According to the "Zuo Biography", during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a monarch named Jin Jinggong in the Jin Dynasty, and one day he felt that his stomach was very bloated after eating some wheat products, so he ran to the toilet, and no one expected him to fall into the pit and drown...
Behind this story that makes people feel sad and funny, it also reveals that the toilet at that time was actually quite simple, and even the king of a country had the risk of drowning, which is far from being comparable to our current toilet.
With this topic, let's talk about the strange toilet culture of ancient times.
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1, ancient strange toilet culture 1: why is the toilet built on the pigsty?
We call the toilet, often called it "thatched toilet", "thatched pit", washroom, washroom, etc., and in ancient times, the toilet was also called "溷藩", "圂圂 toilet", where this toilet represents the meaning of cleanliness, 溷和圂 both toilet and pigsty.
In other words, in ancient times, the ancients had the custom of building toilets on top of pigsty.
Some friends who have lived in the countryside should have seen the configuration of the pigsty and the toilet together, and the old man told me that this was done to facilitate the cleaning and fermentation of manure.
In ancient times, the ancients were more direct, they built pig pens directly under the toilet, so that human manure became pig food, and pig manure became fertilizer when we planted crops.
Compared with digging a pit in the Xia Dynasty and flushing toilets in the Western Zhou Dynasty, I personally feel that this model is quite green if you don't consider eating...
This mode of combining farming and breeding can be said to adapt to the background of the times when productivity was low, farmers lacked fertilizer in planting land, and pigs were short of grain.
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In the Qin and Han dynasties, people's concept of hygiene was strengthened, and in order to reduce the occurrence of open defecation among urban residents, the number of public toilets and family toilets in the city increased.
What is more interesting is that in the two Han Dynasties, the concept of male and female toilets has already appeared.
Some of the toilets built in the city, although still the pattern of the upper toilet and the lower pigsty, can already clearly see the development of toilet culture at that time.
However, although this ecologically recyclable development model can make more efficient use of urban space, we can also imagine the huge impact of mosquitoes, flies and odors once the temperature is high in the summer...
It's almost Resident Evil, probably, which is why this model is gradually being eliminated.
2, ancient strange toilet culture two: what did the ancients use to wipe their butts?
Regarding the matter of going to the toilet, the more elegant saying is called convenience and hand washing in modern times, and in ancient times, it is called making a gong, changing clothes, and going to the toilet.
Now when we go to the toilet, we usually scrub our butts with toilet paper or clean water, but even in twenty or thirty years ago, in remote places, toilet paper was a luxury.
So, in ancient times, what did the ancients use to wipe their butts?
In the primitive period, the ancients certainly did not have the concept of wiping their butts, and when our ancestors found that cleaning personal hygiene can reduce diseases and enhance personal image, they will also give priority to local materials, select some leaves with large and soft leaves, or flat but not sharp stones, wood chips and the like to wipe their butts.
Later, on this basis, a butt wiping tool called toilet chips was produced. This kind of tool is generally made of wood chips, bamboo chips, pure natural pollution, the ancients used it to wipe the ass, pay attention to the point of directly thrown away, some people will be cleaned and reused.
Later, with the development of papermaking and textile technology, some wealthy families began to use paper and cloth as tools to wipe their butts.
For example, during the Song Dynasty, there was a popular clean paper specially used to wipe farts.
Obviously, this is much easier to use than stone and pottery pieces.
3, ancient peculiar toilet culture three: selling dung can also make a lot of money, the underworld for it to fight;
When it comes to the Song Dynasty, there was also a very popular profession at that time: dung husband.
They were similar to our current city cleaners, who regularly carried manure trucks to clean up the excrement, bought the excrement in the city, cleaned the sewers, and then transported it out of the city and poured it into a deep brick pond to ferment.
The way of fermentation is very simple, the plants, domestic garbage is piled up and burned into ashes, mixed with manure juice, stored for a period of time can be used as agricultural fertilizer.
Relying on this, many people in ancient times also made a fortune.
During the Qing Dynasty, the dung men even divided their forces according to the streets, and they stipulated that if so-and-so wanted to engage in this industry, he must work according to the region.
Often, such industries were controlled by the gangsters at that time, and most of the dung men under their hands were hit workers.
These dung tyrants, after monopolizing the industry, formed associations and demanded that the residents of the streets must pay the cleaning fee or go on strike.
It was because they were too greedy that the profession was gradually replaced by officially hired cleaning staff.
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