A Brief Introduction To Toothbrushes in Ancient China

From the ancient book records, China to the Southern Song Dynasty, the city has a special production, sales of toothbrush shop. The toothbrush at that time was made of bone, horn, bamboo, wood and other materials, with several rows of pores drilled on the head and a horsettail planted on it. It is very close to the modern toothbrush.

The Southern Song Dynasty commonly known as toothbrush "toothbrush son" : the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu describes the life of the note-style monograph "Dream Liang Lu" volume 13 wrote: "in the color sundry goods have toothbrush son. Southern Song Dynasty people Zhou Shouzhong wrote the health books "kind of Zanzhong all home health treasure", and even specifically discussed the time to brush your teeth with a toothbrush should not be arranged in the morning: "get up early not brush your teeth, fear root float and teeth thin easy to shake, a long time with toothache, cover brush your teeth are horsetail for it, very damaged." Because the roots are loose in the morning and the ponytail is hard.

The bronze toothbrush of the Qin Dynasty is shaped like a smoke pot. In the front of the round hole into the cloth, you can brush your teeth.

The shape and function of toothbrushes made of ivory in the Tang Dynasty are no different from those of modern toothbrushes. What is more special is that these Tang toothbrushes have sharp handles and can be used as toothpicks. It can be called the oldest multifunctional toothbrush unearthed.

Liao dynasty toothbrush, Liao emperor's son-in-law tomb unearthed bone toothbrush.

The toothbrush of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period was made of ivory and donkey bone.

Song Dynasty toothbrush, material for tiger bone, ivory, donkey bone.

The Ming dynasty toothbrush even added a special handle design.