Before the invention of paper, what did humans do after going to the toilet?

According to historical records, in the period when Cai Lun had not yet invented paper, people at that time used stones and tiles, and the higher-level aristocracy used bamboo to wipe their buttocks. Think about it a little mysterious, as fast as a blade of bamboo, if you are not careful, I am afraid that there will be danger.

Or a safer and simpler way is to wash with water, which was called "changing clothes" in the past, hence the current toilets and changing rooms. Even now there is this phenomenon in some parts of India, washing the buttocks with the left hand and eating with the right hand.

The earliest "-stirring stick" - toilet chips, appeared in ancient times, when people had no production capacity, and had to use local materials in the face of "people have three urgency". The toilet chip here refers to a long strip-shaped object made of wood, bamboo, reeds and other materials, about 10 23cm long, about one to two fingers wide, washed after use, reusable, and introduced to China along with Buddhism in the Han Dynasty. Although papermaking has long been invented, the ancients were not as extravagant as we imagined, from the Three Kingdoms period to the Tang Dynasty, from the dignitaries to the common people, all used toilet chips.

When there was no paper, the ancients used bamboo to make small pieces of bamboo and scrape them. . . It's still reused, and one shares QAQ

with leaves, stones, etc. Like some rich people, such as the emperor, they use cloth.