Eating, drinking, and sleeping is a basic need of a person, and no one only eats and does not pull, which also violates the conservation of energy.
Modern people use the toilet to sit on the toilet, which is very hygienic and clean, and there is no odor, which is in line with the pursuit of modern people for aesthetic life. But in ancient times, the ancients did not have a toilet to sit on, so how did they go to the toilet? It's actually quite simple.
First dig a pit in the ground, and then put two wooden planks on it, so that it is convenient. It is a very simple toilet, very simple for the people. So how did the emperors in the palace go to the toilet?
The Forbidden City was the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the emperor's concubines lived in it. There are many rooms in the Forbidden City, but there are no toilets, which is very strange. I don't know what the person who designed the Forbidden City at that time thought, why not design some toilets?
The living cannot be choked to death by urine, and it cannot be said that there is no toilet in the Forbidden City, and it is inconvenient for those who live in it. There are tens of thousands of imperial concubines and eunuch palace women living in the Forbidden City, how are they convenient? Let the "shoveling officer" in the Forbidden City come and tell you about it.
Although there is no toilet in the Forbidden City, there is a thing called the "official room", which is the legendary toilet, which is specially designed for people to come to facilitate. The official house was made of sandalwood and emitted an aroma to cover up the odor.
Of course, the sandalwood was made for the emperor's concubines to use, and the eunuch palace women used it as ordinary, without special treatment.
The emperor would send some "shoveling officials" eunuchs to clean up these official houses, ensuring that each one was new and clean when used. There are many people in the Forbidden City, and there are also a lot of excrement generated every day, so where do these things go?
Every morning the "shoveler" would pull away yesterday's excrement and transport it outside the palace to find a fixed place to dispose of it.
This series of processes is a program, and every day someone is doing their own thing in each program, some are cleaning toilets, some are transporting garbage, and some are cleaning.
In the fourth part of the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", He Yan was sent by Qianlong to clean up these toilets. The audience can see that there are many toilets inside, and these toilets are used to make the emperor's concubines convenient.
Nowadays, people enjoy life more, and the toilet is designed to be automatic, without the need for a "shoveler" to clean up, which also greatly facilitates people's lives.
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References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Toilet Culture, A Brief History of Chinese Culture, etc