In the Eastern Jin Dynasty people often took a bath in the river on that day to wash away bad luck.

在东晋时期，人们经常在这一天到河里洗澡，以洗掉坏运气。

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It is dangerous to bath in the river.

在河里洗澡很危险。

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Wang Xizhi wrote in his Lantingji Xu about how people took a bath and wrote poems while drinking from cups drifting along the river.

王羲之在他的《兰亭集序》中记录了人们如何洗澡，如何一边从沿河漂流的杯子中饮酒，一边作诗。

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Caroline Kay of the preservation trust said "structures such as this are not appropriate for the river basin in Bath".

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Last Sunday, I witnessed millions of bedraggled men, women and children, young and old, on their way to a holy bath trudging towards the river silently carrying their bare belongings in sacks and cheap rexine bags.

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