Why Do Chinese People Love To Squat in The Toilet? Because Of The Long-standing Habits And Customs And The Hygiene Problems Of Public Toilets

Squatting to go to the toilet, or sitting to go to the toilet? The ancestors were accustomed to squatting toilets at the beginning because of the construction cost but never thought that squatting was the highest-order form of biological chain evolution.

In the modern age where squatting and sitting are sides by side, no matter if they are from the East or the West, the options for people to go to the toilet overlap. If public toilets can solve people's psychological hygiene problems, many people are still willing to sit down. The same foreigners are also trying to squat in the toilet, in order to have a more enjoyable shit.

There is a paragraph asking: What is the difference between urban people and rural people? Answer: People in the city sit and shit, and people in the countryside squat to eat. The answer is straightforward but pertinent. Almost all rural people squat when going to the toilet.

Calculated in this way, at least half of the Chinese people have the impression of a toilet. If you add public toilets all over the city, squatting toilets are almost all over China's urban and rural areas. Although more and more hotels and hotels are using toilets, in the online discussion about the use of squatting toilets and toilets, the proportion of groups in favor of squatting pits is still very large, regardless of urban and rural areas.

Why do the Chinese have a soft spot for squatting?

Master sits, peasants squat

From ancient times to the present, Chinese people have used the toilet to sit or squat. Although the flush toilet is an imported product, it is not that the Chinese have never used the toilet before sitting down.

In ancient palaces and official houses, all sitting toilets were used. A chair-style toilet with the toilet below, and then dump the feces. A banquet was held at the Ming Dynasty palace festival, and some officials and family members could also participate. In order to facilitate these ladies and wives to go to the toilet, some temporary toilets are specially set up in the palace for them to use. The people above the temple are also very comfortable sitting in the toilet.

But the vast majority of the population in ancient China was distributed in rural areas. If you use the toilet like the dignitaries, you need to deal with excrement and urine all the time, which is very inconvenient. If you dig a pit in a fixed place, you don't have to deal with manure every time, and the accumulated manure can be used as fertilizer.

As for why not to build a toilet in the pit, apart from having never seen it before, the cost of building a sitting toilet is much higher than that of a squat toilet. Especially in ancient rural areas, cement was not invented at that time, and the pedals for pit toilets were either wooden or slate. All construction materials can be taken locally, so people have no reason to build a toilet in the pit.

Even in modern society, toilets on certain construction sites are huge pits. A large pot with a depth of more than ten meters, with a long tread made of cement placed on the pit, can meet the squatting pit of a dozen people in line at the same time. If you are timid, you are afraid to go to such a toilet.

Furthermore, squatting toilets in rural areas are open-air, and many toilets have simple walls and no ceilings. If you buy a commode, it will quickly be damaged by the sun and rain, and you will have to maintain and replace it continuously. Compared to squatting, this is very troublesome.

Toilets are expensive to build, and the collection and use of feces are also necessary. These two key factors make people living in the countryside prefer squatting toilets. As the years passed, squatting to go to the toilet became a conscious and unconscious habit.

After the Republic of China, there were residential buildings in the city, and correspondingly, water pipes appeared. However, the toilets of many families are still dominated by squatting toilets.

The reason is the same as in the past, because the cost of flush toilets is relatively high, and squatting toilets are cheaper and more convenient to build. At that time, flush toilets were only available in better hotels and wealthy homes. At that time, whether you were squatting or sitting, you can definitely reflect the sense of class superiority. The flush toilet has also been labeled as "premium", "civilized" and "hygiene". And the vast rural areas still continue the old habit of squatting in the past.

Squatting or sitting, just a habit

This pit came to the present as soon as he squatted. Nowadays, there are more and more toilets in urban families, and many families in rural areas who have renovated new houses have also installed flush toilets in their dry toilets. The "National Tourism Toilet Construction and Management New Three-year Action Plan (2018-2020)" issued by the National Tourism Administration also clearly stated that 64,000 more tourist toilets will be built from 2018 to 2020. Now this goal has long been over fulfilled. But on the issue of squatting and sitting, people are divided.

Although the flush toilet is convenient to use, like many other items with the word "foreign", it was introduced to China amidst the sound of gunfire from the great powers. Because of their own backwardness and weakness in those days, and the indoctrination of powerful foreign civilizations, some people have formed the habit of looking up at other civilizations.

It is true that squatting dry toilets in rural areas are definitely not clean and sanitary, but squatting toilets that have been transformed with flushing capacity in cities can also meet people's needs for cleanliness. Squatting or sitting is not about who is more civilized than others, it is just a living habit formed through the baptism of years.

What's more, some foreigners also want to squat and pull, they don't have that ability yet.

Someone once conducted a survey and said that 100% of Asians can squat down, while in the United States only 13.5% of people have the ability to squat.

It is precise because of this ability that the ancestors did not feel uncomfortable when they chose to squat and shit. Western society is just the opposite of ours. Many public toilets in ancient Rome were sitting-style, and everyone was sitting and shit while talking about life. Different choices have formed the completely different toilet habits of the East and the West today.

Butt kiss

Nowadays, even some people living in the city still like to squat on, the reason is that people do not want to be in public toilets and other people's buttocks on the toilet. Even with the use of toilet paper to wipe and pad, even with the alcohol disinfection function, some of the public's psychology is still difficult to adapt. Some netizens even left messages to the Premier on the website of the State Council, hoping to increase the number of squatting toilets in public places.

After all, we did not have the habit of using a sitting toilet at the beginning, and going to the toilet is an unsanitary privacy behavior. When do you imagine that the previous person has done it on this toilet, how many people can put down their buttocks without responding? There is already the ability to squat, and the habit of squatting in the toilet has a long history, so in public toilets, people's preference is definitely to squat.

Hard to pull

Some people don't like toilets at all. They say they can't pull them out when they sit.

On this point, scientists have also done the research. Data shows that squatting takes a third less time to defecate than sitting. The rectum and anus of human beings are bent at 90 degrees in order to hold the shit. When sitting in the toilet, there is still some curvature between the rectum and anus. Only when squatting, this angle can be extended to about 100 to 126 degrees. The greater the angle, the smoother the bowel movement.

It seems that the ancestors were accustomed to squatting toilets at the beginning because of the construction cost, but never thought that squatting was the highest form of biological chain evolution.

As a result, some savvy Western businesses invented the squatting chair. Let those who are sitting in the toilet step on with their feet and raise their legs as high as possible. This not only solves the embarrassment that Westerners will not squat down but also allows people to enjoy the pleasure of squatting in the toilet. Compared to the fact that we can just squat down, their foreigners really take off their pants and fart.

In the modern age where squatting and sitting are sides by side, no matter if they are from the East or the West, the options for people to go to the toilet overlap. If public toilets can solve people's psychological hygiene problems, many people are still willing to sit down. The same foreigners are also trying to squat in the toilet, in order to have a more enjoyable shit.

Generally speaking, Chinese people like to squat because of long-standing customs and hygiene problems in public toilets. If the dry toilets in rural areas used to be a matter of cost and concept, nowadays, when squatting toilets are becoming more and more luxurious, squatting and sitting in the toilet are just pure personal habits.

Unless you are constipated.