Who named the toilet? Why is it called a toilet?
Ancient stone toilet
The history of toilets can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. At that time, the toilet was called nothing, which was dedicated to the emperor. Legend has it that it is made of jade. It was held by eunuchs who served the emperor specially for the convenience of the emperor at any time. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, because there was a man named Li Hu in the royal family, he changed his name to Beast or Maiden in order to avoid taboo. Later, in the circulation, it evolved into the name of the toilet.
The invention of the toilet [1] is called a great invention, which solved the problem of people eating and drinking Lazar. Later, it evolved into a toilet using siphon, spiral siphon, and now the latest jet siphon and super spiral siphon. Some people think that the toilet is the root of all evil, because it consumes a lot of domestic water.
3 Brief history of toilets
China wooden toilet.
"Miscellanies of Xijing" said that the court in Han Dynasty used jade as "nothing", which 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. It is said that this kind of "nothing" was also invented by great-grandfather Liu Bang with the crown of Confucian scholars as a drowning device.
There is another saying about the invention of "nothing", which is also 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". The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty changed this disrespectful address to "beast" or "girl" because one of his ancestors was called "Li Hu", which was later commonly known as "toilet" and "urinal".
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.
1596, British aristocrat John? Harrington invented the first practical toilet-a wooden seat with a water tank and a flush valve.
1778, British inventor Joseph? Brame improved the design of the toilet, using three ball valves to control the water flow in the water tank and a U-bend.
French dagobert wooden toilet
/kloc-in the 20th century, the British government issued a law stipulating that every household must be equipped with an appropriate sewage treatment system, and toilets began to be greatly improved.
186 1 year, British plumber Thomas? Kleppa invented an advanced water-saving flushing system, and waste discharge began to enter a modern period.
1885, Thomas? Tuweifu won the first patent of all-ceramic toilet in Britain, and dozens of improvement patents have been awarded every year since then.
19 14, Qixin Ceramics Factory (the predecessor of Tangshan Ceramics Factory) opened by the British made the first ceramic toilet in China.
In Shanghai in the 1930s, at dawn, many people would rub their eyes, carry toilets and walk out of the house in turn. Then, there was a long line in front of the public faucet.
In 1960s, flush toilets became popular in Europe and America, and later spread to Japan, South Korea and other Asian countries.
I only saw it in hotels in Beijing in the early 1980s, and now it is also used in toilets in Beijing. [2]