Introduction: As the saying goes, "people have three emergencies", imagine if you walk on the street and suddenly have an emergency, look around and there is no toilet, is it like an ant on a hot fire? Although there are public toilets everywhere on the street today, this embarrassing situation is unlikely to happen, but it was commonplace in ancient times, so how did the ancients deal with it?
Simple pit
As early as the Paleolithic period, a hundred times simpler than the toilet "mao pit" appeared, and the Warring States period was full of smoke, the ruler would usually order people to build a "hun ( pronounced as the fourth sound) on the city wall", which was no different from the mao pit inside, but there was an outer wall with a circumference of more than 30 steps and a height of about 1 zhang as a barrier, and each interval did not exceed 50 steps, which not only facilitated the soldiers guarding the city, but also avoided the plague caused by open defecation.
turbid
There is also a kind of "minpu" for the use of the people, the height of the outer wall is two feet higher than in the army, usually connected to the pigsty, collecting the feces of people and poultry, reducing a lot of unnecessary trouble, but the disadvantage is that the pit is too deep, which is also historical. In the "Zuo Chuan Cheng Gong Ten Years" record: The Marquis of Jin will eat, rise, go to the toilet, and fall into the pawn, saying that before the Jin emperor Jin Jinggong was preparing to eat, he suddenly felt that his stomach was very bloated, and as a result, he accidentally fell into it when squatting in the pit and drowned alive.
With the change of times, toilets have become more and more elaborate, and modern archaeology has found different types of ancient toilets. Representative is the tomb of Liu Wu, the King of Liangxiao in Shangqiu, Henan, which has a set of well-preserved stone toilets, which is the earliest flushing toilet found so far, and there are stone handrails on both sides of the toilet directly above the toilet, which is very humanely designed.
It can be seen that the ancients attached great importance to the toilet, but the "toilet civilization" seems to have never had a female toilet position, in fact, this is inseparable from the prevalence of patriarchal thought in the feudal period and the fact that most women were restricted from going out. Even in the ancients' conception, a woman's entry into the toilet was an indecent act. The record of the first women's toilet in history is unknown, but archaeological findings provide us with strong evidence - a tomb from the Western Han Dynasty Wang Mang period has been excavated in the Hanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, and the "green glazed pottery toilet" in the tomb is a toilet separated by two sides to distinguish men and women; the collection of the China Agricultural Museum also has a Han Dynasty pottery toilet design similar to this.
Stills of the maid cleaning the toilet
So before the invention of the women's toilet, how did women solve the internal emergency? In fact, there is a very convenient tool, that is, the toilet. But it is not a "flush toilet", but a kind of round wooden barrel painted with tung oil or waterproof vermilion paint, generally will be placed in the boudoir to use, some weak people are afraid of being smoked by the smell emitted by the toilet, convenient when it is convenient to let the close-fitting beard on the side of a pillar of incense to drive away the smell, after the end of the immediate let the next person take it to deal with it. However, if you have to go out in special circumstances, or how to solve the internal emergency when you go out? Naturally, you can only take the toilet with you.
I have to say that just because of the dominance of feudal concepts, women's normal physiological needs must be bound, which is really regrettable.
Dear officials, have you ever encountered a more unique toilet in your life?