Good Memories (3) Toilet

Toilets play an important role in people’s lives, especially those born from the 1950s to the 1970s. Different groups of people can find traces of their familiarity. Outside the toilet window, the changing of seasons is another cycle. Everyone has fresh memories of toilets and toilet culture.

The dormitories of the five major companies of the Anhui Provincial Department of Commerce were renovated from the office buildings of the five companies of the former Provincial Department of Commerce (salt industry, department stores, aquatic products, textiles and monopoly companies) and are located on Wuhu Road, Hefei City.

The building complex consists of a main building (department store) and four two-story auxiliary buildings (the north auxiliary building was demolished due to the construction of Qiyun Villa). The overall building is symmetrical about the central axis, and the plan is an inner corridor layout. , the entrance is a typical "Shikumen" shape. The exterior walls are faced with gray bricks and the roof is in the form of a pitched roof. Inside the building, there are still signs of that era such as slogans and five-pointed stars. The first to second floors are connected by wooden stairs, and the sound of "tacking" footsteps echoes in the corridor when going up and down the stairs; the second floor and the roof are separated by wooden strips to form a heat insulation layer. The entire building faces south and faces north. A large square and a flagpole can be seen from behind the gate of the courtyard. The roads in the courtyard are connected by cement pavements to the entrance of each building and two toilets. There are no running water and toilets in the building. *** There are two large public toilets, located on the southeast and southwest sides of the building complex.

This kind of toilet can handle feces and organic sludge collected from pit latrines and septic tanks. It was considered a relatively good toilet at the time. Cleaners cleaned it and suction trucks came regularly to handle it, so it would not pollute groundwater.

The office area in the building is about 40 square meters. After it was converted into a residence, a wooden partition was added in the middle of the large office. Usually a house is about 40 square meters.

According to historical records, the building complex is a drawing of Big Brother of the Soviet Union and is part of the office building assistance project of the five major companies of the Provincial Department of Commerce, but it was built by the Chinese themselves. It was built in 1958. Perhaps after falling out with the Soviets, the office building was converted into dormitories, hence the name Five Major Company Dormitories.

Since there was no toilet in the living room, at that time, every house had several spittoons or toilets. During the day, most people used the public toilet for convenience, and at night they often used the spittoons or toilets. Go to the toilet at home to empty and scrub. Therefore, the toilet has the most people in the morning, making it a beautiful scenery in the yard.

The toilets in the yard are symmetrical from east to west, and are evenly spaced as squat pits. There are more than 20 squat pits in the men's toilet. Usually, the several squat pits at the door are dirty, and people unconsciously urinate in the squat pits. , it’s a cheap place, but the innermost squats are relatively clean. Usually you need to bring a candle or a flashlight with you in the evening, and most of the time you find the innermost squatting pit.

There is no flushing tank in the toilet, and stool falls directly into the cesspool at the back, which is cleaned regularly by cleaning staff.

The toilet is an indispensable place in people's lives. It is a place specially used for physiological excretion or placement of excrement. The toilet in the compound witnesses the life of residents of our era and allows us to find the place that belongs to us. own shadow.

The toilet is also the "most free place" - children can do anything in the toilet that they are not allowed to do at home. The naughty children in the compound stole adults' cigarettes and smoked them secretly in the toilet. They also used dried melons and vines to light them and put them in their mouths as cigarettes. It was purely naughty and fun.

The most embarrassing thing is that I didn’t finish my homework, so I hurriedly made up for it in the toilet. I was accidentally seen by my classmates, which caused unspeakable embarrassment;

South of the toilet is a piece of suburban rural vegetables. In the vegetable garden of the team, there is a passage that can pass through the door of the women's restroom. Naughty little boys pass by here and often push the short boy into the women's restroom with premeditation;

There are also others The little boy deliberately lit firecrackers and threw them into the women's restroom. The people in the women's restroom shouted and cursed outside the window. The naughty children ran away quickly;

Hidden-and-cat cats also often go into the restroom. Hiding, especially when it’s dark and you can’t see inside, hiding in the toilet. When it’s dark outside, the children don’t dare to go in, so they have to shout a few times outside the toilet and then leave...

The original lamp in the toilet was in disrepair for a long time. Everyone always brought candles with them when going to the toilet, and lit them before entering. After seeing the squatting pit, they placed the lit candles on the ground. Of course, the worse thing is to accidentally step on a landmine...

Sometimes children run into the toilet to change their pants after swimming in the river.

When I was a child, I had the deepest impression of the toilet. When I entered, the smell was so pungent to my nose and eyes that I couldn't even open my eyes, as if I wanted to shed tears.

With the development of social civilization and the improvement of economic level, clean and hygienic household toilets have become very popular. Sitting toilets have replaced squatting pits and gradually become the standard feature of Chinese families. Some families use toilets with toilets. Smart toilet with clean and flush function. Although most of the public toilets on the streets are still squat, they have dedicated management personnel and the sanitary environment has been greatly improved.

The new generation of toilets. With the improvement of technological level, how to make feces management in the health service chain easier and lower cost. Next is a new self-contained toilet - a "new toilet" that kills pathogens and has built-in micro-processing equipment. This toilet uses a variety of innovative technologies to degrade and sterilize feces and produce clean water and solid matter. It is now possible to use these solid materials as fertilizer, or to safely discharge them outdoors without further treatment.

Pay attention to sanitation issues. There are still many impoverished areas in the world. Children play on roads littered with feces, cesspits need to be cleared by hand, public toilets are so smelly that no one wants to use them, and household drinking water is also affected by feces. pollute. If we want to eliminate the stubborn disease of poverty on a global scale, we must use a new way to examine and ultimately solve the global health crisis, so that everyone around the world can use clean toilets and live a healthy and wealthy life.