
The Tang Dynasty
You're Dead to Me
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How to Wash Your Armpits
As a tongue official, you'd get once every ten days off to do the full bath. Buddhists were actually pretty good about washing tey. It seems that taoists were a little bit less into bathing because they felt that was something that might encourage disease by exposing your skin to potential pathagans. Maybe in terms of dental hygiene, one of the things you could do, and that was highly encouraged, would be chewing on certain kinds of wood.
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