Comedy gets inspiration from China s bathhouse culture By Xu Fan | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-11 15:56 Share
Bath Buddy. [Photo provided to China Daily]
When director Yi Xiaoxing went to a public bathhouse with his friends, he had a novel experience of the scrub-dirt service, a prevailing type of service in northern China, for the first time.
Typically, in scrub-dirt service a worker wraps a towel on one hand, and scrubs the customer s body before giving a massage. For most locals in northern China, it is complete relaxation.
Rejuvenated by the experience, Yi did more research and discovered this service could date back to hundreds of years ago, which inspired him to write the script of his latest comedy,