What is the size of the sedan chair to make a perfect red sedan chair for her?

First, the wedding sedan chair

The sedan chair, also called the wedding sedan chair, is a special kind of sedan chair used in traditional weddings in China. Generally, the decoration is gorgeous, and red is used to express happiness and good luck, so it is commonly called red sedan chair.

The original name of the sedan chair is Yu, and the earliest record is Sima Qian's Historical Records, which shows that there were sedan chairs as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Two shoulders were popular in the Jin and Six Dynasties, that is, sedan chairs carried by people. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it was named "sedan chair". In the Northern Song Dynasty, sedan chairs were only used by the royal family. When Song Gaozong Zhao Gou crossed Lin 'an (now Hangzhou) in the south, the relevant sedan chair ban was abolished. Since then, sedan chairs have developed into people's means of transportation and become more and more popular. Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty made a kind of "Dragon Shoulder Yu" for the queen, which was decorated with four walking dragons, and made chairs, pedals, doors and windows with vermicelli rattan. There is a red Luoyin mattress and a soft screen curtain inside, and there are fences, door curtains and curtains outside. This is the earliest colorful jade (sedan chair).

The application of sedan chair in marriage was first seen in Song Dynasty, and then it gradually became a folk custom. At that time, the woman to be married was dressed up at home, and in the early morning, the man would send a bright sedan chair to meet her, which was called "being in a hurry". It is said that if several families get married at the same time that day, whoever catches up early will be happy in the future. Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty recorded this in Meng Lianggu's Marrying a Wife. This custom is still very popular in villages along the Wenhe River in Ningyang County, Tai 'an City.

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Wedding sedan chair

Second, the production scale of sedan chair.

Sedan chair, also called happiness sedan chair, also called colorful sedan chair. There are two kinds of "hard clothes" and "soft clothes". Hard-fitting style: All-wood structure, with a quadrangular pagoda top, generally six inches square, five feet or more high, and most of the inches and points are consistent with the auspicious word "six". A phoenix with wings spread stands in every corner of the eaves. With colored balls in his mouth, he hung three feet six inches of HongLing colored balls on his feet, and hung bronze bells in Leizhou and other places in Guangdong. The eaves on all sides are densely covered with red silk spikes, and the patterns such as Kirin sending the son, dragon and phoenix becoming auspicious and Eight Immortals crossing the sea are carefully painted on them. Soft clothes; The frame is surrounded by red silk, embroidered with patterns such as goldfish as lotus and Feng Dan facing the sun, which are colorful and prosperous. The folklore around sedan chair is rich and colorful, so we choose to summarize it now.

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Third, the purpose of the sedan chair.

The main purpose of sitting in a sedan chair is to take the bride to her husband's house for a wedding. If the groom goes to the wedding, he usually rides a horse, and sometimes he can follow him in a small blue, green or even red sedan chair. However, because the wedding has not yet been held, according to tradition, the bride and groom will not share a sedan chair at this time. Sedan chairs are mostly carried by four people, sometimes replaced by two people, or set off firecrackers with umbrellas before and after. When the bride gets off the sedan chair and the groom gets off the sedan chair, there will be some related folk rituals. But the specific situation varies from region to region. On the way to my parents' house, there can't be an empty person in the sedan chair, but a boy named sedan chair.

Traditionally, only newly married women can sit in sedan chairs, and widows are most likely to tie some colored cloth or paper to ordinary children, which is called colored sedan chairs. As for concubinage, some places can take a sedan chair, and some places can't take a sedan chair or other sedan chairs. But generally speaking, in the old society, women only took a sedan chair once at most, so it was a very special experience.

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Wedding sedan chair picture

Fourth, the sedan chair line

There are sedan chairs or sedan chairs everywhere, which are rented with honor guards and bands. In general cities, there are three kinds of sedan chairs used for commercial leasing. One is the sacred sedan chair and the official sedan chair (or big sedan chair). The former is responsible for carrying statues and ancestral tablets, while the latter carries rich and powerful people, ranging from 4 to 8 people; Secondly, the small Tsing Yi sedan chair with bamboo structure is for ordinary people to walk instead of walking and two people to sedan chair; The third kind is sedan chair, which is used for folk weddings. Four people used to carry it. Because the sedan chair is heavy, it needs to be carried by someone else.

Car owners or car shops in market towns and villages are mainly car shops (or hi-sedan shops) that meet the needs of red weddings and happy events. There must be at least four bearers in the sedan chair rented by the sedan chair shop. If some people use six people, except four people in charge of the sedan chair, the other two people will hold umbrellas and set off firecrackers in front of the sedan chair. Pay attention to renting 16~20 people. Eight people are in charge of the sedan chair, and the rest are used for the lanterns in front of the sedan chair. The hexagonal palace lanterns in front and behind the sedan chair must be matched, and the rest are used to escort the needs of deacons such as gongs, melons and axes. The sedan chair also provides the bride with a rockhopper and a red headscarf on her head, a chardonnay quilt on her shoulders, three official scriptures and three official mirrors in her arms, a flowered skirt to cover secular clothes, clothes worn on her body, and the red carpet that the bride and groom step on when carrying dowry, choosing boxes and getting off the sedan chair.