What was the interior of the ancient sedan chair like? Is it the same as the one in the TV?

The sedan chair in the costume drama is extremely simple, just surrounded by an embroidery belt and hydrangea, it is too shabby, the ancient sedan chair is actually very exquisite, the sedan chair can be carved with a dragon and a phoenix, and the sedan body is carved with a variety of animals and character stories that represent auspiciousness, vivid images, and the TV series is very different.

The interior of the sedan chair is comfortable, with a lot of decoration and is exquisite. is not the same as in TV, the interior of the sedan chair in film and television dramas is not as delicate as in ancient times.

It is different that the inside of the previous sedan chair was not fixed with a nail, and the mortise and tenon joint was used to stabilize the entire sedan chair.

The interior of the ancient sedan chair is very luxurious, far beyond the sedan chair we see on the screen, and there is still a big gap between it and the TV series.

"Thousands of acres of fertile land, ten miles of red makeup," was the wedding that many ancient women dreamed of, and in the mighty welcoming procession, it was naturally indispensable to decorate a large sedan chair. What I want to talk about today is that the sedan chair with gold leaf appliqué in the Qing Dynasty, which enjoys the reputation of "the first sedan chair in the world", is the treasure of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum and has been selected as a "National Treasure".

This Qing gold leaf appliqué sedan chair is a Ningbo-style sedan chair in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, exquisite and gorgeous, resplendent with gold, like a miniature palace made of **. There is a three-dimensional golden lotus blooming on the top of the sedan car, the sedan body is symmetrical before and after, carved with various characters and flowers, birds, insects and beasts, all of them are vivid and lifelike, each painting is a fragment of a classical famous drama. Its production process is extremely complex, it takes more than 10 craftsmen 10 years to complete, and it takes more than 10,000 man-hours, so people call it "10,000 sedan chairs".

This is the real Qing Dynasty sedan chair, the simple red sedan chair in the TV series, with a ribbon and hydrangea, is really too simple, and it looks even more shabby compared to this sedan chair.

This "10,000-worker sedan chair" is said to be the most luxurious sedan chair in existence. Presumably, the owner of this sedan chair must be either rich or expensive, and the woman who rides this sedan must also be from a large family, right?

In fact, this "Wangong sedan chair" belongs to a sedan shop, which specializes in renting festive supplies, which is equivalent to the current wedding company. But even if it's rented, ordinary women can't afford it.

If you are careful, you may find that there is no special sedan door for this sedan chair, how can the bride get on the sedan chair?

It turns out that this sedan chair is assembled with hundreds of pieces of wood carved boards, all of which are connected by mortise and tenon joints, without using a nail, the flower board is not fixed, and the bride can remove the flower board before the sedan chair!

As we all know, in the traditional marriage customs, a sedan chair is the most indispensable prop. But this kind of 10,000 sedan chair is particularly high in its specifications, carved with 24 phoenixes, 38 dragons, or eight sedan chairs.

It stands to reason that carving dragons and phoenixes should be exclusive to the royal family, why is there such a sedan chair that transgresses etiquette? This has to start with Song Gaozong. It is said that soon after Song Gaozong Zhao Gou ascended the throne, the Jin soldiers went south, and Zhao Gou, who was "afraid of gold disease", fled in a hurry and fled to a lake in the Ningshao Plain, and there was no way out.

Later, Song Gaozong sent a decree to find the girl who rescued the driver, but did not find it, so he ordered that the women of eastern Zhejiang can enjoy the special treatment of half of the phoenix when they get married, and the sedan chair can be carved and painted with a phoenix.

The truth of the legend is impossible to verify, but the custom of the bride riding a sedan chair has been handed down and slowly evolved into "ten miles of red makeup".

The sedan chair should be familiar to everyone, in ancient times when the traffic was not developed, carriages, sedan chairs, boats, horses, donkeys are everyone's main means of transportation, generally ** family or rich people are dominated by horses and carriages, horses in ancient times are equivalent to the cars in people's homes now, can afford to buy horses family economy should be good, and women with status are mainly sedan chairs to go out, when the time is called the shoulder, and ordinary people are not allowed to sit on the shoulder, unless the emperor gave a license, which is a symbol of status. Including getting married, ordinary people can't use it, but use a chariot pulled by horses to marry.

The sedan chair marriage began in the Song Dynasty Song Gaozong Zhao Gou period, "Tokyo Menghualu" and "Five Miscellaneous Tales" have records of the sedan chair marrying a woman into the door. Zhao Gou is a veritable emperor who escaped, every time the Jin army called, he began to flee, once fled to the Ningbo Mansion when he encountered a river in front, neither a boat nor a bridge, the Jin army was in hot pursuit, there was a girl by the river at that time was washing clothes, he hid in the water in a hurry, and the girl covered him with a pile of clothes next to him to help him escape the pursuit of the Jin army.

Later, Zhao Gou returned to the palace to find out the girl and thank him, but he did not find it, so he ordered the girls of this generation of Ningbo Mansion to marry can enjoy the treatment of four sedan chairs, and the sedan chair can be carved with the pattern of the phoenix, this practice slowly spread over time, and later the people followed suit, and the form of the sedan chair is also increasing, Zhejiang Museum has retained a sedan chair is left in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, which is very different from the sedan chair in the TV series.

