Europeans hate, Indians feel that defiles God, while we Chinese think is a treasure and use it as fertilizer to feed generations of people.
As early as the Xia Shang Zhou period, there were public toilets, but at that time it was called "roadside", generally a large well was dug, and the well was covered with a board, and people could squat on the board and pull down, but they might splash on the buttocks and even fall down and drown. For example, in 581 BC, the Duke of Jin Jing went to the toilet, broke the plate, and died.
In the Han Dynasty, toilets were further upgraded, with dry-fence buildings, skylights, exhaust holes, and everything. Folk toilets are generally combined with pigsties, pulling a pipe in the dung pit to connect pigsties, pigs were called shi in ancient times, because pigs eat, so pigsties are also called shi; Or in the late Han Dynasty, the toilet was built above the pigsty, with above and pigs below, which is also the origin of what we often call "toilet". By the way, the ancient royal palace nobles did not eat pork, they felt that eating pigs (pigs) was equivalent to eating.
It was also during this period that the wise working people of the mainland began to conduct major research on as fertilizer, in the case of the of people who cannot eat pigs, the of pigs, the of cows and sheep ... All are noble fertilizers, valuable property; There are historical records that in the Tang Dynasty, there were special dung pits, containing all kinds of, and the per capita "scientists" in the mainland during this period, what dishes to do, what to pour, and how much to pour are well known.
As long as there are many pulls, the whole family will not go hungry. The ancients' effective treatment of feces eliminated most of the hygiene problems; Even at the same time as the commercial development of the Song Dynasty,, appreciated in value. At that time, farmers felt that people in the city played well, ate well, and must be good, so they all rushed to buy the pulled in the city, (is equal to making money, is equal to throwing money), turning waste into treasure and into money, so some people specially use horse-drawn carriages or cargo ships to to sell in the countryside; Tang Dynasty business magnates; Luo Hui, for generations, has been digging dung as a business, and the family is rich and wealthy.
The operation of time gears, the surge of population, by the Ming Dynasty, pigs finally could not eat, while the supply exceeded demand, the corruption of the Ming Dynasty government, only one of the six Shangshu is still barely running, most of the local governments are stagnant, equivalent to the current network disconnection, civil grievances are not asked, prison prisoners are not tried, let alone the city full of on the streets. During the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the streets of Beijing were full of, and the crisis caused by came.
Every summer, all kinds of diseases caused by feces shrouded in the sky over various cities, people can only wait for the change of weather and the hard resistance of the body, the problems caused by have not improved until the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus do not know how to deal with the fecal problem, the high-ranking officials and aristocrats in the Qing Dynasty palace as long as it is time to, there will be special people to serve, after pulling, they will be poured into the gong barrel by the eunuchs and sent out of the palace; The people outside the palace are very free; Men can defecate on the street or on the wall, women pour pots on the street or in the river after the night pot at home, and the city feces pile up into mountains, and the water in the river is extremely smelly.
is a witness to Chinese history, and now that is pulled like this, how will foreigners feel when they see it? The British envoys had visited the Qing Dynasty, and they were stunned to see what they saw: the houses in the countryside were dilapidated, a small narrow house lived for three generations, and a herd of livestock had to be raised, a dirty scene; Most of them were poor enough to wear a pair of shirts that exposed their dark bodices. Officials in the city took the lead in throwing, the in the streets was so dense that even horse-drawn carriages could not pass through, and people had numbness on their faces and felt that should be treated like this.
In 1840~1842, the outbreak of the Opium War, and later the Anglo-French coalition arms burned the Old Summer Palace, our heavenly kingdom ceased to exist, but at that time the Chinese people still had pride, the "Western Affairs Movement" was held, under the slogan of "mastering and destroying with long skills", decided to learn Western technology, and then sanctioned this group of barbarians after returning home, so they sent international students to study abroad, but when the international students arrived in the local area, they were dumbfounded; Where are the barbarians, we don't even well, we are barbarians.
Among them, Kang Youwei found that European toilets can flush, and even toilets are implemented separately for men and women, it turns out that we have been behind the world for a hundred years, the gears of time turn again, the Xinhai Revolution, the National Revolution, the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, people are at stake in life and death, and they have no intention of asking.
In 1949, the founding of New China, everything was in ruins, the government proposed a new sanitation plan, improved the sanitary environment, the whole country was renewed, had a place to go, people's quality of life gradually improved, but the population grew, plus the country built dry toilets, and no one will deal with them until they are full, such toilets are often smelly; After the reform and opening up, foreigners came to China, saw China's dry toilets after laughing at China's backwardness and dirty, this period of toilets, not only the performance of personal hygiene, but also China's face, we realized that China's toilets must be reformed again.
We are all witnesses of this toilet reform, the toilets in the city are modern toilets, no need for manure diggers to go door-to-door to deal with it, we have automatic sewage pipes and manure trucks, public toilets in high-speed trains and subways not only have flushing systems, automation systems, but also exclusive toilets for their disabled people, more humane; In the countryside, there is the popularity of "harmless toilets", feces not only do not cause odor pollution but also become fertilizer, the advancement of the toilet revolution, the international gradually changed the original impression of the mainland.
Small toilet, big miniature. It reflects the civilization of a country, the prosperity and strength of the country, and the harmony of the nation; A thousand years ago, was the pride of the Chinese nation, but with the growth of the population, wrong governance, we lost control of, and even during the period of national turmoil, we couldn't even pull, but with the continuous development of the country, the fecal problem was finally cured.
Only now we don't know how hard-won it is that we can brush videos and read newspapers when we, which is the efforts of the previous = previous generations, and the prosperity and strength of the country, which is what it is today.