Why is going to the toilet called unties , and what year did it originate?

Why is going to the toilet called a release?

The word "untie hands" is said to be related to the immigration activities of Hongdong County, Shanxi, and in ancient times, people also called the toilet "untie the hand".

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to serious natural disasters and frequent wars, many people died in Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other regions. The land was vast and sparsely populated, and the fields were uncultivated, so the imperial court thought of a way to emigrate from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, to fill the local labor force. But what ancient people valued most was that they were born and raised, and that was their roots, so how could they respond to the call of the imperial court and go to a completely unfamiliar place?

The people did not want to go, so the court could only enforce it, because they were afraid that some people would flee along the road, so they tied the hands of all the immigrants with ropes and hurried away. If anyone wants to go to the toilet, tell the official and let him help you go to the toilet, over time, this release has become synonymous with people going to the toilet, and even later, it has spread throughout the country, and since then, "untie" is the meaning of going to the toilet.

However, some people think that "untie your hands" because you have to untie your belt when you go to the toilet. When we go to the toilet, we need to untie the belt of our trousers and take off our pants, and in ancient times, people wanted to tie the belt, also known as "trouser hands", and when we went to the toilet, we needed to untie our trouser hands, which was equivalent to the meaning of untying our hands, so the ancients regarded going to the toilet as a relief according to this step of going to the toilet.

And there are many interesting words handed down in history, some dynasties called going to the toilet to relieve hands, and some called Gong, until now we call it going to the toilet, which shows that the evolution history of Chinese characters is so interesting. Of course, these are only based on the history of the sayings, if you don't agree with it, it doesn't matter, after all, history is in the past tense, but also open-ended, it leaves us with imagination space far beyond reality, and we pursue the authenticity of history, there can never be only one correct answer, you say yes.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were constant wars, and the imperial court required forced emigration, because the people did not want to leave their hometowns, so a large number of people were escorted hand in hand with ropes as prisoners to prevent people from escaping halfway. The road is far away, and it is walking forward, and it is inevitable that someone needs to go to the toilet, and they will shout "help me untie my hands, I want to urinate" more times, and there is a saying of "untie your hands" when you go to the toilet.

This is mainly because at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to natural and man-made disasters, the imperial court wanted to immigrate people from Shanxi to other places, but it was afraid that those people were unwilling to escape halfway, so they tied them up.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in the process of immigration to the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi, the number of people was as high as more than 100,000, and in order to prevent escape, the government tied everyone's hands behind their backs on a long rope, and when they wanted to go to the toilet, they said to the escort officers and soldiers, "I want to urinate, help me untie my hands." Slowly simplified into four words: "I'm going to get rid of it." Not only is the word "untied" used to refer to going to the toilet during the immigration process, but when the immigrants arrived all over the country, the word spread and became synonymous with going to the toilet.