Why did the ancient toilet always put a wooden stick and a plate of red dates?

The wooden stick put in the toilet is used to clean the toilet. In ancient times, paper was so precious that it could not be used casually to solve the problem of going to the toilet. So the ancients used sticks to solve the problem of going to the toilet. Usually they put a stick in the toilet. One side of the stick is wrapped with cloth and the other side is used to solve the problem of going to the toilet. People who go to the toilet rinse with water after use. This is not very hygienic for modern people, but ancient people were not so particular about it. Everyone goes to the toilet like this, so they are used to it.

Put a plate of red dates because red dates can also remove the odor of toilets. This red date is not for eating, it is specially made by rich people. Because rich people pay attention to it, they use red dates to flavor it. Poor people don't have these exquisite things. So when you see a plate of red dates in the toilet, it means that this family is rich.

Because the ancient toilets didn't flush automatically like the current toilets, and the toilets at that time used buckets. Think about it. No one can use the toilet, and no one will clean it in time. How delicious it is.

In fact, the gap between the rich and the poor in ancient times was very large, and the rich and the poor were unequal. Many poor people never know that rich people still put red dates in the toilet. There is a joke about a poor man in the Western Han Dynasty who rose to heaven step by step because of his fame. So when he first arrived in the city, he ate red dates because he had never seen a rich man's toilet. He thought to himself that the rich man put the red dates in a good toilet and ate them all at once.

Later, when it got out, there was no one who didn't laugh. In fact, those red dates are usually used by them to block their noses, not for free. I didn't expect them to be eaten by hillbillies at once. But the jujube eater is still beautiful in his heart.

Later, probably in the Ming Dynasty, people went to the toilet and began to use toilet paper. Because paper was already very cheap at that time, the cost was very low, and ordinary people could afford it. But before the Ming Dynasty, people used sticks to go to the toilet.