Why do tour guides everywhere call going to the toilet singing?

In the past, when I finally saw a toilet on the way out, the tour guide would stop the driver, and then wake up the sleeping tourists with a loud voice, telling everyone that the karaoke bar is here and those who want to sing should get off quickly. Many people are very strange about this and ask why, and tour guides often know it but don't know why. People who don't understand it take it for granted that when people go to the toilet, they often hum, hum and pull, which has both rhythm and beat, so they are ridiculed as "singing".

This trip to Kunming has finally solved the mystery that has been pressing on my mind for many years.

"going to the toilet" is called "singing", which is originally due to the living habits of ethnic minorities and has a source.

In ethnic minority residential areas, domestic toilets are covered outside the house. In general, a shack will be built with thatch, and a pit will be dug inside and a few boards will be laid. At the mouth of the shack, there is no decent door to cover it. At most, there is a fence simply left unlocked. The whole family, men, women and children, use this toilet to solve the "export" problem. But despite being a family, men and women will definitely have things to avoid. In order to prevent outsiders from rashly breaking into the toilet that has been guarded, we must find ways to let people who want to enter the toilet know whether there is anyone inside before pushing the door open. This is actually a trivial matter, and there are many ways to solve this problem properly. For example, hang a broom on the door, such as asking directly or coughing twice. However, ethnic minorities are more "alternative", and they have their own personality methods.

all ethnic minorities can sing and dance well. From ninety-nine to just walking, everyone likes to sing a few words and jump twice when there is something to do. This feature and preference, who would have thought it would be used to solve the embarrassment of going to the toilet, is very simple and practical.

In order to "inform" people outside the toilet, it is customary for them to stipulate that anyone who squats in the toilet must do a homework while solving the urgent internal problem, that is, hum a tune while urinating to show that there is someone inside, so don't disturb. Of course, skilled people are also allowed to sing loudly. However, after all, the air in that place is not very good, and singing loudly requires constant breathing, which is really inconvenient and unhealthy. Most people will choose to hum a tune from the nasal cavity, which is neither laborious nor effective. In this way, others will get the message and leave far away after hearing the stirring ditty coming from the toilet.

Over time, people who are used to singing when they go to the toilet commonly call going to the toilet singing, and the toilet as a karaoke bar. It's actually that simple.

Later, in order to express the demands of going to the toilet more accurately and make it easier for outsiders to understand and master its dynamics, people refined "singing" according to the different contents and forms of going to the toilet and evolved into many different types.

Like "shit", although we have to sing, we don't call it "singing" externally, but we call it "dancing", probably because dancing is more active and more laborious than singing. And diarrhea, the kind of diarrhea, is also called "disco dancing", which is estimated to be related to the intense exercise and loud noise. If they are constipated, guess what their names are? Roaming! The meaning of swimming slowly is very vivid.

Knowing this secret, if you want to find a place to solve the internal emergency when you visit ethnic minority areas in the future, you must ask where the karaoke bars are, and never say anything about toilets or toilets, toilets or the like, because people there don't understand.