First of all, don't think that the word "toilet" is imported, but it is actually a native name of China. From the year when mosquitoes were killed, the convenient place for our ancestors was the flat ground, which later turned into a pit and then the toilet appeared. Mosquitoes followed humans that year. When people show their sweet buttocks, mosquitoes begin to eat dinner.
To talk about the history of toilets, we have to start from the Han Dynasty. According to Xijing Miscellanies, the court of the Han Dynasty was made of jade and was held by the emperor's attendants for the convenience of the emperor at any time. This kind of "tiger" is a special appliance called toilet and urinal by later generations, and it is also the predecessor of toilet. According to this, it is said that this kind of "nothingness" was also invented by high-impedance Liu Bang with the crown of Confucian scholars as a drowning device. There is another saying about the invention of "nothing", which is also said to be related to the emperor. According to legend, in the Western Han Dynasty, Li Guang, a flying general, shot and killed a crouching tiger, making people cast a copper drowning device in the shape of a tiger and put it in urine to show their contempt for the tiger. This is the origin of the name "tiger". However, when the emperors of the Tang Dynasty sat in Long Ting, because one of their ancestors was called Li Hu, their disrespectful address was changed to "beast" or "girl", and later they were commonly called "toilet" and "urinal". There is also a joke. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin pacified Sichuan and transported all the objects in Houshu Palace back to Bianjing. He found that there was a basin inlaid with agate and jade, and he was so happy that he could almost hold wine. Later, Mrs. Hua, the favorite princess Chang, was called dedicating herself. Mrs. Hua Rui saw that this thing was presented by the Emperor of Song Dynasty several times, and quickly said that it was my husband's urinal! Surprised, Zhao Kuangyin made a strange call: "How can there be a reason not to die with this urinal?" Smash this baby right now.
The earliest written record of the toilet was the wooden horse in Return to the Field II by Ouyang Xiu in the Northern Song Dynasty, which was interpreted as a wooden toilet in Ci Yuan. The toilet used by the ancient people in China was a round wooden barrel with a lid, which was coated with tung oil or fine waterproof vermicelli.
Who invented the toilet, even many experts can't tell, but what is certain is that it was invented by foreigners. One theory is that in 1596, John Harington, a British aristocrat, invented the first practical toilet-a wooden toilet seat with a water tank and a flush valve. Before that, many people always went to the nearest big building and the river to solve it on the spot. Although Harrington invented the toilet, it was not widely used because of the imperfect sewage system. 186 1 year, Thomas Kleppa, a British plumber, invented an advanced water-saving flushing system, and waste discharge began to enter a modern period.
We don't like talking about toilets, so there are many argots in this field, such as 1, makeup, "London" (wheel squat) and so on. But in fact, we are very concerned, so it is better to say it directly as there is a best-selling book in the United States called "Everyone has to pee". When Cai Xiang, a Shanghai writer, recalled the daily life of Suzhou Creek residents in 1950s, he wrote: "At dawn, dung trucks will ring bells and walk into alleys. Many men and women will rub their eyes and carry toilets, then walk out of their homes in turn and queue up in front of a public faucet." So the Suzhou Creek at that time was always as thick as sticky juice, and feces were always floating on the water.
Everyone has to go to the toilet, but what kind of toilet to use is really different. At the beginning of the 20th century, women workers wrapped in clothes "got up half naked to open the door and grabbed their pants to go to the toilet" within the specified five minutes. In the inner courtyard of Zhumen deep wall, the master goes to the toilet, and the servant waits respectfully with a warm towel. When the master finishes speaking, he will say "very luxurious". Modern people, even gentlemen, can make the toilet automatically complete the functions of flushing, washing and drying without hands. The toilet changes 100 years, that is, tears and laughter 100 years.
Toilets became popular in Europe and America in the 1960s and 1970s, and later spread to Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries. In the early 1980 s, I only saw it in hotels in Beijing. But now it is even used in pay toilets in Beijing. Sitting is better than squatting. This device is called a toilet because it uses siphon, spiral siphon and other principles to draw the drowning person away, instead of washing with water as people think. How to save water and have a large suction? There are many doorways here.
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Although toilets have become more popular, there are still 2.9 billion people in developing countries who do not use toilets.