1. toilet = wife
When he walked to the dung tank, he felt that the edge of the tank was dirty, so he stepped on it and squatted on it. My father is getting old, and the shit is getting old too. It is not easy to get out. At that time, our whole family would hear him screaming at the entrance of the village. My dad has been pooping like this for decades, and when he was in his 60s, he could still squat on a dung tank for half an hour, and his legs were as strong as a bird's claws.
This is China in the 1940s, the toilet was not yet popular, and most of the toilets in rural areas were just a cylinder. In "Alive", Yu Hua portrayed the scene of Fugui's father going to the toilet in a penetrating manner.
In the 21st century, Japan's toilet lids are sold out! Comparing the toilet, which can be washed with warm water, and the tank, I deeply feel the change of civilization.
However, an Indian movie I watched during the Spring Festival brought me back to the real world - "Toilet Hero". It is said that "heroes are born in troubled times", what kind of heroes can a toilet create?
" If you want to have a wife, you have to have a toilet first. "
toilet = wife
Painful realization! However, this is the most intuitive feeling of the film.
2. Left hand = toilet paper
"Toilet Hero" is an Indian feminist-themed film directed by Shri Narayan Sim and starring Akshay Kumar and Bumi Pedekar. The film tells the story of the bride, Jaye, after marrying Keshav, who found that there was no toilet at home and insisted on divorce, which eventually set off a revolution in women's toilets.
At the beginning of the film, around 4:30 in the morning, a group of Indian women walked out into the field with a lantern in one hand and a kettle in the other. In the middle of the night, where are so many women going? India is an area with a high incidence of rape cases. Isn’t it dangerous to go to the wild in the middle of the night? It turned out that they were going to the wild to release the power of the Great Desolation that had been held in their bodies for a whole day. This is even more confusing!
Why don't Indians build toilets at home?
Why do they go to the toilet without paper towels, but with a water bottle?
You may not believe me when I say it: it is because Indians are so clean that they go to the outdoors to relieve their hands and use their left hand instead of toilet paper.
The traditional teachings of Hinduism encourage people to relieve themselves outdoors, and even open defecation is considered holy. Legend has it that nature has the ability to purify, and dirty things should be turned into nature.
In India, many toilets are not stocked with toilet paper, and instead have a small sink or water cup. After taking a scoop, use your left hand to clean the chrysanthemum, the movements and strength are as you imagine, and finally wash your hands. As for whether he will put his hand next to his nose and smell it, it is unknown.
To Indians, toilet paper is dirty and expensive. Indians feel that after wiping with a tissue, there is feces left on their buttocks, how disgusting! Washing with water is cheap and clean, and it can also reduce the friction of paper towels on the anus and reduce the probability of hemorrhoids and other diseases.
However, India has a population of more than 1.3 billion, a land area of only 2.98 million square kilometers, and a population density three times that of China. Such an excretion volume can be imagined. Therefore, India is called "the world's largest open-air toilet".
"Don't try to challenge our culture, kid!"
"When I die, you can just build toilets."
The first person in the film who opposed the construction of toilets was the heroine's father-in-law, a devout Hindu. Hinduism has a very paranoid concept of "cleanliness". For example, you must take off your shoes when entering the temple, because the shoes are full of filth and are unclean. And the toilet is a place for excrement, how can Hindus who pay attention to cleanliness bear it? They even took pity on the city people, who had to endure the filth of the toilet because there was no open field to relieve them.
The heroine of the movie Jaya was born into an enlightened family, well educated and had a toilet since childhood. However, because of her love, she married into a village that did not even have a public toilet, let alone a private toilet at home. Once when she was rubbing the toilet on the train, she was blocked by the goods in the toilet, and the train took her directly. Having endured without a toilet for half a year, she made up her mind:
No toilet, no marriage!
As we all know, India is a country with a low divorce rate. Influenced by family and traditional concepts, divorce has a great impact on both families, especially the woman, who will be cast aside by public opinion. Still, two people who love each other risk a huge divorce just to fight for the right to build a toilet.
Fortunately, they won!
3. India = King Fried
Anyone who pays attention to India will find a strange phenomenon: India has a population of 1.3 billion, with high population density, poor sanitation, and limited medical resources. However, currently only 9,205 people have been diagnosed. What is going on? Is it because of the high temperature in India? Could it be that India is the "Xanadu" of the epidemic?
As the saying goes, when things go wrong, there must be demons. If we think about it with our toes, we can guess: the detection is not in place.
Without testing, there is no data, and without data, there is no infection.
How much is the real infection data, no one knows! In addition to the level of government governance, medical level and other hardware, India has a problem that worries people around the world: dangerous slums.
The Dharavi slum in Mumbai is the second largest slum in the world and the largest in Asia. On an area of 1.75 square kilometers, more than 1 million people gathered. Not to mention the cramped living space, litter and defecation alone are a headache: an average of 1,440 people share a toilet. So many people are enclosed in a jar with high humidity and high temperature, which can easily cause the virus to spread and mutate.
It's scary to think about! If there is an outbreak in the slums of India, it will undoubtedly be a "king bomb"! I hope that all countries can pay more attention to the epidemic in India to avoid a more cruel humanitarian disaster.
4. A stopgap ≠ a radical solution
In the film, the hero is undoubtedly a filial child. He listened to his father's words, so he broke up with his beloved girlfriend and married a buffalo at the age of 36. The father said that only a man with two left thumbs could marry him. The male protagonist thinks of an expedient solution: make a fake thumb.
When his wife Jaya wanted a toilet, the father strongly objected and went on a hunger strike. The male protagonist thought of all kinds of expedient measures, going to the bedridden neighbor's house to rub the toilet, going to the nearby train station to rub the toilet, and then directly stole the mobile toilet of the shooting team, and happily called this method "complete solution". problem". However, a stopgap ≠ a complete solution, Jaya wants a private toilet.
If you don't change anything, nothing will change.
In India, trying to change religions and traditional concepts is like hitting an egg with a stone. The amazing thing is that women, as the biggest beneficiaries of toilets, did not actively fight for the construction of toilets, or even publicly opposed them.
The male protagonist's grandmother rushed to the grandson's daughter-in-law's house and confidently accused her of not being tolerant and compromising. The heroine's mother criticized her daughter's family scandal and divorced her, bringing shame to the whole family. The women of the Women's Federation are even more wonderful. It doesn't matter if they don't have toilets. Are we all divorced like you? There's no toilet in my mother's house? !
Only when personal interests are violated will they defend it. At the end of the film, the women of the Women's Federation woke up and rose up to resist, and even the Hindu guru happily said that "human beings should not face the sun or the moon for convenience" into the scriptures.
Lu Xun once said: The death of the ancient country is because most of the organizations have been hardened by too many old habits and can no longer be transferred to adapt to the new environment. Some molecules have been brought up to be smart by too much experience, so they have changed their minds, knowing that in a hardened society, they might as well act rashly. Those who act rashly alone can be discussed, but those who act rashly on purpose do not need to be reasoned with. The only cure is to prescribe another prescription.
Change, although painful, is moving in a better direction, no matter how painful it is, it is worth it. Perhaps, the toilet revolution in India needs a good medicine of "education", like a heroine, from a change in concept.
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