In ancient times, people used paper to go to the toilet, and what did they use without paper? Hands?

The ancients used bamboo chips, and there was a special noun called toilet chips.

Toilet chips, also known as toilet sticks and stirring sticks, are simply wooden or bamboo strips used to wipe dirt after defecation. This type of toilet was also used in parts of China and Japan over the last century.

In addition to archaeological evidence, the records of the use of toilet chips in the Tang and Song dynasties are also mostly found in historical books, such as the Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty by Song Ma Ling. The Legend of Futu": "The queen and the queen of the week put on the Sangha hat, wore a robe, recited Buddhist scriptures, knelt down and bowed, and it was a tumor.

Cut the monk's toilet Jane, try it with the cheeks, and if there are few mangs, then add repairs. "Zizhi Tongjian" Tang Ji 47 records that Han Rong served as the envoy of Zhenhai Festival and transported a large number of materials to Guanzhong, including toilet chips: "Then the equipment has been filled in the boat, down to the toilet chips, and all the handwritten columns are well prepared."

The fourteenth toilet law of the "Admonition to Xinxue Bhikshu to Perform the Discipline Guarding Ritual" described by the Tang Dynasty monk Daoxuan records the daily norms of monks, in which the toilet law requires monks to "always have toilet chips, and must not lose their mistakes", and clearly stipulates: "No words and paper shall be used". This record proves that the monks of the Tang Dynasty used toilets to wipe filth, and at the same time, it is very interesting that it is forbidden to use "written paper" to wipe filth, since it is forbidden, then someone must do it in real life, otherwise why is it forbidden?

During the Tang and Song dynasties, paper was not only used for writing, but also for daily use and burning to worship ghosts and gods. The Song people's "Ai Ri Zhai Cong Banknotes" recorded that "the emperor of the Southern Qi Dynasty was a good ghost and god, and he often cut paper for money, and there was paper money on behalf of the silk"; "Book of Tang" Wang Yu biography: "Since the Han Dynasty, the mourners have all had money, and the use of paper money to pray to God has started from Wang Yu"; After the Tang Dynasty, records of burning paper money began to appear frequently in historical materials.

And "Heavenly Creation" recorded: "In the Tang Dynasty, the ghosts and gods were complicated, and paper money was used instead of burning silk, and the north used the name of cutting strips to call board paper. Therefore, the name of the person who made this is called fire paper.

This paper is seventeen for burning, thirteen for daily use, and its thickest and thickest is called wrapping paper, which is also made of bamboo and hemp and Sutian late rice manuscripts." Since there is daily paper, it is logical for people to use it to wipe dirt.

Your problem is very individual, and it is generally solved with bamboo chips, but now some poor and remote mountainous areas are also solved with branches or leaves. -