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[[File:Green glazed toilet with pigsty model. Eastern Han dynasty 25 - 220 CE.jpg|thumb|Model of toilet with pigsty (China, Eastern Han dynasty 25–220 AD).]]<br />
A '''pig toilet''' (sometimes called a "pig sty [[latrine]]") is a simple type of [[dry toilet]] consisting of an [[outhouse]] mounted over a [[pigsty]], with a chute or hole connecting the two. The [[pig|pigs]] consume the feces of the users of the toilet, as well as other food.{{CN|date=December 2020}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Pig toilets ({{CJKV|c=猪圈毛坑}} ''zhūquānmáokēng'') were once common in rural China, where a single Chinese [[ideogram]] ({{zh|c=圂|p=hùn}}) signifies both "pigsty" and "privy".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=N5dN_A29v58C&pg=PA16 Ancestors for the Pigs: Pigs in Prehistory, Sarah M Nelson, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, 1998, ISSN 1048-5325 (p.16)]</ref> [[Grave goods|Funerary model]]s of pig toilets from the [[Han dynasty]] (206 BC to AD 220) prove that it was an ancient custom.<ref>[http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?id=4793&v=2&t=1&n=1&keyword=Pig%20Sty Minneapolis Institute of Art: Han Dynasty Pig Sty-Latrine]</ref> These arrangements have been strongly discouraged by the Chinese authorities in recent years,<ref>[http://www.watersanitationhygiene.org/References/EH_KEY_REFERENCES/SANITATION/Latrine%20Design%20and%20Construction/Sanitation%20Without%20Water%20(Winblad%20Kitama).pdf Sanitation Without Water, Uno Winblad and Wen Kilama, MacMillan 1985] {{ISBN|0-333-39140-3}} (p.13)</ref> although as late as 2005 they could still be found in remote northern provinces.<ref>[http://www.chemeng.lth.se/vva030/Arkiv/Lecture_SanSyst-Lund-0911.pdf Appropriate Sanitation Systems in Developing Countries, Technical University of Denmark (p.9 of 10)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425123836/http://www.chemeng.lth.se/vva030/Arkiv/Lecture_SanSyst-Lund-0911.pdf |date=2012-04-25 }}</ref><br />
[[File:Fuuru in Pre-war Showa era.JPG|thumb|A ''fuuru'' (pig toilet) in early 20th century Okinawa]]<br />
Chinese influence may have spread the use of pig toilets to [[Okinawa]] (Okinawan: ふーる (''fūru'') / 風呂) before [[World War II]].<ref>[http://oki-park.jp/kyoudo/en/study/minka.html Native Okinawan Village Official Site: Unique Features of an Okinawan Home] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406122325/http://oki-park.jp/kyoudo/en/study/minka.html |date=2012-04-06 }}</ref><br />
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Pig toilets were also used in parts of India such as [[Goa]].<ref>Harding, Paul (1998), [https://books.google.com/books?id=cmO6M63ISKYC&pg=PA197&dq=goa&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=goa ''Goa''], Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, {{ISBN|1-74059-139-9}} (p. 197)</ref> A 2003 survey of sanitary arrangements in Goa and [[Kerala]] found that 22.7% of the population still used pig toilets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/672891468324551045/pdf/396690Total0sanitation01PUBLIC1.pdf |title=Community-Led Total Sanitation in Rural Areas: An Approach that Works |last1=Sanan |first1=Deepak |last2=Moulik |first2=Soma Ghosh |page=5 |date=February 2007 |website=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs |publisher=Water and Sanitation Program - South Asia |access-date=6 March 2014}}</ref><br />
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On [[Jejudo]], a volcanic island of South Korea that is home to a [[Jeju Black pig|breed of black pig]], the pig toilets were known as ''dottongsi'' ({{CJKV|k=돗통시}}).<ref>[http://www.ijto.or.kr/english/index.php?cid=22 Stories about Jeju: Food, Lodging and Clothing]</ref> These pigsty toilets were still in use in the 1960s.<ref>[http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2872445 "Jeju's black pig still tasty on the table"] @ [http://joongangdaily.joins.com/ ''JoongAng Daily''], February 15, 2007.</ref><br />
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===Fishpond toilet===<br />
In China, "Family dwellings are commonly built close to the [[fish pond]] with toilets overhanging the pond to facilitate fertilization. ... Some pigsties as well as latrines for humans are built on the adjacent dike so as to overhang the pond." But by 1988, these fish pond toilets were falling out of favour, as the farmers found it more useful to ferment human and pig excrement together, and apply it to the [[aquaculture]] ponds as needed.<ref>{{cite book|title=Integrated Agriculture-Aquaculture in South China: The Dike-Pond System of the Zhujiang Delta|last1=Kenneth Ruddle, Gongfu Zhong|date=1988|publisher=Cambridge|pages=173}}</ref><br />
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In Vietnam, the traditional fish pond toilet, which was described as "widespread" as recently as 2008, polluted the waterways, but was perceived as more hygienic (less smelly) than various modern alternatives that the government was pressing on the villagers.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty|last1=Mader|first1=Philip|date=12 January 2016|publisher=Springer|page=144}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Coprophagia]]<br />
*[[History of water supply and sanitation]]<br />
*[[Toilet god]]<br />
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