The Forbidden City in the dragon chair sitting up comfortable, Puyi why this dragon chair can not be so good to sit?

In fact, the Forbidden City is not only the Forbidden City in Beijing, there are our Liaoning Shenyang Imperial Palace, Shenyang Imperial Palace is now China's second most complete palace building. In the Shenyang Imperial Palace there is also a dragon chair, one is in the Dazheng Hall of rosewood carving dragon chair, there is also a Chongzheng Hall on the dragon chair.

Of course, this article is mainly about the dragon chair in the Beijing Imperial Palace.

Chinese emperors of all generations, they think they are the true son of the dragon, by order of heaven, is the Lord of the people. And the emperors sat in the chair can not be ordinary chair, people generally call it ? Dragon Chair?

So what material is the dragon chair in the Forbidden City? How does it feel to sit?

painted (xiu) gold carved dragon wooden chair in the end have gone through what?

The dragon chair is just a common name, it also has a more high-end atmospheric class name? Painting (xiu) gold carved dragon wooden chair, which sounds very elegant.

It looks very different from the ordinary seat, its four cushions are carved on the golden five-clawed golden dragon. It also has no chair legs, is with a width of about 2.5 meters, about 1 meter deep ? Sumeru seat? Support. Sumeru seat is also called? Vajra seat? It is a base for placing statues of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. Placing the dragon chair on the Sumeru seat is not only sturdy, but also highlights the supremacy of the emperor.

The above mentioned dragon chair are now placed in the Forbidden City in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, according to expert research, the dragon chair is a relic of the Ming Dynasty when the Emperor Jiajing, and in it there is a twisted history.

As we all know, Yuan Shikai stole the fruits of the victory of the Xinhai Revolution, and in 1915, he ascended to the throne as emperor. Although Yuan Shikai only reigned for eighty-three days, he caused great damage to the furnishings in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City.

Yuan Shikai threw away many of the temple's furnishings, even the most important dragon chair, which was replaced by a Western-style chair. Later, after Yuan Shikai's death, this western-style seat also poses as the dragon chair for a long time.

Until 1959, experts studying the culture of the Forbidden City, in order to restore the appearance of the Forbidden City, looking around for the Dragon Chair, and finally in an old photo, a glimpse of the shape of the Dragon Chair.

After a few searches, in an old warehouse to find the dragon chair has been mutilated. In order to restore it to its original form, the Palace invited many famous masters to do the restoration work for it, and it took nearly three years to restore it to the way we can see it today.

When did the dragon chair appear? What are its materials?

The dragon? The history of being worshipped as a totem is already very long, but the dragon as a symbol of the emperor has to be counted from the Han Dynasty. Han Gaozu Liu Bang claimed that his mother dreamed of God, in the Pei of the Great Zephyr, there is a dragon in its body, and later and pregnant, gave birth to his own, and thus claimed to be the son of the real dragon, and the emperor after that followed this statement.

The chair? This kind of thing is not before the Western Jin Dynasty, before the ancients are sitting on the ground. Later, during the Western Jin Dynasty, the Hu? Hu bed? was introduced into the Central Plains, and then after continuous improvement, it became a chair. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, chairs became popular among the powerful and wealthy, and began to be commonly used in the Song Dynasty.

According to the available records, the dragon chair first appeared in the Tang Dynasty Lang Yu Ling, "the emperors and kings through the ages," the Tang Emperor Li Shimin sat in the chair armrests, the back of the chair are carved with some dragon type. The top is covered with soft cushions and backrests, in order to make the emperor sit comfortably.

Mentioning the issue of comfort, the material of the dragon chair is very important. Generally we see in the palace drama of the dragon chair is yellow, looks like gold made.

But in fact, the dragon chair is made of three kinds of wood: small-leaf rosewood, gold nanmu and birch.

Small-leaf rosewood grows slowly and in small quantities, so it is also extremely valuable, the value of the top grade rosewood is even far more than gold, plus it is purple in color with black, it looks extremely majestic, so it was chosen as one of the materials for the dragon chair.

Golden nanmu is also a very valuable wood, wood for the texture with gold, and the material is strong, not easy to damage, so it is also the best material to build the dragon chair. When the foundation of the dragon chair production is completed, the craftsmen will be in the chair for the carving of the dragon type, a dragon chair on the nine dragons, and then brush a layer of gold lacquer, a dragon chair is considered to be completed.

Emperor's dragon chair sitting up comfortable comfortable? Puyi said: this dragon chair can not be so good to sit!

The Dragon Chair is the emperor's exclusive position, its symbolism is naturally inseparable from the emperor.

First of all, the Dragon Chair is a symbol of the emperor's identity. In ancient times, there were many exclusive objects for the emperor, such as the dragon bed, dragon robe, dragon chair and so on. These are the emperor's unique identity status performance, represents the inviolable majesty, if someone dares to wear the dragon robe, sitting in the dragon chair, it is a great crime to be put to death of the nine clans.

Secondly, the dragon chair is a symbol of the emperor's supreme power. The dragon chair implies the ? The first chair? s meaning, is the first chair of the whole world, and the person who can sit on this chair is naturally the master of this world.

Under the sky, there is no one who is not the king's land; the rate of the land, there is no one who is not the king's minister. The emperor as the master of the world, the power owned by the natural also need to highlight, and the status and role of the dragon chair, in fact, with the state seal is basically equivalent, are to symbolize the sublime imperial power.

According to legend, Wei Zheng, an important minister of the Tang Dynasty, once asked Tang Taizong Li Shimin, ? Do you know why you are the emperor? Li Shimin thought of a few answers Wei Zheng said no, Wei Zheng told Li Shimin, it is because he is sitting on this dragon chair, is the emperor. This shows that the significance represented by the dragon chair can not be underestimated.

The dragon chair if you say comfortable, certainly not as comfortable as our lazy sofa sitting today, but it can bring the spirit of pleasure, it is certainly lazy sofa can not reach. In ancient times, everyone wants to sit on the dragon chair, not just to sit, but more importantly for that supreme position of power. So the dragon chair does not have to sit how comfortable, but can not beat sitting in the heart of the people comfortable ah.

On the Dragon Chair, to say that sitting comfortably, perhaps from the late Puyi's words can be glimpsed, after labor reform Puyi late in life in the capacity of a citizen to come to the throne room again, others suggested that he sat in the Dragon Chair once more, this time Puyi said: "This Dragon Chair is not so good. This dragon chair is not so good to sit.

See, this chair, do up comfortable, only sat people know!