Simple production of ancient sedan chair

Sedan chair is a wheelless structure with handlebars, in which passengers sit, carried by two or more people on their shoulders or hands, and transported on foot.

A person who sits in a sedan chair is called a sedan chair bearer.

Compared with other old-fashioned means of transportation such as carriages, sedan chairs are slower, but more stable and comfortable.

Sedan chairs are also suitable for walking on narrow and tortuous streets.

In addition, the club, society, place and status of sedan chair passengers can also be displayed because of hiring manpower to transport them.

Before and after the Tang Dynasty in China, most people in sedan chairs were royalty, women, children, the elderly and officials.

Sedan chairs have been widely popular since the Song Dynasty.

In modern times, sedan chairs were first replaced by rickshaws, and then by cars.

At present, except for a few steep mountain areas where there are no roads, chairs and sliding bars are still used as means of transportation. Sedan chairs are generally only used for tourism, sightseeing, entertainment, music, and traditional ceremonies such as marriage, ceremony, funeral and ceremony.

A sedan chair generally refers to a person sitting in a box seat.

Among them, cool car (bright car, obvious car) does not cover the curtain on the box frame, and warm car (dark car) covers the curtain.

The frame of a warm car is generally a vertical rectangle made of wood, with two cylindrical wooden bars fixed on both sides in the middle, the bottom closed with wooden boards, and the top with a backrest seat box.

The top, left, right and back sides of the car are sealed with curtains to protect from wind and rain, protect, protect, ride, guest, private and private.

There is a curtain that can be tilted in front to facilitate communication between passengers and bearers.

In addition, in the upper part of the car curtains on both sides, small windows are often opened to cover the curtains.

The use of an open platform instead of a box box is called Yu or Bu Yu.

The Book of Rites of Sui Shu in the Southern Dynasties recorded: "As for * * *, the son of heaven stepped by step, four feet square, covered his knees and lifted it.

There is no prohibition.

The same is true for lifting jade, except that you don't give your feet, so you can sit on the table. But some walkways also use closed boxes.

Gorgeous decorations, also known as chariots, are generally limited to emperors or royalty.

For example, Tang Taizong, depicted in the Tang Dynasty painting "The Travel Map", was riding on a platform-type walking net and was carried by six maids.

In Qing dynasty, the monthly salary of bearers was one or two, but the bearers had loose copper coins, often more than one or two.