Was there a public toilet in ancient times, and how to wipe your butt after going to the toilet?

In ancient times, there must have been public toilets, after all, you can't always defecate in the street in broad daylight when there are three emergencies outside, which is definitely not good. I think the ancient public toilet is a bit like the public toilet in the countryside now, I have been to the countryside once, and I have also seen that kind of public toilet, which is particularly dirty and messy, it is an independent small house, there are several squatting positions in it, maybe there was no such tile in ancient times, but it was made of earth.

When the ancients finished going to the toilet, they definitely didn't use toilet paper, they usually used that kind of bamboo. I've seen photos of bamboo chips, which are kind of like the bookmarks we use now, but the material is made of bamboo pieces. It is usually rectangular, and when the ancients finished going to the toilet, they would use that to scrape off their dirt.

In addition to bamboo chips, they can also use leaves, in fact, as far as we modern people are concerned, sometimes you have to have three emergencies outside, you may just run to a small forest to urinate, or you may tear off a leaf to wipe your buttocks. For them, the ancients said that leaves were commonplace, not all people could afford to use bamboo chips, but everyone could afford to use leaves, just go to the tree and pick a handful is enough.

Now that I think about it, it was not easy to make paper in ancient times, and I definitely wouldn't use paper like now, maybe it was just made from local materials.

I still remember when I was watching a costume TV series, there was a scene in which people used tiles to wipe their butts after going to the toilet, and I felt so pitiful at that time.

However, the ancient nobles should have enjoyed it more well, and they might have used silk or cloth.

I still remember when I was a child, every time I couldn't help but have diarrhea in the field, my mother would always pick some vegetable leaves or grass leaves for me to use, and I was depressed to death. My mother actually said that she likes to use it or not, and people in ancient times used to wipe it with leaves.

But now that I think about it, the leaves my mother found for me at that time were still relatively soft, but fortunately I didn't find those leaves that were prickly to the touch, what a painful memory.

I guess it's not unreasonable for people in ancient times to really rub it with leaves, at least it's a very feasible way.