2. Shave all the hair on your body!

Well, if you think about it carefully, it doesn’t seem like a nude run for modern people. After all, it’s no longer a feudal era that emphasizes Sanzhen and Jiulie./Where isn’t there an island where 200 permanent residents live? The Taiwanese people seem to be actively learning from Europe and the United States recently, and have repeatedly opened illegal celestial camps in the suburbs of Taipei...

Well, now, after some efforts, the time travelers with the title of protagonist have basically abandoned their shame for public honor and threw away their clothes and moral integrity in the ancient Egyptian world. So isn't it basically okay?

Meow hahaha, unfortunately, there is another more shameful thing waiting for everyone - shaving!

Perhaps because of the hot and hot environment, Egyptians pay special attention to cleaning and are accustomed to shave off all hair and body hair that is prone to smearing dirt to avoid breeding of parasites such as lice and inducing various terrible diseases. The medical level of that era was also a tragedy.

But in this way, all men and women in Egypt naturally became bald, replaced by various wigs. Over time, bald and wearing wigs became a habit of ancient Egyptians. If the poor could not afford wigs, they would wrap a headscarf to replace them.

On the contrary, if someone has a lot of hair on his body and is not shaved, he will be humiliated and ridiculed by others, saying that he is dirty and unlike the Egyptians.

Readers who have read the comics will probably know that Ramsus and his sister in "The Sky Is the Red River" are regarded as alien by other Egyptian powerful people because they are of foreign descent and refuse to shave their heads. They are very rejected in the small circle of nobles.

What's worse is that the ancient Egyptians not only thought that their hair should be shaved, but also that their armpits and slaughter should not be spared, and the priests even had to shave their eyebrows.

In modern society, only men need to buy razors to shave. In ancient Egypt, both men and women need razors: men shave their beards and hairs under them at the same time, and women use razors to clean their vaginas specifically. Note that since all teenagers in ancient Egypt are all shave, then whether they are shave is no longer a personal slaughter, but like the beard on their faces, it has become something that everyone can see.

In this way, even if time travelers want to cut corners, they just shave their hair and don’t shave their hair. If they go out without shave, they will also be ridiculed by everyone, or they are considered foreign barbarians - the ancient Egyptians are very xenophobic!

Because the Bronze Age razors were very expensive and common families often couldn't afford them, they had to ask a barber for help. The barbers in ancient Egypt not only had to help people shave their heads, but also shave their armpits and shave their crotch, and both men and women had to shave their crotch - don't misunderstand why the evil teacher!

I wonder what the male protagonists who want to push down the Egyptian girl will feel when facing these bald beauties? It feels like they are sleeping in nuns?

So, what would happen if the time traveler insisted on not shave his hair in ancient Egypt?

I'm afraid it will be very bad. First of all, it is regarded as an alien by the whole society, and it is hard to tell. Moreover, there was neither shampoo nor soap at that time. Even the earth recipe for igniting mugwort to repel mosquitoes was found - the rich would burn spices to repel mosquitoes, but the poor would definitely not afford it.

In this way, on the stuffy night in ancient Egypt, when you fall asleep, the wet sweat and hair are entangled together, which will attract many loving little bugs such as lice, making your skin red and swollen, your head full of bags, and even gets infected with some parasitic diseases that are difficult to cure at the time...

So, please respect local traditions and accept the humiliation obediently... Uh, no, accept shaving!

However, even if you abandon your shame, shaving your body hair was a very painful thing in ancient Egyptian society - there were neither laser hair removal nor electric razors, nor even a sharper steel knife. As depicted in "The Sky Is the Red River Bank", the iron tools at that time were still secret magic weapons of the Hittites. They were more expensive than gold that were heavier than gold, and no one would be willing to use them as a razor.

When iron smelting technology spread and steel prices dropped sharply, the ancient Egyptian civilization should almost perish.

——Even the early Roman legions, soldiers used bronze daggers, not to mention the earlier ancient Egyptians.

Therefore, the ancient Egyptians could only use very blunt bronze razors to remove hair (there were no scissors at that time, and the earliest scissors were invented by the Chinese during the Western Han Dynasty). Even this kind of copper razor did not appear until the Central Kingdom of Egypt, and there were only more miserable flint blades... Because using this backward knife alone would not shave cleanly, barbers usually had to prepare a pair of tweezers to directly pluck hair.

Now the problem arose. In ancient times, when there were no antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, the skin was cut off due to careless shave, which led to the wound being infected and suppurated, and eventually died. There have been many records in the East and the West. As we all know, the skin on our lower body is much more delicate and sensitive than the skin, and naturally it is easier to be injured by razors - so maybe it is a good thing if the razors in ancient Egypt were not powerful?

Well, in short, if you don’t have confidence in your craftsmanship, it’s better to find a barber with good craftsmanship and skills to shave your hair!

But no matter how skilled the ancient Egyptian barbers were in the shaving business, the simple tools were placed there, and it was impossible not to hurt.

In short, when you were looking for someone to shave in ancient Egypt, you could apply primitive soap first if you had the conditions - that is, animal fat and wood ash, but the poor still couldn't afford it - if you didn't have the conditions, just pour some water on it and wash it. Then the barber held a knife in one hand and pulled your hair with the other, slowly "saw" back and forth...

But because the bronze or flint blades are too blunt, even if you are in pain, you can't shave them clean. After shaving your hair several times, the barber will take out tweezers (similar to the candy cubes you hold now) and face the sun to help you pull out the remaining hairs one by one...

Hum? How painful is this? Just try to pull a tuft of hair under your crotch. It will definitely make you feel pain when you grind your teeth and your mouth is so painful.

What's even more serious is that if the master's skills are not good or happens to be in a state today, your lower body may be cut from blood, as if he had just come out of the "pure room" or "silk room" of the castrated eunuch.

It is precisely because the shaving work before the Iron Age was so painful that the Mayans who were still in the Stone Age usually applied their children with hot towels to their faces since childhood, so that they could never grow a beard. However, this method cannot be used on the reproductive organs, otherwise it will easily lead to sterilization.

Dear time travelers, especially female compatriots, given that the shaving service in ancient Egypt was so bad, it is best to go to the beauty hospital for laser hair removal throughout your body before crossing to the banks of the Nile!

(Speaking of this, I have always been curious about how Kelol and Xili shave their hair in ancient Egypt? Could it be that they are both born white tigers?)
Chapter completed!