Why is the ancient toilet convenient?

Gong "pictophonetic characters. From the heart, * * * sound. Original intention: respect, humility and courtesy. Going to the toilet is called convenience, which began when the imperial examination system was rebuilt in the Yuan Dynasty, such as stipulating the level of invigilators and allowing candidates to go to the toilet. At that time, Hanlin believed that the imperial examination room was a sacred place and must be commemorated. As a result, the specialized agencies stopped the "convenience" and "worship" cards and issued them to candidates. Candidates must hand in a "toilet" card when they leave the examination room and a "worship" card when they return.

"Convenience" and "Jinjing" cards

After all, China is an ancient civilization. Although the status of the toilet is very low, there are many sayings about going to the toilet. Going to the toilet, cleaning, changing clothes and going to the toilet are full of rich cultural connotations. During the Revolution of 1911, there was such a story. Yu Youren, a veteran of the Revolution of 1911 and a great calligrapher, was very angry when he saw someone urinating in the corner of his yard. So he wrote down a few big characters: "Don't urinate anywhere" and put his entourage on the wall to play a deterrent role. The attendants saw that the old man's Mo Bao was hard to give up, so they asked someone to write a picture and post it. They carefully framed the notice and hung it in their own hall. Everyone praised it, because "don't pee anywhere" was reordered and became a motto: "Don't be careless in small places". The answer lies in why some people nowadays are so obsessed with ranking. Like many celebrity anecdotes, it is difficult to tell whether it is true or false to urinate anywhere. But one thing is certain, convenience everywhere is really annoying, especially when your door becomes a drowning place that some people enjoy.

Mr Yu Youren.

China, as a vast ancient country, has attached great importance to this "convenience" since thousands of years ago. "Zhou Li Tianguan" records that "officials in the imperial court are responsible for the cultivation of the six rooms of the king, so that they are in good order, except for their defects and odors". The "well" here is not well water, but a "leaking well", which is equivalent to the current urinal. The "well" refers to the current pit.

Ancient toilets

There is a joke about "going to the toilet" in Master Ling Xiao's Essays. It is said that three princes wrote poems on the topic of "going to the toilet", one wrote "urgent urination by the board, feces falling into the pit late", another wrote "wind blowing the ass, cold air entering the bladder", and another wrote "seven precepts for women, four seals for husbands". Although the middle one was cut, its physical strength was not as good as that of the Song school. The latter is devoted to the topic and abandons the theme, which is a way to try to paste poems. Although the last person's poem has nothing to do with the toilet, it does closely follow the theme of "palace" In the Qing dynasty, the wives of four officials could all be called "Gong", but this "Gong" is not another "Gong"!

The prose of a master Ling Xiao

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