How to say "toilet" in my hometown dialect?

Toilets, with different names, have witnessed a period of history.

Coordinates: Hunan

Bajie was a rural man in the 1970s.

When I was a child, I often went to the toilet.

Urinating is called relieving the small hand, and defecating is called relieving the big hand.

Toilet, in the countryside at that time, was not called toilet, but the popular name was Portsmouth.

Go to the bathroom and tell Portsmouth to leave.

In the 6070s, the construction of Portsmouth countryside was very simple.

There is a private plot behind the house, the ground is dug to a depth of 1.5 to 2 meters, surrounded by cement, and there is no sewage outlet.

Septic tank is about1.5m long and1.5m wide.

The ground part is built with adobe bricks.

The specification of adobe is about 60 * 30 * 20, the wall is 2000 * 2000 * 2000, and the entrance is opened with a small door opening about 80 cm wide, which can be blocked by a movable wooden door or a wooden curtain, or even nothing, and it is open.

In order to prevent rainwater from flowing backwards, cement septic tanks are generally tens of centimeters above the ground.

There is also an integral septic tank prefabricated with cement on the ground, and there is a short ladder in front of the toilet.

Several thick wooden boards were laid on the septic tank, leaving a gap of about 30 cm in the middle to facilitate drainage.

On the top of Portsmouth, there are several pieces of wood littered with green tiles or thatch to protect from rain and light.

At that time, the rural conditions were simple, and some directly made square barrels out of wood, painted with tung oil and placed on the ground.

When the septic tank is full, the rural people scoop it out to water the vegetables and fertilize the vegetable garden.

In the 6070s, the population was large, with 5,678 households in general.

A small mouth, regardless of gender.

I just got up in the morning and often joked about competing for Portsmouth. I couldn't help it, so I peed everywhere behind the house.

Of course, there are Plymouth boards that slip and accidentally step on the cesspit.

Paper is also very precious when you go to Portsmouth.

Educated people may tear down the books their children read and wipe their bottoms.

If not, use straw or branches to get something on your ass.

There are also special urinals in the countryside. Our hometown is called small bucket.

It's dark and windy in the month, and it's freezing, so it's inconvenient to go out with small hands. Put a wooden bucket directly in the corner of the bedroom for emergency use at night.

When I was a child, my family played a joke.

In the morning, my mother told everyone to get up, eat and go to school. My brother slept in a daze, half asleep and half awake.

Mother asked him to pour water and wash his face. His eyes are half open and half closed. He picked up a water ladle and scooped it directly into the urinal. He was severely slapped by his mother.

After the 1990s, every family had running water, and their living conditions began to improve.

Old Portsmouth is still here.

When the conditions are good enough to build a new house, the original Portsmouth gradually began to dislike it, and all of them adopted the indoor toilet mode, including squatting pits, toilets, showers, water heaters and yuba.

With the popularization of education, children in rural areas rarely call the toilet Portsmouth, instead, it is the common name of toilet.

As you can imagine, the generations of 607080 are getting old, and the tombs on the roadside and behind the houses in rural areas will gradually disappear.

Young people in the future will no longer have the concept of Portsmouth, nor will they be able to understand the saying of big hands and small hands.

Portsmouth will be history for generations!

Where we are, going to the toilet is called donkey, going to the toilet is called relieving oneself, defecating is called shit, and urinating is called soaking.

Morning is called pro-morning, morning is called noon, afternoon is called hem, and night is called dark sky.

Dad's name is Dada, uncle's name is Uncle, uncle's name is Wisdom Fofo Agbo, aunt's name is Mom, and grandma's name is Lao Niang.

Dinner is soup and steamed bread is paper.

Drinking water is called flying, rice is called hui, pigs are called grandma, birds are called holy spirit, girls are called Ni, and boys are called Xiao.

Sparrows are called bugs, turtledoves are called cuckoos, magpies are called magazi, and dogs chasing rabbits are called Syrian dogs. Snakes are called worms.

The east, west, south and north of the village are called east, front and north, and the center is called middle.

Say hello to everyone. Have you eaten?

Bicycles are called foreign cars, motorcycles are called electric donkeys, and tractors are called jumping cars.

My parents-in-law are called uncles and aunts.

Guess where I come from?

My home is in the city, and I have been called to go to the toilet since I was a child. When I grew up, I went to college far away, only to know that there were so many names of toilets.

▲ Family bathroom ▲

I went to college in the northeast. In my memory, the northeast people call it a "cat house". I still don't understand why the northeast people call the toilet "cat building". Obviously, people have to bring cats to the bathroom. Maybe all cats have to go to the building to solve the problem of excretion, which can make the ostentatious northeast people feel that going to the toilet is more advanced.

▲ "Cat House" in rural areas of Northeast China ▲

After more than ten years, I switched to work in the southwest, and frequently dealt with people in Chengdu, Chongqing, Guizhou and Yunnan, only to know that the names of toilets in the southwest are the most local. Some people in Yunnan call going to the toilet "singing". Is the toilet called "karaoke"?

Chengdu people go to the toilet and call it "relieving oneself" (pronounced gaǐ). Because Chengdu has developed for thousands of years, people are very civilized. They generally call toilets toilets or washrooms. Of course, Chengdu people are at home, also called toilets.

▲ "Maoshikeng" in Chongqing and Guizhou ▲

Both Chongqing people and Guizhou people say that toilets are the most interesting. They call toilets "latrines". Urbanization in Chongqing and Guizhou seems to be progressing slowly. There is no toilet at all in modern times, so we can only dig a pit and enclose it with things to solve the internal emergency.

How to say "toilet" in my hometown dialect? The toilet is actually called a hat in my hometown, which is used to relieve myself.