Before the invention of paper, how did the ancients go to the toilet?

Updated on history 2024-02-24
12 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    1. I personally think that in ancient times, human beings were relatively backward. But in the early days, the ancients also needed to go to the toilet, but they basically used bamboo chips, including the emperor. In ancient times, paper was not developed at that time.

    They have only two options, either with melons or with bamboo slices. There are also many ordinary people who use stones, grass, clods of soil, and cork veneer to solve their problems.

    2. According to research, early people used bamboo, and even emperors used it. Before the Tang and Song dynasties, people used a piece of wood or bamboo to make a "toilet map". To be precise, its usage is to scrape rather than rub.

    In Japanese archaeology, many ancient toilets have been found to have "toilet financing". For example, during the excavation of the Fujiwara Kyoto site in Takada Town, Nara Prefecture in 1992, the remains of the "oldest toilet in Japan" were discovered. The remains of the toilet are from the end of the 7th century.

    3. In the 11th and 12th centuries, a large number of toilets were excavated at the site of the Rokueda Imperial Palace in Hirai Sakumi Town, Iwate Prefecture. During the Tang and Song dynasties, China and Japan had close exchanges, and the way of life of the Chinese had a profound impact on Japan. Therefore, these archaeological discoveries in Japan have important reference value for inferring the wiping tools of the Chinese during the Tang and Song dynasties.

    It is said that the toilet ** was introduced to China by Buddhism.

    Fourth, when you go to the toilet, you can pull the grass high and scrape the road clean. If you scratch it, you'll get hurt. Zhu Qiqiu said:

    Why do you suffer from dark spots? That is: "When I go to the toilet, it's not clean."

    Shakyamuni Buddha responded to this situation by saying, "The beginning and the end have been completed, and the net is used to scrape the net. If there is no plan to clean the walls, the beams of the toilet should not be wiped clean, without stones, there is no use.

    Grass, clods, cork, cork and timber shall not be used; Wooden and bamboo rafts are not allowed.

    Bamboo has burrs that can easily scratch the buttocks. Therefore, the "toilet plan" needs to be verified. It has to be crafted.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The safe and simple way is to wash with water, which was called "changing clothes" in the past, which is why there are now toilets and changing rooms.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The ancients used some dried leaves to collect them, and used them as toilet paper when they went to the toilet.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    It is said that at that time, their lives were relatively backward. When you go to the toilet, you use a cotton cloth. Or maybe it's some weeds.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    They seemed to wipe it with a cloth and then wash it, as I remember reading in a children's book before.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    I think some leaves or some old cloth and scrap cloth, they say they can use it to go to the toilet.

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Before there was no paper, I guess that the ancients used cloth to go to the toilet, some used grass, useful earth and stones, and so on.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Rich people use cotton cloth to go to the toilet, and those who don't have money use that kind of leaves or water to rinse.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Toilet paper was popularized very late, and the ancients used toilet chips.

    Toilet chips, also known as toilet chips, toilet ruts, toilet grates, stirring brigade leakage sticks and dry feces town collapses, refer to the wooden or bamboo strips used to wipe dirt after defecation, and this kind of toilet chips are still used in parts of China and Japan in the last century. There are corresponding records in the "Book of the Southern Tang Dynasty", "Zizhi Tongjian" and "Fayuan Zhulin".

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    Wipe filth, there was no paper before the Han Dynasty, and people "swab" with bamboo or wood chips. The history books put this kind of thing""Wipe dirt" tool called"toilet chips".

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    Ordinary peasants would use bamboo strips to go to the toilet at home, and if they were nobles, they would use silk to solve the problem.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Before there was no toilet paper, what kind of "operation" did the ancients have after going to the toilet?

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