In fact, until the 60s of the 19th century, during the Second Opium War, when the British and French allied forces beat the puppet Qing Dynasty all the way, burned the Old Summer Palace outside Beijing, forcibly occupied Kowloon, Hong Kong, and sold opium to China "freely", the city of London was still full of stinking.

Because of cholera alone, London killed more than 14,000 people in 1849, more than 10,000 in 1854, and more than 5,000 in 1866. The city's drainage system is filled with the carcasses of cats, dogs, rats, and the entrails and feces of all kinds of animals.

The well-mannered Western gentlemen and ladies that Chinese see in movies are actually flesh full of dirt and lice in their hair, all with perfume to solve the problem. If they take off their clothes, Ah Q and Wu Ma will definitely be cleaner than them.

In the summer of 1665, when Charles II and the royal family were on holiday at Oxford, an antique dealer wrote in his diary: "Although they looked well-groomed and happy, they were very rude and rude." As they left, everywhere, in the chimney, in the study, in the bedroom, in the cellar, there was feces everywhere. ”

In fact, they can't be blamed for being rude, because the sanitary conditions and hygienic habits at that time were like that. And China has long popularized toilets and squatting toilets according to local conditions and customs. As for the way of the nobles to go to the toilet, look at "The World Speaks New Language", it is enough to imagine ("The World Says New Language: Mistakes" said that the general Wang Dun went to Princess Wuyang's house as a guest, borrowed the toilet, and found that there was a box in the toilet, which was full of dried dates, so he ate dried dates while going to the toilet, and he was proud when he came out - he didn't pay attention to hygiene, and he had to wash his hands before and after eating, what is he? . But the maid of Princess Wuyang's family told Wang Dun that those dried dates were not for eating, but for stuffing the nose and preventing odors. This is the period of the Two Jin Dynasty).

After living in dung pits for thousands of years, suffering from filth, and dying of more than half of the population, the West realized the importance of public health and began to popularize the modern health system with the help of gold and silver stolen by the industrial revolution and invasion and expansion. China has always been a leader in the world in terms of toilets and bathing. Until the late Qing Dynasty, after Chinese students studying in the United States arrived in the United States, they had to take a bath every day, and Americans were still very strange: "Why do you Chinese have to bathe every day?" ”

At that time, it was also the era when Europe and the United States began to change the traditional concept of hygiene. In 1899, Postel invented the drop-down toilet. The manufacture of a large number of washstands has made the people of Europe and the United States accustomed to washing their faces every day - a change of customs that has been called for for hundreds of years by people of insight, and finally barely reached the target on the eve of the twentieth century.

After 1916, due to the breakthrough of the ceramic industry, modern style bathtubs began to be mass-produced, and Europeans and Americans had spare money, idle effort, and idle desire, and finally felt the joy of bathing, so they came back and became "clean people".

The earliest mention of brushing teeth in England was in 1651, Queen Elizabeth had yellow teeth when she was young and black in her later years, which was much more backward than Lin Daiyu and Jia Mu in "Dream of Red Mansions". It's a fight that Japanese women can have, but Japanese women are blackened with dyes, and Queen Elizabeth, who is all natural on her own, can't compare with her teeth!

The earliest toothpaste in Europe was made with soot charcoal and honey, which had previously been made with tooth powder. However, the habit of not having a public toilet and not liking to bathe for thousands of years could not be changed immediately after the industrial revolution and the robbery of other people's gold and silver treasures. In the 18th century, a French municipality held a large ball at the town hall and rented 51 night pots, which were considered very successful because only two were broken.

Even the town hall does not have a toilet, and elegant gentlemen and ladies have to borrow a night pot for convenience, and other places can be imagined. In the United States, until 1958, 84 percent of households owned a black-and-white television set, but fewer than 1 million people owned a bathtub. Also in 1958, West German investigators visited 200 homes in a small town and saw 125 televisions, but only three bathtubs.

One statistician points to an amazing fact: to this day, one in five people in London barely bathe. As for the rule of washing hands before eating, they followed it relatively well, simply because before the advent of knives and forks, Europeans grabbed their meals directly by hand.

Of course, there was no such price in the Roman Empire, but after the destruction of Rome by the Germanic barbarians, it was ......

It wasn't until later, when a certain king married a princess of the Byzantine Empire, that people saw the princess take out her own spoon to eat, and only then did they know that this was called tableware used when eating. In addition, Byzantium is the Eastern Roman Empire, the Roman Empire was divided into two empires in the late period and implemented a dual system, there were two emperors in the east and west, which governed the western and eastern parts of the empire respectively, and later the Germanic barbarians occupied Rome and destroyed the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire persisted and changed its name to Byzantium).

The way of life of Westerners, especially in the 1,500 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire, was indeed a "barbarian" generation in the eyes of the Easterners, and it was no different from livestock. However, it may also help people to be physically strong and resistant. Eating is not taboo, covered with yellow hair, working after giving birth, floating across the ocean without seasickness, there is a headache and brain fever, take a hot bath and heal immediately.

In China, the dynasty with the worst urban sanitation was the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was no one else who could do it, but even the Manchu Qing were more hygienic than the European barbarians......

Otherwise, in the Huaxia Celestial Empire, no matter the gods, demons, immortals, and saints always like to play games and linger in the world, the demon clan is even more admired for the prosperity of the world, and desperately wants to transform and then mix in the world and be happy......

If you change to Europe or Dongying, I'm afraid that you will have to wash your face with tears all day long, and you will think about how you were in China back then. Of course, Dongying is blessed with bathing, and you can soak in hot springs casually, who said that there are frequent volcanic earthquakes in that place.

So, the sorrow of Kaguya Ji mentioned above is indeed understandable, well, at least Sima Qiudao understands it very well, but, who let Sima Qiudao travel over the time is the nineties of the twentieth century, at this time, hehe, don't you go to see Tokyo Ginza, don't you go to Akihabara, wouldn't it be a trip for nothing?