In the past, girls with rich families would put toilet paper in the middle of the menstrual belt, and those without money generally used firewood ash.
2. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, besides "marking women's faces with Dan" (making red marks on women's faces), women in the palace also wore rings, indicating that abstinence during menstruation was a warning sign.
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Ancient menstruation has been stigmatized and mystified, and Taoism even used menstruation to make Dan medicine "Red Dan". But "red lead" is not the menstruation of ordinary women, but the menarche of virgins.
It is said that in order to obtain the raw materials of red lead, Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty gave young ladies-in-waiting a lot of menstrual drugs, which caused great harm to their body and mind and even led to their death. So on the night of October 20th, Jiajing 2 1 (1542) year/kloc-0, a maid-in-waiting tried to strangle Sejong. As a result, more than 10 maids, including Yang and Xing Cuilian, and Cao Shi, the princess of Duan, were all executed in this year, and they were killed.
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Menstrual belt-Baidu encyclopedia
Monthly Events-Baidu Encyclopedia