What is the history of the world's most underrated cultural property 'Toilet Paper'?



The outbreak of the new coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) has caused purchases of daily necessities, clothing, and food in many countries, and toilet paper has run out in several countries, including Japan. Was. Journalist

Stefan Dege explains the history of toilet paper, which has suddenly attracted attention during emergencies and has been described as 'the world's most undervalued cultural property.'

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Many people would have expected that `` the epidemic of new infectious diseases will cause various problems '', but anticipated that due to the outbreak of new coronavirus infection `` toilet paper will disappear from supermarket shelf '' Not many people did it. However, toilet paper is actually being occupied in many countries, with toilet paper disappearing from supermarket shelves and shoppers loading toilet paper in a cart.

The purchase of toilet paper and disinfectant by the new coronavirus panic also occurs overseas, and the possibility that a black market is formed-GIGAZINE



Britta Krahn , a business psychology researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Bonn Rhein-Sieg in Germany, points out that buying toilet paper is 'a manifestation of the desire to control one's daily life.' Faced with the uncertainty of a new infectious disease epidemic, people may be looking for toilet paper as a symbol of stable everyday life.

Many people think toilet paper is a matter of course, but Dege states that 'for a long time people did not have paper to wipe their hips.' Austrian northern Bronze Age from the ruins of the salt mines, ' butterbur there are still evidence that had been used to wipe the ass leaves'. In the Bavaria region of Germany, butterflies are still called 'Arschwurzen' (plants of the bottom).


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The earliest record of 'butt-wiping paper' dates back to China in the 6th century. Kainoyuki , a scholar of the North and South Dynasties, stated in his `` Kanji Ikki , '' which he wrote to his descendants, `` The unclean purpose, such as blowing the words and interpretations of the five sutras , ass blowing on the paper on which the name of the wise man was written. I don't want to use it at that time. ' This statement suggests that there was a culture in China at that time that used paper to wipe the butt. An Arab who visited China in the 9th century wrote, 'Chinese are not very careful about cleanliness.

In 1393, it was recorded that the court of the Ming Dynasty used about 720,000 sheets of paper measuring 60 cm x 90 cm to wipe the buttocks. Among them, the first emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and his family seemed to be allowed to use 'especially soft and fragrant paper', and it seems that they consumed 15,000 special papers in one year.

While there was an early culture of using paper to wipe the buttocks in China, the longest uses in Europe to wipe the buttocks were old rags and wool balls, plant leaves and hay. Many pieces of cloth used to wipe the butt have been found in medieval toilets found in Tartu , Estonia. The cloth was very ragged, and it was said that some cloths were made of high-quality wool with silk decorations attached.The quality of the cloth indicates the social status of those who wiped their buttocks. thing.


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The practice of using paper to wipe the hips became popular in Europe in the 16th century, and the spread of newspapers and the development of industrial paper production led to the use of paper as a sanitary product. In the late 19th century in the United Kingdom, flush toilets became widespread, so toilet paper was developed as a special paper that does not clog drains.

Ortwin Renn , director of science at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany, says some people believe that the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection is We think that we store supplies. Whether people have a militant temperament to a crisis depends on their genetics, education, and experience. Also, people who heard stories such as 'TV toilets are being bought up' and 'I have already bought up toilet papers' in TV and SNS news and workplace talks, 'I do not buy up myself. It is pointed out that there is a possibility that he has run into the idea of 'ha'.



As the value of toilet paper soars, the following movies posted by comedian Magic Phil are gaining great popularity on Facebook and TikTok.


Phil visited the coffee shop.



The ordered coffee arrives ...



Check the receipt.



What Phil took out of his pants pocket…



It was not a wallet, but toilet paper.



Phil pays for coffee with toilet paper.



Finally, we pushed toilet paper instead of chips into the clerk's breast pocket.



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