There are many common sayings in life, why do you say go to the toilet, go to the kitchen.

I have read some books such as "Zhou Yi" or "Qing Bao Jing" before, ancient people believed in yin and yang feng shui, and the positioning and architectural pattern of traditional Chinese courtyard houses followed the astronomical geography in "Zhou Yi", and Kanyu was a special knowledge to build houses.

The traditional feng shui courtyard house is common in China, and the orientation is to sit north and face south. The toilet is the source of natural fertilizer, it is in response to the phrase that fertilizer water does not flow into the field of outsiders, we use feng shui to describe, the north is the water level, the east is the wood level, the five elements are born together, the water is the foundation of all things, and the wood is the source of all things. Therefore, the toilet was built in the north and east, which is in accordance with the feng shui left by the ancient ancestors, and at the same time follows the common sense of the climate and environment of the northern hemisphere.

Courtyard kitchen.

The east is wood, the south is fire, the five elements are born together, and wood makes fire. "Spring and Autumn Dew" contains: the five elements follow, each according to its order, the officials of the five elements, each to its own ability.

It is the old wood that lives in the east and dominates spring, fire lives in the south and dominates summer, gold lives in the west and dominates autumn, and water lives in the north and dominates winter. It is the master of the wood who is born and the master of gold who kills, the master of fire who is hot and the master of water who is cold, so that people will be in their order, and officials will be able to use their abilities, and the number of days will also be. Therefore, the main fire in the kitchen is built a little east of the south, which is more in line with the feng shui theory of the ancestors.

According to the orientation of the courtyard, from the courtyard to the outside of the courtyard, the gate of the courtyard is due south, and the direction from south to north is called "entering"; The direction from inside the hospital to outside the hospital and from north to south is called "exit". Going to the north is called "up", and going to the south is called "down". The toilet is east in the north, and the kitchen is east in the south, so we call it the upper toilet and the lower kitchen.

At the same time, because China has been a large agricultural country since ancient times, it values toilets related to agricultural production, so the toilet is located upwind and watery. The kitchen is generally a place where servants and other servants often go, and its status will be low, so it is called the lower kitchen.

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In ancient times, toilets were generally built in the north, and kitchens were generally built in the south.

Humans originally lived in caves, and the toilets smelled bad, so they were built on them.

The kitchen cooks and burns the fire, which can not only eat, but also solve the problem of heating, so it is built in the cave, so it is called the kitchen under the toilet.

Ancient toilets were built on the north-east side and kitchens on the south-east side.

This is the ancient theory of feng shui, the toilet is in the north, and the kitchen is in the south, so it is called the upper toilet and the lower kitchen.

It is mainly related to the orientation of the house building, the ancients liked to build the toilet in the north-east position, and there is a saying that the north and the south are up, so it is called "the toilet", and the kitchen is generally built in the south-east position, so it is called the "lower kitchen".

In the earliest days, the toilet was outside, and I was not at home, so I had to go out every time. The kitchen is definitely at home, hence the saying.

This mainly comes from the original cave life, generally the toilet is on the top of the cave, and the kitchen is below, so it is to go to the toilet and go down to the kitchen.

You must know that we in China have had the saying of the five elements since ancient times, and they are mutually reinforcing. This is where the phrase "go to the toilet and go to the kitchen" comes from.

I think it's mainly because ancient times believed in feng shui, so the location of the toilet represents their top and bottom.

This is related to the superstition of the ancients, in ancient times people believed in Feng Shui very much, so the reason why it is called so must also have Feng Shui in it.