Why do people use toilets?

The toilet is now basically available in every household, and its scientific name should be called "toilet". But few people may know that this thing was not called this name in ancient times, but "Huzi".

The description of "Huzi" as a toilet was first seen in the annotation of the famous Confucian Zheng Xuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty "Zhou Li": "Blasphemy, Qing vessel, the genus of Huzi." That is to say, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the common name of the defecation vessel is "Huzi".

At that time, the potty was indeed made in the shape of a tiger with its mouth open.

The reason why it is called "Huzi" is said to be because Li Guang, the general of the Han Dynasty, once shot a tiger with his own hands, and the tiger is a symbol of the Huns, in order to show his contempt for the Huns, General Li made the night pot in the shape of a tiger and shot excrement from its mouth.

From the Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the potty has always been called "Huzi". But after Li Tang established the country, because Li Yuan's grandfather was called Li Hu, in order to avoid secrecy, he could no longer call the toilet pot "Huzi", but could only be called "beast" or "horse". The shape of the potty has also changed from a tiger to a horse.

Later, the commode developed again, becoming a bucket that could both urinate and relieve large hands, and "horse" also became "toilet", a name that has been used to this day. And today's toilets can no longer see the shape of the tiger or horse of the past.

The history of the toilet can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, when the toilet was called Huzi, which was dedicated to the emperor, and legend has it that it was made of jade. It was held by eunuchs who served the emperor at any time. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, because there was a person named Li Hu in the emperor's family, in order to avoid secrecy, he changed the name of Huzi to Beast or Mazi.

After that, in the circulation, it evolved into the name of the toilet.

The current standard - called: toilet, the old people in the past called the toilet, it may be like squatting when going to the toilet, so it is called the toilet!

In ancient times, the ancients called going to the toilet as: changing clothes. Especially in wealthier families or royal nobles, going to the toilet is particular and requires a change of clothes. Ordinary people or poor families do not have the conditions for changing clothes, so they can only solve the problem on flat ground or use simple containers.

According to historical records: in 581 BC, after tasting the new wheat, Jin Jinggong felt bloated, so he went to the toilet, but later accidentally fell into the dung pit and died, he was the first monarch to be martyred in the toilet, which further exposed the rudiness of the palace toilet in ancient times.

Later, with the evolution of the times, a toilet called "Huzi" was produced, which has two theories.

One is that according to legend, in the Western Han Dynasty, there was a Li Guang known as the "flying general" who shot the crouching tiger to death, in order to show off his might, and then ordered people to cast a tiger-shaped copper drowning device, and sprinkled urine in it, so that people despised the tiger from their hearts, which is the origin of the name of "Huzi".

There is also a saying in the Song Dynasty Zhao Yanwei's "Yunlu Man's Banknote, Volume 4": "Ma Zi', the vessel for stooling." His real name was 'Huzi', and the Tang people were 'Hu', and it was changed to 'Ma'.

It is also documented. It means that in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's grandfather was called Li Hu, and Li Hu was the grandfather of Tang Taizong Li Shimin's father. The ancients paid attention to the name, not to mention the emperor's house, so this drowning device called "Huzi" could only be avoided and renamed "Mazi".

Later, ordinary people mostly used ordinary buckets to go to the toilet in their homes, so the folk "horse" was called "toilet", and it was widely used, and the name is still used today.

Why do you say the toilet is called a toilet? Instead of calling it a cow bucket, a cat bucket, or a rabbit bucket?

A lot of it has to do with posture, you see when we go to the toilet, we sit there. It's very similar to the posture of riding a horse. In the early years, most of the toilets were made of wood, so they were called toilets.

The toilet has to start from the Han Dynasty, and it was first called Huzi. There was a general in the Han Dynasty named Li Guang, you know? It's okay if you don't know.

Anyway, he is a very capable person, especially archery. The most powerful time, there was a stone that looked like a tiger, he didn't see it clearly, and with a click of an arrow, it shot into the stone. As soon as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty heard about it, this fierce stone could shoot into it.

The emperor hoped that he could shoot like this, so he made a jade toilet in the shape of a tiger's head, and shot it every day, just to ask for good luck. This thing was later called Huzi. In the Tang Dynasty, no, Li Shimin's great-ancestor was called Li Hu, and in ancient times, he paid attention to this, and he couldn't make a mistake!

He renamed the tiger as Mazi. After the horse was spread to the people, there was not so much jade, and most of it was made of stone. Ordinary people are not so particular and have no money.

Who still makes a tiger? It's the same as the whole bucket, as long as it can be used. Slowly, it became a toilet.

The word "toilet" has gradually precipitated into a familiar word with the change of history. But being familiar does not mean that it comes naturally, history itself is a long-standing ocean, even if it flows eastward to the sea, it has its unique historical origin.

Hello, this has been formed since ancient times, because, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's grandfather is called Li Hu, in order to avoid secrecy, from the Tang Dynasty, the tiger can not be called Huzi, it is called a beast or a horse. Presumably, horseback riding was more common in the Tang Dynasty, so Ma Zi called it away as soon as he said it. In modern times, barrel-shaped toilets have become more common.

The horse was renamed the toilet by the trend.

According to the Xijing Miscellaneous Records, the Han Dynasty court made "tiger seeds" out of jade, which were held by the emperor's attendants in case the emperor was at his convenience. This kind of "tiger" is the special sanitary utensils that later generations called toilets and pots—it can be seen that from then on at the latest, the emperor did not necessarily have to deal with the toilet. "Huzi" later changed its name to "toilet", which is said to be related to the emperor.

Legend has it that in the Western Han Dynasty, the "flying general" Li Guang shot the dead crouching tiger, and let people cast a tiger-shaped copper drowning device, and put the urine in it, expressing his contempt for the tiger, which is the origin of the name of "Huzi". However, when the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sat in the Dragon Court, just because one of the ancestors of their family was called "Li Hu", he changed this disrespectful name to "beast" or "horse", and then commonly known as "toilet" and "urinal".