Traditional toilets are no strangers to China people. At present, the earliest drowning device, the tiger, has been unearthed from the mound tomb of Wangjiashan, Jianbi, Zhenjiang City. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the anonymity of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu, the tiger was turned into a girl, and then gradually evolved into a toilet.
In the Qing Dynasty, the imperial palace used toilets uniformly, and the toilets of emperors and queens were called official residences. It was recalled in Notes to Maids that the official residence of Empress Dowager Cixi was a large gecko inlaid with precious stones, which was filled with fragrant wood powder, leaving no peculiar smell when used.
This is the toilet tool of Cixi. At that time, it was very tall.
Toilets in Cixi, Dong Jian, Palace of Gathered Elegance
Not to mention the first monarch in history who drowned in a cesspit. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Ru, a Qi Huangong of the State of Jin, estimated that ancient toilets were built with a row of wooden boards on a cesspit. It stinks in summer, and the cold wind freezes people in winter, so I have to be afraid of falling.
Such a dry toilet, in the Japanese shogunate harem two thousand years later. It still exists in Da 'ao, a skyscraper toilet for the general's wife. The Japanese magical brain circuit thought that the general's wife's filth could not be seen, so they dug a toilet pit as deep as ten floors and installed a fence to prevent a tragedy like Kim.
The risk of going to the toilet is not only falling, but also being attacked by animals, mostly pigs. Jiaji, Emperor of Han Dynasty, was attacked by a wild boar in the toilet while driving to Shanglinyuan. Although wild boar is an example, most toilets in Han Dynasty were connected with pigsty. The green glazed pottery pigsty of the Eastern Han Dynasty collected by Hunan Provincial Museum shows this kind of environmentally friendly public toilet for raising pigs on the second floor and downstairs. Yes, pigs eat human excrement, which sounds disgusting, but this kind of pig toilet has been extended to the countryside in the last century and has become the childhood shadow of many people.
The inventor of the first toilet in the world was Sir John Harington of England. He made one for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I. From the replica, this all-wood toilet looks like a grand piano, which is expensive, has a lot of waste water and smells bad. However, compared with the medieval times when nobles urinated everywhere and the streets were full of feces, this toilet has obviously knocked on the door of modern bathrooms.
Now sitting on the modern toilet in the modern bathroom, if you still remember a little history, you should be moved to tears, because there are white and soft toilet paper to use.
That's not a bamboo stick called toilet paper in your hand. In that era when paper was extremely precious, people in China used bamboo sticks or wooden sticks as toilet paper, and even in the Tang Dynasty, they were still using toilet paper to wipe dirt. At that time, hemorrhoids patients were really pitiful.
This is not an ancient Roman stick. In public toilets in ancient Rome, people wiped them with wooden sticks with sponges tied at the front. The terrible thing is that this wooden stick is still open. After one person uses it, wash it in the pool or wooden bucket and give it to the next person.
How did the ancients go to the toilet?
It can't afford the consumption of expensive fabrics, even though French poetry in the sixteenth century shouted velvet. Thank god, take the toilet paper, I am so grateful.
Ben is a naive person who misses the past and fantasizes about walking in the court of the Tang Dynasty with jewels and nepotism. I also fantasized about whale bones with slender waist, wearing flared skirts and holding folding fans, dancing in the magnificent Palace of Versailles; I even yearn to wear a wig, decorate my eyes carefully, dress myself up with gold and jewels, and be a female Pharaoh. However, this naive fantasy is often vulnerable to the truth of history.
The way the ancients went to the toilet, this baby candidly admit defeat!
I'd rather stay in modern times just for a toilet. An ordinary person's toilet experience will surpass that of any ancient emperor.
Sitting on the toilet in a clean and safe bathroom, there is no hairpin jewelry and no fresh clothes jewelry, but sitting on this toilet, at this moment, is like a queen.