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How do visitors to the Forbidden City go to the toilet?

When visiting the Forbidden City, where should tourists go if they want to go to the toilet? Someone asked, before there was no toilet in the Forbidden City, how could tourists go to the toilet? In fact, there is a tourist-only toilet outside the Forbidden City. Before tourists go in, the tour guide will remind them to go to the toilet first. There are many people in the tourist season in Beijing, and it takes about ten minutes to go to the toilet. The toilets in the Forbidden City are ordinary, few, crowded and inconvenient. When people visit the Forbidden City, they often have such questions: Why can't ancient toilets be found in the Forbidden City? Doesn't the emperor go to the toilet? Of course not. The emperor is a human being, so he naturally has to go to the toilet. So, where is the toilet in the palace? In the Qing dynasty, the imperial palace mainly used toilets, including bedpans and gongs, and there was no special toilet. The place where toilets are stored is called a "clean room". The bedpan filled with charcoal ash is for defecation. Just cover it with charcoal ash after solving it. Don't use charcoal ash when urinating, just pour it into the gong barrel and cover it. The toilets used by emperors and queens are called "official residences" and kept by special eunuchs. Give it to the "official residence" when necessary, and don't put it in the bedroom. Other inferior people's toilets are called bedpans. Now the Forbidden City is not the former imperial palace, but a tourist attraction. It has a special place to provide convenience for tourists. If you can't find it, you can ask the staff inside. The tour guide knows where this place is. You can also ask the tour guide.