What was "Dongji" like in the 1940s in Chaoshan?

Dongsi refers to the toilet used by the monks in the eastern order of the Ch'an Lin.

To later generations, it became the common name for the toilet. It is also known as the East Pure, the Back Rack, the Place of Beginning and End, and the Snow Hidden. Toilets and even dirty places, should be kept clean, so it is called clean, restroom (the meaning of clear).

The toilet used by the monks of the eastern order of the cover, known as the East Division, East Pure; in this regard, the monks of the western order of the toilet, known as the West Division, West Pure. The person who is responsible for cleaning the toilet is called the head of the jungle, one of the forty-eight single duties of the jungle.

The East Division in addition, the ancient toilet is also known as the snow hidden, because of the Xuedu Chongxian stop in Lingyin Temple had served as a net head of the job. [Shi's to see the volume of screen toilet article, chanlin elephant instrument paper hall door, position door].

"East Division" (dang si), now Chaozhou, Pingxiang, Zhejiang Jinhua area and other local languages on the toilet's common name. As early as in the Tang Dynasty, there will be the toilet called Dong Si, to the Song Dynasty, the toilet called Dong Si became very popular.