Is it a traditional custom since ancient times for a woman to get married in a sedan chair?

The sedan chair, also called the sedan chair, is a special sedan chair used in traditional Chinese weddings. It is usually decorated with gorgeous red color to show the joy and auspiciousness, so it is commonly known as the big red sedan chair.

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Sedan chair is not from ancient times, but the woman sitting in the sedan chair thing is really not from ancient times, and, the Tang Dynasty people do not do the sedan chair, called the shoulders of the marsupial, this tool in the Tang Dynasty, many painters have appeared in the pen. And, ordinary people are not allowed to sit.

"Sedan chair" this kind of transportation in the life and formally left records in the canonical books, has been the late Tang Dynasty; its prototype "eaves" (mikoshi) popular, as early as the early Tang Dynasty. Before this, no matter the government and the people to get married, all the horse-drawn carriage to marry the bride.

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When did the sedan chair meet the bride? At the same time, the Tang and Song governments have issued a ban on the use of the gable or sedan chair by the common people, and only allowed the use of the emperor and his senior officials and courtiers by his authorization.

From the "Tokyo Dreaming Records", "five miscellaneous chopping board" and other Song and Ming writers can be seen, about since the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, began to "spend the eaves" to welcome the bride's popularity in Bianjing, to the Song Dynasty moved to Jiangnan, sedan chair to meet the bride to become a social fashion.

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Sedan chair in the modern circulation has been inherited since then. In terms of manpower, speed and cost, the sedan chair is obviously not as convenient as a horse and carriage, and may not be comparable in terms of comfort and splendor.

The sedan chair has been passed down since then.