Late Qing sedan chair in the end how?

In the wedding of ancient TV dramas, you can often see the bride out of the family always have to sit in the sedan chair, the sedan chair is also unique to ancient China's etiquette. In the traditional wedding, the sedan chair is an essential props, it can be the whole atmosphere of the wedding to the climax, the sedan chair's origin is quite controversial. Some people believe that the origin of the Tang Dynasty, the northern clansmen prohibited the activities of stealing marriages, from the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasty, the clansmen believe that the nobility of the family, the children's marriages will only be carried out in a small circle. Tang Gaozong, in Hong Kong Li Yifu from a poor family, but want to give his son from the seven big Wang clan to marry a wife, the results are unwilling

Li Yifu is very angry about this, encouraging the emperor to issue an edict saying that prohibit the seven big families from marrying each other, but the Wang clan where to be willing to do so? Then secretly in the evening to find a flowery veil to cover the ? The eaves?

To this end, Emperor Gaozong and Emperor Wenzong of the Tang Dynasty once banned the use of the "eaves". The eaves of the house were covered with flowers. Eaves? Gradually became a status symbol, the sedan chair spread more and more widely, because of the status symbols, concubines, widows remarried are not allowed to take the sedan chair to the front door. Of course, this is only one of the claims, there is also said to come because of a adventure of Zhao Gong, in fact, which is no one knows.

But the bride must sit in the sedan chair to get married this custom is y rooted in people's hearts, the Qing Dynasty during the Republic of China, once a woman refused to sit in the sedan chair. But this tradition has not disappeared, until the modern many people organized a Chinese wedding, or will be married in a sedan chair. Many people's impression of the sedan chair may be in the TV series, slightly with a ribbon, add an embroidered ball sedan chair, the same. But the real sedan chair is not that, the ancient sedan chair types and styles are very much, the custom of each place, the master's identity, the wedding family's wealth will cause the appearance of the sedan chair to change.

A set of old photos show that the ordinary family sedan chair is actually very general, and even worse than the TV series. Red festive, no matter what sedan chair is red, this point is fixed. The difference is the pattern on the top, through the old photos can be seen, in fact, the ordinary family sedan chair pattern is relatively simple, sedan chair is the same. Compared with the TV series is also similarly simple, but also some shabby. In fact, it is to see the degree of money, more money let you look good, less money let you spicy eyes. Decorated ornate there are many left, like the Qing Dynasty gold foil appliqué sedan chair, decorated with that called an aristocratic.

This gold foil applique sedan chair look from the rich family, decorated with luxury like a small palace, sedan chair light carving there are three craft techniques. The top is a three-dimensional shape of the blooming lotus, sedan chair body has 250 figures, flowers, birds, insects and animals decoration, luxury to the extreme. The structure belongs to the front and back piled up with 24 phoenixes, 38 dragons, 54 cranes, 74 magpies, 92 lions and 124 pomegranates carved. The symbolism of all these is excellent, like the pomegranate, which signifies many sons and many blessings. As for the figures, they are scenes from operas, The Tale of the Thorn Hairpin, The Gathering of the Jade Bracelet, and so on.

It is worth noting that this sedan chair does not have a door, nor is there a single nail, it is all connected with mortise and tenon structure. Of course, if someone is really inside, getting out of the sedan chair is more trouble than it's worth. Its ornamental value has long outweighed its practical value, and the fact that it can be decorated so lavishly is said to stem from the fact that Zhao Jiu had given an order to allow the women of Ningbo to use a four-carried sedan chair. Because the queen is sitting on the eight lift, four lift is just half the specification, so the Ningbo sedan chair and half of the luan driving called.