Presumably you know about bamboo Jane, bamboo Jane is actually a kind of ancient writing carrier, now in archaeology, if you can find bamboo Jane in ancient tombs, it is undoubtedly very exciting, because bamboo Jane has a large number of ancient characters, which for our scholars and experts, to some extent, the value is more precious than any cultural relics.
But once in an archaeological work that happened in Japan, the archaeological team cleaned out a batch of bamboo janes, but it was tender that made Japanese experts cry out disgusting, why is this?
It was in 1992 in Takaden-cho, Nara Prefecture, Japan, when the Japanese archaeological team came to the Fujiwara Kyo site here to conduct archaeological excavations, so let's briefly introduce Fujiwara Kyo first!
Fujiwara Kyo (694-710 AD) was the largest capital in Japanese history, located in Kashihara City, 2.1 km from east to west and 3.2 km from north to south, and was home to three emperors for 16 years: Emperor Shōgun, Emperor Bunmu, and Emperor Motomei.
Just when the archaeological team excavated to the middle of the excavation, some archaeologists found the oldest toilet site in Japanese history, which is actually a bit disgusting to say that it is even a toilet more than 1,000 years ago.
The most shocking thing is that the Japanese archaeological team actually cleared out more than 150 bamboo janes in the toilet pit here, and then immediately someone reported it to the archaeologists, and after the experts arrived, they began to immediately conduct a preliminary identification of these bamboo janes, and the experts found that there were many words on it, which obviously had very important historical value.
Subsequently, these bamboo janes were naturally brought back to the local museum in Japan for in-depth research, but I did not expect that the final identification results were indeed speechless and shocking, which was actually not strictly speaking, but toilet chips.
Toilet chips are the toilet paper that we modern people use conveniently to go to the toilet, in ancient times there is a very rough name for toilet chips, that is, the churning stick, specifically its use is the bamboo strips that humans use to wipe after the convenience is finished, and indeed think about it a little hot pain, in case the hand is heavy, it is estimated that the pants can not be lifted!
I believe that although the Japanese experts at that time felt very disgusted by these bamboo janes, they were still very happy to remember that many of the words were recorded in them.
Of course, our country has naturally unearthed toilet chips, after all, toilet chips are actually passed down from China, and it was not until after the Ming Dynasty that they began to be replaced by other items.
But at the same time, I feel that it is a pity, after all, the toilet chips are basically recorded in ancient texts, and many of the contents are very precious, but I did not expect that the ancients used them as churning sticks, which is a violent thing for our modern scholars and experts!