In "Kangxi Dynasty", Princess Rong was punished for brushing the toilet because she rebelled against Kangxi, and finally was smashed alive by the toilet. Although it is only a plot fabrication, the side reaction points out that the convenient use of the Qing Dynasty Palace is indeed a toilet.
The Forbidden City, also known as the Forbidden City, is the only well-preserved complex of buildings in the world made of wooden structures. The Forbidden City from Ming Chengzu Zhu Di to Ai Xin Jue Luo. Bo Yi lived in a total of twenty-four emperors, and has a history of more than 600 years.
At the same time, the existence of the Forbidden City also gives people the opportunity to understand a more real history, and the Forbidden City is now a national 5A tourist attraction.
But the Forbidden City, which has 8,707 houses, once prospered with almost tens of thousands of people working and working in it, and it is said that in ancient times there were no toilets.
As the old saying goes, people have three urgencies: "internal urgency", "sexual urgency", and "impatience".
The other two "emergencies" can be slowed down, but this "internal urgency" is urgent, and everyone should have experienced it and know what it tastes like.
However, there is no toilet in the vast Forbidden City, which is a bit abnormal, so how convenient it is for people living in it. Wrong, although there is no special public toilet in the Forbidden City, there are still places for people to be convenient called "official rooms", but they are not as convenient as the current flushing toilets.
In ancient times, there was no advanced sewer drainage system, but in the Forbidden City where so many people lived, it was always impossible to dig a large pit in the ground like the previous dry toilet, and the excrement was discharged into the large pit and transported out when it was full. If such a dry toilet is used in the Forbidden City where many people live, the smell will be very large when it is hot, and it will not be hygienic and unsafe (legend has it that in ancient times, people often fell on the dry side and drowned), which was even more detrimental to the royal majesty.
So what? In the Forbidden City, basically the palace gardens are independent, such as the "Yiluan Hall" where Cixi lived, which is the main room plus the form of the room, and there are many patterns in the Forbidden City. There is a "toilet" in the corner of the courtyard, where there is a toilet, a urine bucket for people to use, and there is a special treatment department, which is cleaned every day (there is a special place to brush the toilet) called "clean room".
People who specialize in cleaning up toilet excrement in addition to cleaning and changing the clean toilet at regular intervals every day, in order to avoid environmental pollution, excrement will be specially pulled out of the palace as fertilizer.
It is said that in the old Shanghai period, some people went to the door to collect other people's excrement. At present, in some areas, there are people who go to the countryside to buy urine for pregnant women.
Especially for people's toilets, in order to avoid a particularly large smell, a lot of wood chips will be placed in them (now some shopping malls still use wood chips to remove water stains on the ground), spices to cover the smell.
The grade materials of the "toilet" vary according to the position, for example, the lavish Andy-sociable Lafayette of Cixi went to the toilet on a private order (it is said that the toilet used by Cixi is now in the collection of the Palace Museum).
Legend has it that Empress Dowager Cixi was very particular about going to the toilet, and whenever Cixi was in a hurry, she said "passing on the official's room", and she could not say that she defecated or said "out of courtesy" as if she were a downward person.
At this time, the palace maids who understood the spirit of the society came in with their heads against the toilet special for Empress Dowager Cixi and put them in Cixi's special "toilet", and the others were now waiting outside, waiting for the palace maids around cixi to clean up after it was convenient
Empress Dowager Cixi's "toilet" was made of the finest sandalwood (which was very fragrant), and the appearance was also carved with a symbol of imperial power and nobility, and even the four legs of the toilet were exquisitely patterned.
Moreover, before Cixi went to the toilet, the slaves also put Cixi's favorite spices in the toilet to avoid excrement smoking Lafayette. It is said that when Empress Dowager Cixi died, she was caused by dysentery (diarrhea and enteritis).
But the place where ordinary slaves go to the toilet is in the place where they live and rest, and there is also a place to put a toilet, otherwise the plants in the wood garden are convenient.