As the saying goes, people have three emergencies, urinary urgency, stool urgency and fart urgency. Among them, the number of times is the most turbulent, after all, the process of holding back is intended to be painful. If you catch up with diarrhea, it's over, and a fart will become the last straw that crushes the camel.
And when it comes to these three emergencies, sometimes even if we find a solution, but because there is no paper in our pockets, we can only look at the pit and sigh, after all, we still do not have Indians who are bold and dare to challenge the last barren land of the body with our fingers.
Therefore, instead of rushing down to find a toilet, how to wipe your stomach is really an urgent need. In ancient times, before the paper appeared, how did those princes and nobles solve this physiological problem? And listen to the editor one by one to give everyone a word.
First look at china's ancient times, the earliest recorded "hand paper" is the "toilet chip" of the Three Kingdoms period, in today's more popular words is the churning stick, which is a kind of wooden strip or bamboo strip used to wipe filth after going to the toilet, which has a more detailed usage record in the "Southern Tang Book" and "Zizhi Tongjian".
In addition to the historical records, the related objects excavated at the archaeological excavation site also corroborate this. It is not difficult to imagine that the ancient people of the Western Han Dynasty squatted in the pit while reading books to pass the time, and after squatting, they tore off a few books to use as hand paper, which is the same as modern people taking mobile phones to the toilet, and wiping their stomachs with printing paper when there is no paper.
However, in the Tang Dynasty, the toilet chip was slowly abandoned by the royal family, and replaced by a kind of paper called coarse paper, that is, the kind of paper invented by Cai Lun, the originator of papermaking. However, due to the high cost, ordinary people still use toilet chips, and coarse paper can only be used by princes and nobles.
And that would only be China with papermaking and coarse paper, and what would foreign royalty and aristocrats use to wipe their butts? Let's look at Tsarist Russia, the extravagant life of the Tsar, a fact known to the whole world. But even the most luxurious would have stumbled upon the rubbing of his stomach, and it is recorded that Peter the Great used goose necks to wipe his ass.
Every time before the shit came, he would have the attendants slaughter a goose, and then cut off the goose's neck specifically for wiping the butt, which seemed a little cruel, especially when he diarrhea, the whole court goose was estimated to cry.
In contrast, the French royal family is much more humane. The King of France used a hemp rope to rub his stomach, which was hanging from the ceiling of the toilet to the ground, and the king directly picked up the rope after finishing the matter, synthesized a few strands, and then rubbed it back and forth between the crotches. Intriguingly, this rope is not cleaned, and it is not used by the king alone, but even the queen and her ministers, and even the attendants around the king, use this rope to rub their stomachs.
It sounds a bit disgusting, but the next thing to talk about is even more bizarre about Japan. The Brain Circuitry of the Japanese has always been clear, and it is consistent in the matter of rubbing the stomach. In the ancient world, you won't find a second country that wipes its butt with cicada wings like the Japanese imperial family.
As we all know, the wings of cicadas are quite thin, not to mention wiping their butts, even if they are held on the hand, they will be broken with a single force. In order to solve this problem, the Japanese deliberately soaked the cicada wings with a special potion and then dried them in the sun, so that the cicada wings had toughness. In addition, because the cicada wings are transparent, the Japanese firmly believe that if there is anything wrong with the digestive tract, you can see the signs by rubbing the cicada wings on the stomach.
It sounds quite exquisite, but the cost of rubbing your stomach is too high, how many cicada wings do you need to fold last time in the toilet? I am afraid that only the emperor himself at that time knew. On the whole, it is still the most civilized way for our emperors to wipe their butts, and it is also the closest to the modern way.
Today, with the exception of India, the world uses hand paper. And when modern people are in the toilet, after the end of the use of paper clouds light wind to remove the filth, who can think that the ancients experienced such a rugged ups and downs.