Why were toilets called thatched houses in ancient times?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Mu Taigong. Of course, no one would have such a high rank in their name. The surname Mu is certain, and "Taigong" is likely to be everyone's honorific title for him. How did this old gentleman surnamed Mu win the respect of the masses?

Mu Taigong is a countryman, and one day when he entered the city, he found that there were "dung pits" on both sides of the roads in the city, and they were charged. After the old gentleman went in and had a good time, he didn't leave, he stood outside this simple toilet for a long time, and found that there were many people who came to relieve him, so he relied on his unique business acumen to establish his job in the second half of his life - "It's better to do a different kind of business!" ”

After returning home, Mr. Mu asked the craftsman to "dig three big pits in front of the three houses, build small walls in each pit, and powder the walls again, and went to the relatives in the city to ask for countless poems and paintings to stick on the wall of this dung house", and asked a scholar to inscribe a special name for the toilet: "Tooth Jue Hall". In order to attract the flow of passengers, Mr. Qiu Jiaoshu wrote 100 "newspapers" and posted them in all directions, which read:

The Mu family sprays incense in the new pit, and the gentlemen from near and far look down, and the house is willing to stick straw paper.

This hand is very attractive, the farmer is accustomed to straw tiles, now there are ready-made straw paper, and the toilet environment is really elegant, "the wall is green, the most annoying, climb a new pit, just like see a scene". attracted women to also come to the manure pit, so Mrs. Mu built a women's toilet.

It is worth mentioning that Mu Taigong's toilet is free. So how can he reflect his economic interests with such a large amount of money? It turned out that as early as when he went to the toilet in the city, he had already realized that in the countryside, the toilet fee would not work.

However, feces can be sold. He collected the manure and sold it to the farming households, or exchanged them for firewood, rice, oil, and salt. Once and for all, over time, a lot of benefits have been obtained.

It's really "like doing something else"! (According to the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty anonymous "digging new pits and saving ghosts to become rich people").

The Mu family sprays incense in the new pit, and the gentlemen from near and far look down, and the house is willing to stick straw paper.

Because the toilet in ancient times was only covered with thatch, it was called "thatched house".

Thatched house, refers to a simple thatched house. In the northern region, thatched huts are also a common name for toilets. Northerners say that going to the toilet is a thatched house, and in the south, it is also called a thatched house. The urinal in the thatched house is called a thatched pit.

For example: Zhang Tianyi's "Children": "They also threw people's ancestral tablets into the thatched house. ”

Ma Feng Xirong The first episode of "The Legend of Luliang Heroes": "I was just squatting in the thatched house, and I suddenly heard a gun outside. ”

Because wood is still much easier to do than brick.

Because it is a simple structure, it is relatively easy to build, and it can be built in a place at will with grass or corn stalks, branches, etc., commonly known as "thatched houses."

Why is it called a thatched house? It's interesting.

The toilets of the ancients were all piled up with grass, and then it was convenient for people to be under the grass. This image gave rise to the word "Mao", and it can already be seen from this pictogram that people are convenient under the grass. Later, the roof of the toilet was built with special grass, which was naturally called "thatch".

Therefore, it is convenient for people to be under the grass first, then there is the word "Mao", then there is "thatched house", and then there is "thatched house".

Why is the thatched house called a toilet?

Because when I arrived at the thatched house, there were walls all around, so the glyph of the word "toilet" could better reflect the "Mao" with a wall, so it was upgraded.

Whether it is a thatched house or a toilet, it can directly reflect the general shape of the house at that time from the glyph, which is the embodiment of the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture.

Mao has been around since the Zhou Dynasty.