How did the ancient beauties do when the light was red, when they wanted to avoid pregnancy or increase their bust size?

1. Ancient women didn’t wear panties

For the ancient Chinese, how women wear underwear was very important, even compared with the prosperous existence of the nation. They believe that, if women wear underwear, but their legs are separated (like today’s women wear underwear) like the country is divided, it is a bad omen. Therefore, the fact that Chinese women do not wear underwear has lasted for thousands of years.

But of course, women in the past could not… wear nothing inside. Their underwear that day was camisole and “dress”. The “clothing” is just like a short piece of cloth wrapped around the waist to cover the lower part of a woman’s body.

2. Ancient women bathed 5 times a day

This is perhaps an unexpected fact, ancient Chinese women “rugged” with extra clothes very often bathed. In the early Qin Dynasty, Chinese women performed “one wash every three days, every five days a bath”, until the Han Dynasty they even had a separate day to bathe, called “Xumu” , every 5 days, on this day, just like a day off in the week, they will put aside all their work and spend most of their time bathing.

3. Ancient women removed their hair with flint

On the body of women in ancient times also appeared hair like women today, at that time they chose to remove hair with flint. For this method, women will heat flint stones until they heat up to 80-90 degrees, then take a piece of cloth and apply it directly to the hair on the arm or leg to be removed. When the flint cooled, they continued to heat and repeat over and over until the hair fell off.

Flint-fired hair removal caused redness and even skin burns, but was still used by many women as it was the only possible way to get rid of hair quickly at that time. Despite the pain and high rate of burning, medieval women still defied and chose flint hair removal for a chance to get glory.

4. Ancient women ate papaya after each period period for breast augmentation

According to historical records, after each menstrual period, Chinese women will eat papaya and cassava. Those are two pure natural foods, containing a lot of protein and lecithin, which not only provide nutrients for the body but also help stimulate the secretion of oestrogen, making the breasts more plump and full. At the same time, also massage acupressure points in the chest area to help the breasts expand.

5. Ancient women used small pieces of wood and bamboo to wipe the private area after going to the toilet

Before the invention of paper, the ancients used small pieces of wood and bamboo to “rub” the buttocks after defecation. Even after the invention of paper, because China had a tradition of “respecting writing paper”, and paper was relatively expensive, it was a luxury to use paper to wipe the intimate area. In the Song Dynasty, the Emperor then ordered the supply of hemp paper, which could not be written, they were 60×90 cm in size for use in the restroom. This can be considered the first toilet paper sample created to serve the purpose of cleaning people when going to the toilet.

6. Ancient women used bark, animal skins, “menstrual father” to handle menstruation

“Menstrual father” was used by ancient women when they had their period.

In primitive society, women “coming up” only used hay or leaves to treat blood stains. Switching to a slave society, women in this period would use bark or animal skin to cover their sensitive parts, when “months” they would use some dry material to absorb blood.

In the feudal society, when tampons were not invented, Chinese women used an item called “menstrual father”. Menstruation is a long piece of cloth, used to tightly wrap the lower body on the days “coming months”. These sheets can be washed and reused many times after use.

7. Ancient women used 7 ears of persimmon to prevent pregnancy

According to ancient Chinese folklore, using 7 ears of persimmons dried on a tile to dry, swallowing with boiling water to cool each day for 49 days continuously for 49 days thus ensures 1 year of no pregnancy, but in that year no pregnancy. If you eat persimmon, it will lose its effect. If you want to get pregnant, eat 7 pink ears again.