How can you call it a toilet on the side of a person?

Everyone must be familiar with "toilets". Everyone basically visits once to N times a day. But now it's so developed, so there are toilets and flush toilets.

And in the past, when technology was not so advanced, what was their toilet? Someone might say the toilet, right. This was invented later by the ancients.

Nowadays we call going to the toilet "restroom". In the past, it was called the toilet, Mao Si, ash circle, thatched toilet, thatched pit, manure pit, wotou, period), Xijian, Xige (the ancients believed that the toilet should be located in the west or south), Shehou (the folk toilet was mostly located in the back of the house), changing room (existing in the Tang Dynasty), Xueyin (Song), toilet, toilet house, toilet Xuan, etc., the toilet has many names in a dynasty. Some of the names of toilets are a bit difficult to explain now.

But there is one thing that I think you must be wondering, why the toilet in ancient times was called a "changing room"? Some students may have begun to have a far-fetched relationship with the modern "bathroom". I don't think the same word makes sense.

In fact, it is more tactful and subtle to call the toilet "washroom" in modern times. And the former "locker room" lives up to its name. Why is the toilet a changing room?

Because at that time, it was necessary to change clothes after going to the toilet. More than 10 maids outside the toilet are waiting, waiting for the adults inside to come out and put on new clothes for him. But after all, this is the patent of the rich and noble, and the poor cannot do it.

And in the earliest period, when there were no toilets, how did everyone solve it? This brings us to an ancient piece of history. At that time, there were no toilets in Beijing, and there were very few public toilets in the whole city.

And it asks for a fee. So that dynasty, if it weren't for the sake of face or something, it wouldn't have gotten in. And the place they chose is known to everyone.

It's like you can still see some children's droppings on some streets. At that time, the city of Beijing was a huge manure tank.

Origin of the name of the toilet:

Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, is at the top of the "history of Chinese hooligans", and his approach can really be worthy of his identity. He was anxious in front of the ministers, in order to save time for the meeting, and at the same time, in order not to fall into the toilet, he actually asked a civil official to hand him his hat, he turned his back, turned the hat upside down, and in a while, the steaming urine of the half hat was presented in front of everyone.

Liu Che, the descendant of this rogue emperor, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was even more ingenious and actually met with high-ranking officials when he was defecation. This is revealed in "Hanshu Ji Di Biography": "The general (guard) is among the young servants, and he looks at it in the toilet.

The historian did not record Wei Qing's emotions, but it is certain that Wei Qing was a first-class important minister in the eyes of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and perhaps it was for this reason that he was given the opportunity to be received when the emperor was pooping.

Regarding the unusual features of the royal toilets, "The World Speaks New Words" has revealed. Wang Dun, the general of the Western Jin Dynasty, was recruited by Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty as the concubine of Princess Wuyang, and on the eve of the wedding, he used the princess's toilet for the first time. When I first saw it, I thought it was magnificent, much better than the folk houses, but when I went in, I found that it was also smelly, and my heart was a little calmer.

After a while, I saw that there was a lacquer box containing dried dates in the toilet, and I just thought it was "Dengpit food", so I ate it all; After finishing the matter, the maid brought a plate of water, and a glass bowl with "bath beans", Wang Dun poured these "bath beans" into the water and drank them all, causing "the maids to cover their mouths and laugh". It turns out that dried jujube is used to stuff the nose to prevent odor when climbing the pit, and "bath beans" are equivalent to soap in modern times.

Perhaps inspired by Han Gaozu's peeing in a minister's hat, later emperors mostly used potty pots to solve problems, rather than going to the toilet themselves. 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".