What did the ancient emperor s toilet look like?

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 a special appliance called a toilet and a potty by later generations, and it is also the predecessor of the toilet. It is said that this "tiger child" was also invented by Gaozu Liu Bang who used the crown of Confucianism as a drowning weapon.

There is another theory about the invention of the "tiger son", which is also 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 copper drowning device in the shape of a tiger, and put the urine in it, expressing his contempt for the tiger, which is the origin of the name of "Huzi". The emperor of the Tang Dynasty changed this disrespectful term to "beast" or "horse" because of the name "Li Hu" among his ancestors, and then commonly known as "toilet" and "urinal".

The first detailed written record of the toilet was the "wooden horse" in Ouyang Xiu's "Guitianlu II" in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is explained as "wooden toilet" in the "Ciyuan". The toilet bowl used by the ancient Chinese folk was a round wooden barrel with a lid, which was coated with tung oil or fine waterproof vermilion lacquer.

Barrel-shaped, with a golden dragon coiled on it, for royal use.

Barrel-shaped, with a golden dragon coiled on it, and a royal cylindrical shape.