Reveal the history of mankind laundry: plant ash is the earliest 'laundry detergent' Music in Japan

By instinct, humans have long found that clothes can be by water washing to become clean again. The oldest known about laundry records appeared on the Egyptian tomb murals, time around 2000 BC. There was a picture depicting the scene of a group of men bending over laundry: both in scrub the two men in the fold, and the other two people hard twist dry. This age of people with both hands, scouring power and clubs strike force of the water in the river to wash clothes, you can see at this time the laundry is a how time-consuming, arduous physical labor.


working people of ancient China laundry use dao clothing more pestle, say again, anvil wooden, by the power of the dao clothing pestle make clothes, washed the dirt out. So our country ancient washing called & other; Dao clothing & throughout; 。 Jin dynasty Cao Pi the night listening to dao clothing is recorded. In the tang dynasty, the widely appeared in bookman verse, such as li bai wu song at midnight, a # 3: & other; Changan a month, thousands of households dao clothing. The autumn wind blowing, always YuGuan mood. When will the ping hu lu, beloved expedition '? ” This way of laundry has been spread to the.





dao clothing pestle is said to be the people living in the water for washing is convenient, if you live in a place far away from the water and rub garment board was invented. For laundry a description of the most beautiful, & other; Xi shi wun sha & throughout; .


plant ash to become the earliest & other; Washing powder & throughout;


original clothing clean material is people in worship or barbecue, came across with some material objects easier to wash, and then find the reason, discovered the secret of clean clothes. The magical substance is plant ash.


the rites & middot; Term 'said & other; Crowned scale, and the grey wash. ” Mean hat strap dirty, mixing plant ash to wash. This is because the plant ash of potash to remove grease. During this period, in addition to plant ash, people still use animal oil, vegetable oil, honeylocust, clean clothes and alkali salt mixing way. The han dynasty when people already know use natural stone alkali washing clothes. People in the jin dynasty stone alkali adding starch, spices, sale made spindle shaped. The late Ming dynasty, Beijing has the shop specializes in artificial musk alkali.


honeylocust is also an important kind of washing supplies, scientific name honeylocust acacia, very tenacious, stamp can be used to wash clothes. When the southern song dynasty capital city linan ( Now hangzhou) Streets there is an orange size, made of acacia powder circle, careful in the wulin old story recorded in its name & other; Soap group & throughout; 。 Soap into the water, foam can decontamination. Later, introduced from the west and its efficacy similar to that of detergent, is also called & other; Soap & throughout; .


the elders said & other Soap & throughout; And what about? Northern and southern dynasties, jia sixie already mention to scale with pig pancreas. The tang dynasty & other; Drug & throughout; Sun simiao's daughter side has a formula: wash with pig pancreas, grinding into powder, add flour spice particles. This is an ancient soap, is also called the bath. People later and alkali soap and incense together, make dumplings large groups, such as osmanthus soap, soap rose.


mechanical washing & other; The laundry & throughout; Inspired


in the sea voyage, the sailors put the dirty clothes into a cloth, moored in the boat with the rope, cloth is thrown into the sea, sail on make water agitation, beating clothes, the clothes to wash. By & other; The laundry & throughout; Inspired in 1677, someone invented a washing device, the device is the prototype of the modern washing machines.


in 1858, one is called Hamilton & middot; Smith of the American people in Pittsburgh produced the world's first washing machine. But this washing machine to use, and damage to the clothes, and therefore has not been widely used, but it is marked by the beginning of the laundry machine. In 1874, americans bill & middot; Blacksburg, invented the wooden hand washing machine. In 1880, the United States, the steam washing machine, to people's physical labor reduce greatly, laundry have flourished. After the hydraulic washing machine washing machine, internal combustion engine appeared one after another. In 1910, the United States, the fisher successfully trial-produced at the Chicago world's first electric washing machine. Electric washing machine, symbolized the beginning of the human household automation.