Tang Dynasty bone toothbrush unearthed in Chengdu, Chinese hair planting machine can be traced back to thousands of years ago_Latest News

The Tang Dynasty bone toothbrush unearthed in Chengdu pushed forward the development history of hair-planted toothbrushes in my country for more than 200 years, indicating that there were already hair-planted toothbrushes in the Tang Dynasty in my country. The earliest dental ware in China is willow branch. In the late Tang Dynasty, people soaked willow branches in water, and when they needed to use them, they bit open the willow branches with their teeth, and the willow fibers inside would come out, like tiny wooden comb teeth, very convenient for toothbrushing. Archaic“Morning Chew”That's the source. In the Song Dynasty, there was already a substitute similar to toothpaste. The ancients boiled it with Poria cocos and other medicinal materials.“paleo toothpaste”, Get up early to rinse your mouth. If you are afraid that the cleaning will not be clean, you can use your fingers instead of the current toothbrush, or else, it is the willow branch mentioned earlier, stained with ancient toothpaste to clean the teeth. Judging from the records in ancient books, by the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were shops specializing in the production and sale of toothbrushes in the city. At that time, the toothbrush was made of bone, horn, bamboo, wood and other materials, with two rows of pores drilled on the head, and a horsetail was planted on it. It's pretty close to a modern toothbrush. According to records, since the first toothbrush in Europe appeared in AD 1780, the history of oral hygiene in China is at least 800 years earlier than that of Europeans.