What modern people call "the bottom of the box" refers to the treasure at home, or something at the bottom of the box that has certain significance and is worth cherishing or cherishing. It is also a metaphor for using all the skills at home. At the same time, the bottom of the wardrobe can also extend what natural people want to abandon when their interest in their own things decreases.

The "closet bottom" mentioned by the ancients is a kind of porcelain, some of which are smaller than fists, most of which are fruit-shaped, covered and have the shape of a pair of men and women having intercourse. Usually, people put it at the bottom of the box to ward off evil spirits. Before the daughter got married, the mother took out the "bottom of the box" and opened the lid to show her the way of husband and wife. The above is the narrow sense of the closet bottom. In fact, in addition to interesting porcelain, the bottom of the pressure box also contains many interesting related objects.

In A Dream of Red Mansions, the maid silly elder sister found the sachet of "two goblins fighting" on the rockery in the Grand View Garden. Because the ancient traditional culture thought that the joy of boudoir was extremely private, outsiders were not allowed to enter, otherwise it would be immoral and unmarried women should not watch it. Therefore, although these things are widely circulated, they are always kept secret, so that the maid picked up an embroidered spring bag, which caused an uproar and led to the action of the Jia family to inspect the Grand View Garden.

The picture shows some dowry instruments in ancient times:

The extended information "closet bottom" now refers to the treasure or skill of housekeeping, but it was a way of sex education in ancient times.

The ancients always attached importance to sex education. Liu Dalin, director of China Sexual Culture Exhibition Hall, said that "the bottom of the pressure box" is something similar to a small porcelain box. Open the lid like a fruit, and there is a statue of a man and a woman mating.

This kind of thing was originally put at the bottom of the box to kill evil spirits. When her daughter was about to get married, the mother showed her the "bottom of the box", suggesting that they were husband and wife. But in some places, mothers will put some paper paintings in their daughters' dowry to depict the scenes of intercourse between men and women, commonly known as dowry paintings.

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