芬兰文萨乌那(Sauna)的原意是蒸汽浴。芬兰人喜欢洗澡,尤其是萨乌那。这种蒸汽浴的设备,一般是在室内放一个铁火炉,炉下生火,炉上放一些卵石。向烧热的卵石上泼冷水或喷自来水,使室内充满浓雾般的水蒸汽。人们入室后,马上就大汗淋漓,然后用桦树的枝叶蘸水轻拍大汗之身。据说,这样能使人非常舒适。蒸后,再行冲洗、擦身。洗萨乌那温度都很高,在室内蒸一会儿,就得到邻室去透透气再蒸。有的干脆在临海临湖的地方建立萨乌那,以便蒸后跳进 Finnish Sauna was originally designed as a steam bath. Finns like to take a shower, especially Sauna. This type of sauna equipment, usually in the room put an iron stove, fire under the furnace, the furnace put some pebbles. Cold water or spray tap water on the hot pebbles, making the room full of dense water vapor. After people enter the room, immediately sweating, and then use the branches and leaves of birch dipped in sweat body. It is said that this can make people very comfortable. After steaming, rinse again, rub the body. Wash Sauna temperature is very high, steamed in the room for a while, you get the next room to breathe and steaming. Some simply in the sea near the lake to build Sauna, in order to steamed after jumping