Pig toilet
A pig toilet (sometimes called a "pig sty latrine") is a simple type of dry toilet consisting of an outhouse mounted over a pigsty, with a chute or hole connecting the two. The pigs consume the feces of the users of the toilet, as well as other food.
Pig toilets (Chinese: 猪圈毛坑) were once common in rural China, where a single Chinese ideogram (Chinese: 圂; pinyin: hùn) signifies both "pigsty" and "privy".[1] Funerary models of pig toilets from the Han dynasty (206 BC to AD 220) prove that it was an ancient custom.[2] These arrangements have been strongly discouraged by the Chinese authorities in recent years;[3] although as late as 2005, they could still be found in remote northern provinces.[4]
Chinese influence may have spread the use of pig toilets to Okinawa (Okinawan: ふーる (fūru) / 風呂) before World War II.[5]
Pig toilets were also used in parts of India such as Goa.[6]
On Jejudo, a volcanic island of South Korea that is home to a breed of black pig, the pig toilets were known as dottongsi (Korean: 돗통시).[7] These pigsty toilets were in use in the 1960s.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ Ancestors for the Pigs: Pigs in Prehistory, Sarah M Nelson, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, 1998, ISSN 1048-5325 (p.16)
- ↑ Minneapolis Institute of Art: Han Dynasty Pig Sty-Latrine
- ↑ Sanitation Without Water, Uno Winblad and Wen Kilama, MacMillan 1985 ISBN 0-333-39140-3 (p.13)
- ↑ Appropriate Sanitation Systems in Developing Countries, Thechnical University of Denmark (p.9 of 10)
- ↑ Native Okinawan Village Official Site: Unique Features of an Okinawan Home
- ↑ Harding, Paul (1998), Goa, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, ISBN 1-74059-139-9 (p. 197)
- ↑ Stories about Jeju: Food, Lodging and Clothing
- ↑ "Jeju’s black pig still tasty on the table" @ JoongAng Daily, February 15, 2007.
