Revealing how the ancients went to the toilet: When was the toilet invented?

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Original title: Where to solve the emergency: the invention of the toilet

I'd rather stay in modern times just for a toilet. An ordinary person's toilet experience will surpass that of any ancient emperor.

I struggled to wake up from a sweet dream and absently pushed open the bathroom door. As a member of the "ant tribe" in this big industrial era, this is only the most ordinary morning in my mediocre life.

I am not Cleopatra VII. On such a morning, she should dress up for the sunrise in front of the Karnak Temple. I am not Empress Dowager Cixi. After the roll call, I was surrounded by a strong team and went to hall of mental cultivation. I can't spend three hours bathing, dyeing my hair and combing my hair like the Tokugawa wife Dojo. The small bathroom is the place I rely on most every morning.

When I walk into a bathroom, it is not difficult to have a toilet that can't smell, can't see filth and is completely harmless in modern times. Perhaps, I never imagined how terrible the smell and danger were when I went to the toilet in ancient times.

Not to mention the first monarch in history who drowned in the cesspit-Jin Jing Gong Ji Ru in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is estimated that the ancient toilets were built with a row of wooden boards on the cesspit. It smelled bad in summer, and the cold wind froze people in winter, so we had to dare not fall. This kind of dry toilet still exists in the Japanese shogunate harem Daao two thousand years later. For the general's wife, this is a "skyscraper toilet". The Japanese magical brain circuit thought that the general's wife's filth was invisible, so they dug a toilet pit more than ten stories deep and put a fence on it to prevent a tragedy like gold.

The risk of going to the toilet is not only falling, but also being attacked by animals, mostly pigs. Jiaji, Emperor of Han Dynasty, was attacked by a wild boar in the toilet while driving to Shanglinyuan. Although wild boar is an example, most toilets in Han Dynasty were connected with pigsty. The green glazed pottery pigsty of the Eastern Han Dynasty collected by Hunan Provincial Museum shows the "environmental protection public toilet" where this toilet is located on the second floor and pigs are raised downstairs. Yes, pigs feed on human excrement, which sounds disgusting, but this kind of "pig toilet" continued to the countryside in the last century and became the childhood shadow of many people.

I walked into this clean, hygienic and safe toilet and didn't realize what a great invention the toilet was.

The traditional "toilet" is no stranger to China people. At present, the earliest drowning device, the tiger, has been unearthed from the mound tomb of Wangjiashan, Jianbi, Zhenjiang City. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the anonymity of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu, the tiger was changed into a horse, and then gradually evolved into a toilet. In Qing Dynasty, the imperial palace used toilets uniformly, and the toilets of emperors and queens were called "official rooms". In Talking with Maids, it is recalled that the official residence of Empress Dowager Cixi is a large gecko inlaid with precious stones, which is filled with fragrant wood powder and will not leave any peculiar smell when used.

The inventor of the first toilet in the world was Sir John Harington of England. He made one for his godmother, Queen Elizabeth I. From the replica, this all-wood toilet is like a grand piano, which is expensive, wastes water and smells bad. However, compared with the medieval times when nobles urinated everywhere and the streets were full of feces, this toilet has obviously knocked on the door of modern bathrooms.

Now I am sitting on the modern toilet in the modern bathroom. If I remember a little history, I should be moved to tears because I have white and soft toilet paper to use.

What I'm holding is not a bamboo stick called toilet paper. In that era when paper was extremely precious, people in China used bamboo sticks or wooden sticks as toilet paper. Even in the Tang Dynasty, toilet paper was still used to wipe dirt. At that time, hemorrhoids patients were really pitiful.

I didn't take the ancient Roman stick. In public toilets in ancient Rome, people wiped them with wooden sticks with sponges tied at the front. The terrible thing is that this wooden stick is still open. After one person uses it, wash it in the pool or wooden bucket and give it to the next person.

I can't afford expensive fabrics, even though16th century French poetry shouted "velvet is the only one". Thankfully, I am so grateful with toilet paper in my hand.

I am a naive person who misses the past. Dreaming of walking in the court of the Tang Dynasty, bejeweled and nepotized. I also fantasized about whale bones with slender waist, wearing flared skirts and holding folding fans, dancing in the magnificent Palace of Versailles; I even yearn for wearing a wig, carefully grooming my eyes, wearing gold and jewels, and being a female Pharaoh ... However, this naive fantasy is often vulnerable to the truth of history.

I'd rather stay in modern times just for a toilet. An ordinary person's toilet experience will surpass that of any ancient emperor.

I sit on the toilet in a clean and safe bathroom. I don't have hairpin jewelry or fresh clothes jewelry, but sitting on this toilet, I feel like a queen at this moment. Roche-Henry Galen Co.