How did you go to the bathroom without toilet paper in ancient times?

Although paper was invented in China a long time ago, there has always been a tradition of honoring the word and cherishing the ink, and no one ever wiped their ass with paper (at least not on record...)

How does the average person wipe their ass? The stuff pictured below

Don't believe it? It's true,

The lowest class of poor people used straw, reeds, leaves, tiles and stones to wipe their asses. Hu Yinglin, a Ming Dynasty man, said in "The Remaining Words of A and B" that "men and women used rubble instead of paper, which was extremely vomit-inducing.

The more sophisticated and higher status people used "toilet chips" to wipe their asses. Toilet chips, also known as toilet Jane, is used to wipe the dirty after the stool of wood or bamboo strips.

Tao Zongyi of the Yuan Dynasty said in "Nanchun Dropout Records", "Nowadays, temples and temples cut wood into chips and put them in the privy beds, which is called 'toilet chips'."

It is said that the toilet chip originated in India, was introduced to China with Buddhism. In modern China and Japan, there are still remote places where toilet chips are used. (Reproduced above)

Royal it, usually silk cloth and the like, ordinary people naturally can not afford to consume, so the existence of tiles naturally the vast majority.

The Yuan Dynasty came, the Mongols do not care what respect for the word ink paper, found that this paper to wipe his ass really cool, and then changed the Chinese custom, but also a type of progress.