It is called "Wangong sedan chair", because the procedure of making this sedan chair is cumbersome and complicated, the process is counted as tens of thousands, and the production time is 10 years, and it is 10 old craftsmen at the same time, so with this title, its real name is "gold leaf applique sedan chair", from the name you can see that it must be a "luxury car" at that time, and it is also the most luxurious sedan chair now.

This sedan chair needs eight people to lift, all of the mortise and tenon structure is connected, that is to say, the whole sedan chair does not have a nail but is very strong, the mortise and tenon structure itself is extremely delicate internal structure, its appearance is mainly golden, like a miniature form of the palace, and with round carving, relief, openwork three crafts, the car is carved with 250 characters and flowers, insects, birds and beasts on it, there are "Water Margin", "Tianshui Pass", "Jade Bracelet", "West Chamber" and other opera scenes reproduced, The sedan chair is surrounded by hundreds of pieces of vermilion wood carved flower plates, which is very luxurious. If you want to take the inside of the sedan chair or take this sedan chair, you also need a special master to "open the door". Because the inside of the sedan chair requires a special master to remove dozens of pieces of Zhujin wood carved flower boards before entering, this is the appearance of the real sedan chair in ancient times.

In ancient times, the sedan chair was very gorgeous, and the whole shape was like a gorgeous palace, covered with gold leaf, and there were various patterns of flowers and birds. is different from the costume dramas, the looks in the costume dramas are very simple and cannot be compared at all.

The sedan chair in ancient times is actually similar to that in the TV series. However, the material and color of the ancient sedan chair are better than those in film and television dramas. Now the color of the sedan chair in film and television dramas is more vivid, and it was not so gorgeous in ancient times.

The ancient sedan chair is still divided into family status, if it is a royal and official family, the sedan chair is more grand, more colorful, and the fabric is also the best, if it is a common person, it is basically the simplest red sedan chair, which is similar to the TV series.

The interior of the ancient sedan chair is the same as that described in the current movie, because the sedan chair in modern film and television is basically made with reference to ancient documents.

It's different, because in order to save costs, the interior of the movie is made very simple, with only one cushion, and the real interior is very luxurious.

The sedan chair of the ancient bride is actually more luxurious, not as simple as in the TV series, and marriage in ancient times is a very grand thing.

The gold leaf appliqué sedan chair is extravagant. Every detail of it is exquisite, and the car roof is composed of 5 archways, which means "five mountains to the sky". The base of vermilion lacquer is compacted with gold leaf appliqués, like a splendid palace.

The top sedan chair does not have a special car door, it is assembled with hundreds of pieces of flower carving, there is not a single nail, and the flower plate is not fixed. The bride gets on the sedan chair and removes the flower board.

Everyone must have seen what the sedan chair looked like when they got married in ancient times in film and television dramas or all kinds of books, but after all, the production budget is limited, and generally no one will spend time and energy to copy a real sedan chair.

No matter what era a girl has ever imagined the scene when she got married, even if it was a boudoir girl who stayed at home in ancient times. The marriage of their dreams is probably ten miles red. And in addition to a couple of newlyweds, a sedan chair is essential.

Nowadays, many women may have imagined in their minds what the ancient sedan chair looked like.

Today, I want to say that Zhejiang has a sedan chair with gold leaf appliqué, which can be called the first sedan chair in the world. This sedan chair is a style sedan chair in Ningbo in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, may not need too much language introduction, people who see it will spontaneously admire its beauty, it can be said that it is like a small palace built with **. I saw that there was a three-dimensional carved golden lotus on the top of the sedan chair, and there were various landscape character carving patterns around the sedan chair, each of which was vivid and interesting.

Of course, in addition to this, some ancient famous dramas are also carved on the sedan chair, even if only some fragments of it are intercepted, but it is enough for people to praise. This sedan chair was regarded as the top configuration in ancient times, carved with twenty-four phoenixes, thirty-eight dragons, of course, it is also eight sedan chairs, and it takes eight big men to carry before leaving.

It took so much time and effort to create this unique sedan chair. This sedan chair brought together more than a dozen craftsmen and took a total of ten years to build together.

Seeing this sedan chair, and then looking at the sedan chair in the film and television drama, the two can't be compared together, in fact, everyone can understand, after all, the production cost is limited, and the scenes of the sedan chair do not appear much, and the reasonable use of resources is understandable. And this sedan chair is known as the sedan chair, in fact, it took more than 10,000 hours to build, and it was called it.

This sedan chair is actually the most luxurious in the world at present, and many people may guess who the owner of the sedan chair is when they see it, and what kind of wedding this woman has. Presumably she must be a big lady. But in fact, this sedan chair does not belong to a certain woman.

This sedan chair belongs to a sedan shop, which specializes in renting wedding supplies, in fact, just like today's wedding companies. But even in ancient times, it was something that ordinary girls could not afford. Another special thing is that this sedan chair does not have a car door, which can be said to be very special in this design.

You may be curious, the sedan chair does not have a sedan door, so how does the bride enter the sedan chair. In fact, this sedan chair is composed of hundreds of wood carved flower boards, all of which are mortise and tenon structures, and the flower boards are not firmly bound between the flower boards, and when the bride gets on the sedan chair, people only need to take the flower boards away. I don't know when it comes to this, the ancient ten-mile red makeup, just from the sedan chair, there is a lot of exquisiteness, not to mention the red that enters the eyes.