What was life like in ancient times?

How did the ancients live? In fact, they are not worse than us! Did ancient women shave their bodies? Compared with their high IQ of keeping pace with the times, China women have not evolved much in shaving their body hair. In fact, a long time ago, ancient women advocated shaving off their eyebrows and then painting them with black pigment ... Yes, women in Kurosawa's movie Chaos like to make their eyebrows a little bit, which is the result of learning from China's ancestors ... In addition, ancient women are also popular in "pulling their faces", that is, pulling out the fine hairs on their faces with thread ... It is said that only men love face, but it seems that this is not the case. There were 3000 people in the harem of the ancient emperor. Are there really so many? 3000? This is just a conservative figure. The ancient emperors' pursuit of womanhood can be described as tireless. Yang Di, a famous bad king, once wrote to collect beautiful women from all over the world, and even selected 3,000 virgins to enter the palace for his "recreation". Emperor Yang Di is still a piece of cake, and the ranking champion is Tang Xuanzong. Although the love between him and Yang Guifei is described as earth-shattering in ancient books, the number of his lovers is as high as 40 thousand ... Well, it takes more than 65,438+000 years to use up one every day. The ancients often said that learning to be rich in five cars, how many books can five cars hold? It should be pointed out that this "car" is a carriage and an ox cart, not a big truck. This word describes how diligent and studious Shi Hui was during the Warring States Period. Every time he goes out, he takes five cars of bamboo slips to read on the road. I wonder if he can feel the rough road. Anyway, this style is enough. There are very few books in these five-car bamboo slips, and probably even the hardcover version of "The View of Ancient Chinese Literature" can't fit. According to this algorithm, any one of us is a rich man with dozens or hundreds of cars. How often did the ancients usually take a bath? What do they use to wash their hair? The ancients were much more hygienic than we thought. As early as the pre-Qin period, the ancients "washed their hair for three days and bathed for five days". There was also "taking a rest" in the Han Dynasty, which meant that officials could take a day off to take a bath after working for five days. How can civil servants be treated like this now? Some people even write books because they like to take a bath. This is Xiao Gang, Emperor Jianwen of the Southern Dynasties, and his Bath Sutra. The ancients washed their hair frequently, and often used clean water and natural detergent "Sapindus mukoraiensis" to wash their hair. The ancients didn't have toilet paper, so what should they use to wipe their ass after going to the toilet? The ancients probably practiced ninja magic. Before the invention of paper, the ancients used small pieces of wood and bamboo to "scrape" their buttocks, not afraid of scraping hemorrhoids. Even if paper was invented, the ancients would continue to be "ninjas", because China has a tradition of "respecting and cherishing Chinese characters" and paper is expensive, so wiping one's ass with paper is a luxury that does not respect people. Until the Yuan Dynasty, no matter what paper you cherish, Mongolian people treated their ass "gently" from now on. The ancients didn't have a refrigerator. How could they preserve food? Who said the ancients didn't have a refrigerator? A "bronze ice guide", the earliest refrigerator found in the world, was unearthed from the Chu Tomb in Ceng Houyi, Suixian County, Hubei Province. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, slaves carved ice cubes in winter and stored them for nobles to drink in summer. Simply put, the ancient "refrigerator" is a box, in which ice cubes are placed, and then food is placed in the middle of the ice cubes to achieve the effect of preservation. However, the previous "refrigerator" was simple and had a single function. Unlike now, refrigerators can even become containers for murderers in thrillers. How did the ancients predict the weather? In Shang dynasty, it was a great skill to observe the celestial phenomena by using sensory systems such as eyes and ears, and it was not a problem to mix a higher vocational position in the government. By the Zhou Dynasty, people had learned to predict the weather through the behavior of animals. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancients completed the formulation of the twenty-four solar terms. Later, the advent of the lunar calendar was the crystallization of the wisdom of ancestors. The ancients predicted the weather, although there were no sophisticated instruments, but in many cases it was much more reliable than the so-called "weather forecaster" now. How did ancient women make up? Make-up is a hobby that women have never changed since ancient times. The three magic weapons most commonly used by ancient women are: Dai Fen, makeup powder and rouge. Dai is a black mineral, which can be ground into powder and then mixed with water for thrush. Cosmetic powder is the present powder cake. Rouge is an ancient lipstick. The raw material is a kind of flower called "red and blue", and it can also be used as blush when mixed with makeup powder. Nowadays, a wide variety of cosmetics give women more choices, and the technology of "mask" is better than that of the ancients. The ancients had no condoms and no condoms. How can they use contraception? If the ancient emperor didn't want his concubine to get pregnant, he would order eunuchs to hang women upside down and wash their nakedness with saffron. In the past, prostitutes also took "cold medicine" containing musk to prevent pregnancy. However, the effect is not 100%. Eighty percent of Wei Xiaobao jumped out because his mother didn't do a good job of contraception, and some people even drank poisonous mercury. Of course, most ancient people did not deliberately use contraception. How did they deal with garbage in ancient times? The ancients were much more environmentally friendly than modern people. Such uncivilized things as littering are rare. As early as 8,000 years ago, the ancients concentrated garbage and used natural or excavated pits to pile up garbage. The quickest way to solve the garbage is to burn it directly, and bury what can't be burned. Most of the remains of ancient garbage dumps are broken porcelain and lacquerware. You can't say that you can repair an antique. So those who want to get rich can rummage through the garbage of the ancients. Did the ancients drink water raw or boiled before drinking? Only modern people will be troubled by this problem. In ancient times, there was no environmental pollution. Whether it is river water, spring water, well water, or even rain water, you can drink it directly.