More than 1900 years ago, Cai Lun （蔡伦）, a Chinese eunuch in the imperial court of the Han dynasty, invented a process for making paper using tree bark and silk.
Correspondingly, how did ancient Chinese poop?
People in China, like other people around the world, used human poop to fertilize their fields and grow more food. Then the poop fell down through a hole into a cesspool near the pigpen. … The pigs ate the poop and converted it into food.
Beside above, what did ancient Chinese use toilet paper for? Although paper originated in China in the second century B.C., the first recorded use of paper for cleansing is from the 6th century in medieval China, discovered in the texts of scholar Yen Chih-Thui.