The Forbidden City has tens of thousands of rooms and thousands of people lived in its heyday. Why is there no toilet?

The incisiveness of this problem lies in the difference in life between modern people and ancient people. It may be difficult for us to understand the strange traditions of ancient people, but as long as we understand the historical background at that time and the ideological differences with modern people, we can get a perfect explanation.

Toilet is a necessity for modern people's life, but according to the understanding of the ancients at that time, especially because it is the habitat of the nobles in the palace, the toilet inevitably lost its elegance.

Toilets can be regarded as shelters for the wicked and evil people, but they are particularly important for both ancient people and modern people.

The reason why the palace is noble is that the tall and majestic walls are particularly important, and the location of the palace is also carefully selected by Feng Shui masters. Naturally, its status and symbolic significance in the hearts of the ancients are self-evident. Isn't it a little wasteful to go to the toilet here in such a land of geomantic omen?

But since living here, the basic physiological needs for excretion are inevitable for emperors, concubines, ladies-in-waiting and eunuchs. How to solve this problem?

In fact, the designer of the palace had already considered it at that time, but it was not the same as the toilet we use now. There are both standard rooms used by emperors' concubines and public toilets used by eunuchs' ladies-in-waiting, but they are only hidden and convenient to use, and the final excrement will not be stored here for a long time.

The first is the convenience of the emperor's concubine.

As the ninth five-year plan emperor, he actually faced the dilemma of being suffocated by urine. A large palace is not necessarily convenient everywhere. The natural emperor is convenient, so he must have his own special place.

Emperors and concubines with prominent positions have special toilets, and other emperors and empresses are not considered for the time being. Take Empress Dowager Cixi, whom we are most familiar with. His toilets are all made of rosewood, beautifully carved, and sometimes people even regard them as works of art. ..

The official residence, perhaps its size is similar to the fitting room we are talking about now, or it may be bigger. In short, it is to provide a convenient secret place. After all, it is indecent in public, and secondly, I don't have the courage.