Why are rural houses and toilets built in the southwest corner?

Rural houses and toilets are built in the southwest corner for two reasons:

First, the countryside believes in Feng Shui. The toilet is in the camp, the water in the camp is wealth, and the wealth is not pure, which is easy to cause trouble for wealth. So rural toilets are all in the southwest. So there would be no disaster.

Second, the geographical position of rural areas in China. Usually the southeast wind blows in summer and the northwest wind blows in winter. The toilet was built in the southwest corner, so that the smell could not be blown home.

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5,000 years ago, a pit was found in the ruins of banpo village clan in Xi 'an, which is considered to be the origin of toilets in China.

In the Zhou Dynasty, toilets were called "wells". "Dry" originally refers to pigsty, which had double meanings of pigsty and toilet in Qin and Han Dynasties.

The attention paid to toilets in ancient times began in Qin and Han Dynasties and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties.

In Qin and Han Dynasties, toilets were divided into squatting type and sitting type, which distinguished men and women and had partitions. In the Han Dynasty, privacy and convenience of use were particularly emphasized, and ventilation design was also added. An official in charge of toilets in the Tang Dynasty. By the Song Dynasty, public toilets in the capital and other big cities had been specialized and managed by special personnel. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, paid public toilets appeared.

In the early days of the founding of New China, toilets were built all over the country to control feces and eliminate four pests.

From 65438 to 0949, in the early days of the founding of New China, rural toilets were crude, fecal water was exposed, mosquitoes and flies were breeding, and intestinal infectious diseases such as cholera and dysentery and parasitic diseases such as schistosomiasis were high, which brought great disasters to people's health.

In 1960s, the government of China launched a patriotic health campaign.

In the 1970s, Ivy Society of China organized the "two management and five reforms" campaign to clean up and rectify the environment, build toilets, control feces, eliminate four pests and highlight the management of human and animal feces.

Before 1980s, going to the toilet was a challenge for both China people and foreigners. At that time, the toilet conditions were simple, and it was basically a collective toilet mode without obstacles. There are several walls and a row of squat pits, which stink. It is common for people in hutongs to use a toilet. Urine freezes in winter and smells in summer. Nearby residents jokingly call this road leading to the toilet "pee road".

At that time, the experience of foreigners coming to China to go to the toilet was four words-crying, laughing, screaming and jumping. Cry, the stench makes you cry; Laugh, everyone squatted down together and looked at each other; Whew, in summer, the maggots in the toilet pit keep crawling, which makes people exclaim; Jump, dirty water, small foothold, jump into the toilet. Even so, it is lucky to catch up with the empty seats in time. There are long queues outside many public toilets in the morning and evening rush hours.

In 1980s, we carried out the patriotic health campaign of "Trinity" of improving water, toilets and health education. Taking the opportunity of preparing for the Asian Games, China started the "toilet revolution". Mainly from the perspective of health and disease prevention, in order to change the status quo of "few toilets and poor environment".

In 1990s, rural toilet improvement was included in the Outline of China Children's Development Plan and the Central Government's Decision on Health Reform and Development, which set off a vigorous "toilet revolution" in rural China. The requirements for the quality of toilets are constantly improving, and the supporting facilities of public toilets are also constantly improving.

20 18 February 23rd, 20 18 National Toilet Revolution Work Site Meeting and Toilet Revolution Training Course was held in Zhengding, Hebei. This is the fourth consecutive year since 20 15 that the National Tourism Administration held a national toilet revolution work site meeting on the first working day after the Spring Festival.

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Development of rural toilets in China