It sounds like a weird plan.

If you're looking to take your wellness journey to the next level, consider bathing in a vat of wine.

From Japan to Argentina, spas have started to add pools filled

with red wine. Of course, it's fairly watered down, and there are a few other ingredients thrown in,

but the optics are still pretty fun. Like I said, it sounds a bit odd, but the concept has been

around a lot longer than you'd think. In fact, bathing in wine was common back in the ancient world, but for them, it was less about

health and more about indulgence.

The most infamous example comes from China's Shang dynasty during the reign of Emperor Zhou.

He had started out as a decent ruler, but had slowly fallen into corruption

and greed. And most of Zhou's own court historians lay the blame for this change at the feet of

the emperor's favorite consort, Daji. Apparently, Daji's hunger for opulence knew no bounds. So,

one day, she told Jo to build her a lake filled with wine,

and he was so completely bewitched by her beauty that he did exactly what she asked.

The pool was large enough to fit multiple canoes,

and featured a small island in the middle covered in trees made of skewers of meat.

They called it creatively the lake of wine and

forest of meat. The emperor, his lover, and all their friends would float around in their

canoes, stuffing their faces, and getting tipsy. The parties there were legendary. According to

one chronicler, Zhou once invited over 3,000 guests and told them to

chase each other in the nude. When one of his concubines protested, he had her executed. And naturally,

this legend is pretty hard to verify. Back in 1999, archaeologists thought they had uncovered

the lake of wine, but they weren't absolutely certain.

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