Don’t be fooled by time-travel dramas. How miserable it would be to travel to ancient times.

As a person with some knowledge of history, I can responsibly say that it is better to avoid traveling to ancient times. Even if you are a prince or princess, you will not be happier than being a commoner today, unless you Losing memory and not remembering what life is like today. No one today can endure the suffering of the ancients. If the ancients could time travel to today, they would feel so happy that they would not want to go back even if they died.

The following talks about the life difficulties that people today will face if they travel to ancient times.

First: No mobile phone, no wifi

Wouldn’t this alone cost lives? How do you guys live with your mobile phones hanging down every day? Wearing beautiful clothes and eating delicious food, but if you don’t post it on WeChat Moments, isn’t it just that you wear it and eat it in vain? If you don’t send the beautiful photos you take to others to see, aren’t they taken in vain? If you don’t forward some chicken soup articles every day, doesn’t life lose its meaning? If you don’t repost it if it’s Chinese, how can people know your patriotism? If you don't download a few movies and TV series, won't you be depressed when you ride a long distance? If you sit on the toilet and don't brush, going to the toilet is really just going to the toilet. Nowadays, people have no mobile phones, no WiFi, no taste for food, and no way to sit still. Some people say that places without Wi-Fi are not suitable for human life. There was no Wi-Fi in ancient times.

Second: No flush toilet, no toilet paper

In the Spring and Autumn Period, a monarch died a ridiculous death, falling into the toilet and drowning. A dignified monarch fell into the toilet and drowned. This shows that the toilet in the monarch's house was just a pit dug, covered with two boards, and people squatted on it to solve the problem. The monarch's family was very wealthy and dug a big hole. He accidentally fell down and died in the toilet. Most of the open-air toilets in ancient times were like this. Later, toilets appeared, but they couldn't pump water and had to carry it by themselves. You may find it unbearable. In fact, ancient China was highly civilized. If you travel to Europe in the Middle Ages, urban residents would throw their feces directly into the streets. There were piles of feces on the streets, which smelled bad. Plagues were often prevalent.

What’s even worse is that there was no toilet paper in ancient times. When the princes went to the toilet, their servants would pass them a toilet chip. What’s the name of a toilet chip with such a fancy name? They are small smooth wood chips and bamboo chips.

Even if the toilet seat is not easy to use, those who can use the toilet seat must have a wealthy family. Today, the family must be able to install a gold-plated toilet. In ordinary people's homes, who will give you money to scrape the toilet? We can only use local materials. What materials are used? Use your own imagination to think!

Third: No running water

In ancient times, there was no running water. The only way to fetch water was this thing - a big wooden bucket

Otherwise, this thing - —Small crock.

How many trips will it take to get enough water for a bathtub? Therefore, it was very difficult for ancient people to take a bath unless there was a river in front of your house. It's not easy to wash clothes unless you take them to the river. It's not easy to wash clothes, it's hard to take a bath, there's dirt and smell on your body, your clothes are full of fleas, and your hair is full of lice. Thinking about being with these little animals every day, you suddenly feel hopeless, right?

This is the scene of Pan Jinlian taking a bath in the TV series "Water Margin". It took Wu Dalang two hours to carry this large basin of water with a wooden bucket, hold firewood, light a fire, heat it, and more than half of it. When I was little, Wuhan University was busy every day with my wife taking a shower, so what time did I have to sell cooking cakes?

Fourth: No air conditioning, no heating

The scorching summer is here, and there are no air conditioners in the dormitories. They say life is difficult because the ancients have never seen air conditioners. We don’t have air conditioning now, so at least we have fans, right? The ancients didn't have any electric fans, only a banana fan, which they didn't use as much as they liked.

In ancient times, there were no air conditioners or fans in summer and no heating in winter. In the winter in the north, even if some people are very particular about hygiene and would rather run back and forth dozens of times a day to carry a bathtub of water to take a bath, they still can't do it without heating. In an era without running water or heating, northerners could only take a bath when the weather got warmer. In other seasons, they could only wash their hands and faces. In the colder Northeast, it was also difficult to wash hands and faces.

Fifth: No glass windows, no mosquito and fly spray

Summer is here, damn flies and mosquitoes are flying everywhere. Today, in addition to spraying mosquito and fly spray, we can only use Glass windows are isolated from screens. In ancient times, only royal families or noble families could afford screen windows. Most families at most had a screen tent, but they couldn't stay in the tent all day, so they could only feed mosquitoes and flies. I have never understood what materials the ancients used for their windows. After the Tang and Song dynasties, paper windows could be pasted, but during the Qin and Han dynasties, there was no paper or glass. How did you make the windows in Qin Shihuang’s palace? Can't it just be a pane? Dear friends, who knows, leave a message and tell me, it will also clear up a big doubt in my mind.

For poor men like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the ancients recorded that they installed a broken urn on the wall as a window. Such a window must be left open during the day, but covered with thatch at night?

Last point: no herbicides, no pesticides

What the ancients ate was very safe, with no pesticide residues and no industrial pollution. However, the earth is not the exclusive home of human beings. The fertile land is suitable for the growth of crops and weeds. People like to eat sweet vegetables, and so do insects. People have to pull weeds and catch insects endlessly every day. Those who are afraid of being tanned by the sun and scream in fear when seeing insects should not go through time again! In ancient times, food production was low, so most people had to be farmers, otherwise everyone would have no food. Unless they became princesses, they would have to deal with insects.

Compared with the above, no car, no TV, no tiles, no cement, no range hood, this is not a problem.

In short, you should be careful when traveling to ancient times. Even if you are asked to be the emperor, you should think twice before doing so!