How did ancient women menstruate?

How can ancient women not miss their periods? This tells you that the answer is unexpected.

How can ancient women not miss their periods? This tells you that the answer is unexpected. Ancient women didn't have as many sanitary products as modern women, and they didn't have menstrual belts with the advantages of side leakage prevention, softness and close fitting. But should menstruation come after all? What did ancient women do during their menstrual period?

In primitive society, women were afraid of menstruating because of people's worship and superstition of reproduction.

It is considered that women's menstrual blood is unknown, dripping on the ground is blasphemous, and dripping in water pollutes water sources. Therefore, once a woman has a month, she is generally not allowed to go out or go near a well. They can only use the leaves of hay, leaves and other plants at home to wipe blood, and dare not say anything. Women in primitive society are very tough. In the primitive society centered on matriarchal clan, women's monthly affairs have not received corresponding attention. It's interesting to think about the scene. A strong woman, leading a group of people to go hunting, suddenly had her period, probably going down her thigh. She has no clothes to hide her shame, but she dare not tell anyone. She was embarrassed.

In slave society, there is abundant material and surplus value. Mankind has gradually become civilized. At this time, women use bark or animal skin to sew underwear to hide their shame.

It's probably a woman wrapped in a long animal pimp. When menstruation comes, put something dry on the animal skin to absorb dirty blood. At this time, women learn to wash their vulva with water. For example, da ji, the concubine of Shang Zhouwang in Shang Dynasty, always took a bath when she was free. It is very convenient to take a bath in the big pool of "wine pool meat forest" No one dares to accuse her anyway. There are other ladies, such as Cong Si and Shi, who may all use silk, because sericulture began at this time, and sericulture is to make silk. Lei Zu was once the concubine of Emperor Xuanyuan, and the girls know the girls. I estimate that Cong Sihe Stone has used silk for a long time, but Cong Sihe won't listen. That's the voice she likes to hear. Rich women are very headstrong.

In feudal society, with the progress of society, the silk manufacturing industry has achieved unprecedented development and entered thousands of households.

"In the old society, Wang Xie Yan flew into the homes of ordinary people." Later, in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, Huang Daopo invented weaving. At this time, women's social status has been improved. Before the invention of papermaking, women used to put plant ash in a small piece of cloth and tie both ends around their waist with thin thread, which became a so-called sanitary belt. This primitive sanitary belt can be washed and used, and of course the rich can be discarded. Some aristocratic families will replace plant ash with new cotton, which is softer and easier to absorb water. The feudal society in China was very long. Cai Lun invented papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty and gradually replaced silk with paper. Paper is very expensive at this time, and perhaps only the upper class can use "toilet paper". For example, Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty is said to use "toilet paper" to wipe blood stains when menstruation comes, and at this time she also invented another feminine hygiene product-bra. But it wasn't called a bra then.

The imperial concubine secretly went to An Lushan. Later, she was quite rude. Because of her madness, she hurt her breasts with her fingers, so she made a decoration of Chebula to cover it up. "I decorate it with terminalia chebula." The terminalia chebula here is actually the prototype of the earliest bra. In modern times, there are many kinds of sanitary napkins, including strips and rods, which shows that the status of women has improved from the side.