestors attributed all the troubles that happened in the steam room. He could not only burn people with boiling water or throw stones from a heater, but also make the steam so heavy that it became difficult to breathe in the bathhouse. In order to protect the one who was going to the steam room from the tricks of the bannik, they wanted an “easy steam”. Thus, they seemed to persuade the bathhouse brownie not to play pranks and not spoil the steam.

Black sauna

For a long time in Rus' they washed only in the so-called black baths. In such baths there was no pipe on the roof. Smoke from the stove seeped between the stones and spread along the walls and ceiling of the steam room. This caused the internal surfaces in the bathhouse to turn black. Hence the name.

The main enemy of a person in such a bathhouse was carbon monoxide, from the effects of which one could at least lose consciousness. This kind of steam was called heavy. That is why they used to want “easy steam.”

Light steam

In the Russian bathhouse, the hottest, and therefore the most desirable place was located almost under the ceiling. As you know, steam rises. It was precisely in order for it to reach the top shelf faster, and they wished: “Easy steam!”

Down with disappointment!

As you know, a Russian bath differs from a sauna in its increased humidity. So in a sauna this value does not exceed 20%, while in a steam room it is in the range of 40-60%. Therefore, breathing in a Russian bath is much more difficult than in a sauna: the air seems heavy.

After visiting the bathhouse, many felt tired and disappointed. Therefore, it was at this moment that they were congratulated on their light steam, thereby suggesting that in fact the procedure went well and their well-being only improved.

Excerpts from films emerge from my memory, where people stupidly beat themselves and their comrades with brooms in the best case, and in the worst case this is accompanied by copious libations in honor of Bacchus.

From a medical point of view, this is not Light Vapor, but a mockery of a still healthy body.

The concept of light steam came in the educational era of Emperor Peter Alekseevich, when, along with chicken baths, red bathhouses began to be built. The difference between the former was that when burning, the smoke did not come out through the chimney, but, spreading throughout the entire room, exited through small holes in the ceiling, called fiber windows. It is clear that it was necessary to maintain a golden mean - not to inhale carbon monoxide and not to go steam when all the smoke comes out, and accordingly the temperature drops, and the process will be like a modern wash in the bathroom, where you can use various erotic souvenirs.

Brave people went to steam when “the smoke stood like a rocker.” When inhaling this truly hellish mixture for the body, consisting of carbon monoxide dissolved in water particles, fainting often occurred or after a while headaches began, so the desire for light steam in those days was, as they say, not superfluous. The use of chimneys in the construction of a bathhouse or soap house, as they were also called, the dose decreased significantly, now you could whip yourself with a broom until you stupefied yourself and give in to the steam.

Light steam cannot be achieved without a competent heater.

The choice of stones for this is a whole science. Not every stone is equally useful and must be dark in color, without veins and small inclusions of quartz. When soaked, it should dry evenly and have a round shape. Otherwise, troubles may not be avoided during the procedure: the wrong stone may crack when heated and injure the unlucky bathhouse attendant with fragments. True, progress does not stand still and the ingenuity of Russian people knows no bounds. Instead of a long search for stones on the river bank, a savvy Russian man uses insulators from high-voltage transmission lines. The effect is the same as when using first-class stones.

It’s sad to watch the hapless bathhouse attendants who whip themselves on their bodies with brooms, it is unclear where they bought them and when they were broken. Exactly when, because a broom has medicinal properties if it is prepared in a certain period. In some areas, a broom broken down to a church level was considered first-class when a birch or linden or oak tree is soft and contains substances in its foliage that have a beneficial effect on our body. Such substances are also used in massage oils to ensure that the human body receives maximum energy.

I'll tell you one more secret: The broom should be soaked 30-40 minutes before coming to the steam room, preferably in a wooden tub. In this case, upon entering the steam room, you will be greeted by the incomparable smell of a Russian bathhouse.

Light steam in the Bathhouse is the main thing!

Well, now we have reached the main thing in the bathhouse. And the main thing in a bathhouse is the steam, everything else is the surroundings. Three simple advice for beginners:

1. Do not pour cold water on the heater, as the steam will not be at the proper temperature;
2. Do not pour boiling water, otherwise the skin pores will not open immediately.
3. The optimal water temperature is the one in which our broom was steamed. With this we immediately kill two birds with one stone: we get the desired temperature in the steam room for the first session and the smell of a truly natural character is incomparable with chemical essences that are commercially available.

This is just the tip of the iceberg called bathing procedures. It’s no wonder that experienced bathhouse attendants are worth their weight in gold. I hope that after this short article, when you hear the sacramental phrase “ Enjoy Your Bath", its meaning will be clear to you.

Everyone knows the expression "Enjoy Your Bath". But not many people know what it means. Meanwhile, this expression has a special sacred meaning. Washing in a bathhouse used to be considered a ritual that relieved troubles and troubles. And parting words after taking the water procedure reinforced the entire effect of the magical steam of the bath. Why do people want “light steam” after a bath or bath?

The history of this expression goes back to antiquity. The bathhouse used to be considered special place, and they went there not only to wash themselves, but also to cleanse their souls of energetic dirt. That is, washing in a bathhouse is a kind of ritual, during which both the body and soul are cleansed.

Previously, it was believed that if a person has difficulty breathing in a steam room, then he has accumulated a lot of negativity, illnesses or sins. They said about the bathhouse: “With steam and a bathhouse, forty diseases come out” . In the old days, many diseases were treated with steam, in a bathhouse. It was believed that if a person survived the hot steam, then he got rid of everything that weighed down his soul and body. This can be seen even in folk customs- in front of the big ones church holidays people were more willing to go to the baths to celebrate the holiday with a clean body and soul.

Bath lovers know that one cannot breathe easily in a steam room. If a person went to the bathhouse to cure diseases, remove negativity and the evil eye, then upon leaving the bathhouse he was certainly told: "Enjoy Your Bath!". This wish used to be akin to a happy birthday wish, since after getting rid of negative energy, a person was truly reborn.

When saying “Have fun!”, keep in mind that the person got rid of everything that weighed him down and prevented him from living happily. Now he should breathe easily and freely, and his health problems should disappear.

Having been in a sauna or taking a hot bath, a person seems to be throwing off the burden of heaviness accumulated during the day. It is with such thoughts and intentions that you should visit steam rooms, saunas and baths. Then water procedures will not only cleanse the body, but also invigorate, improve mood, health and help to let go of negative emotions. We wish you good luck and don't forget to press the buttons and

23.04.2015 09:20

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