What materials are the dragon chairs in the Forbidden City in Beijing made of? People who have sat there know that Shu is uncomfortable!
The Forbidden City is a general term, not only the Forbidden City in Beijing, but also many places. Just like the Imperial Palace in Shenyang, this Forbidden City is the second complete palace that exists, so it is more precious, and there are two dragon chairs in this palace that are exquisitely crafted.
But this time it is not Shenyang's but Beijing's dragon chair.
The main symbol of the Chinese emperor is that he is the true dragon tianzi, so their asset is also called the dragon chair.
What experience did that dragon chair in Beijing have?
The emperor's shadow is called the dragon chair, but he has his own name, and he is also very high-end and atmospheric, that is, the xiu (xiu) golden carved dragon wooden chair.
The dragon chair is naturally very different from the ordinary seat, just like the four hand,000 golden dragons without carving.
This kind of dragon chair is a dragon chair in the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, and there is actually a twisted story about this dragon chair.
Yuan Shikai everyone knows that he wants to be emperor, so he stole the fruits of the victory of the Xinhai Revolution and unfortunately became dissatisfied for a hundred days, but he disrupted all the old decorations in the Taihe Palace, completely according to his own preferences in the transformation of the palace, many things have been destroyed.
A lot of things were thrown away, including this dragon chair, which was replaced by a Western-style chair.
The appearance of the Forbidden City that everyone sees now is still restored by experts.
The dragon chair that had been thrown away was already mutilated when it was found. Later, it took three years for him to be repaired by a series of skilled craftsmen.
The "dragon" has always been a symbol of China, and the emperor believes that he is the son of heaven, and naturally there is a symbol of being pitied by the heavens, that is, the dragon.
Originally, we did not use chairs, and we always sat on the floor until the Sui and Tang Dynasties, when they began to become popular.
The earliest dragon chair was where Li Shimin sat, and he relied on the shape of the dragon to carve the armrests of the chair and the back of the chair, which is a symbol of status.
The dragon chair in the TV series looks golden, like it is made of gold, but it is not, there is not so much gold.
However, the materials used are not cheap, and they are made of three kinds of woods: small-leaf rosewood, golden silk nan wood, and birch. Any of these woods are a thousand gold things.
The small-leaf rosewood is high in price because it is rare, and it can be said that it is far more than gold.
The main color of the golden silk nan wood is very good, and there are golden grains under the light, which is the best for carving the dragon shape.
Although the dragon chair looks grand, it is not easy to sit at all.
Let's not say that this is a status symbol, if ordinary people dare to carry something with a dragon, it is a capital offense.
Whoever is in this chair is the Son of Heaven.
When many people want to seek power and usurp the throne, they will say that they want the dragon chair, but in fact, in some ways, it is also linked to the identity of the emperor.
Therefore, it is the emperor who sits on the dragon chair, and the status of this chair cannot be underestimated.
But to say that it is comfortable is certainly impossible to say, when the emperor is such a stressful thing, the mental pressure alone can easily crush people.
And the last generation of emperors also said that this emperor is not easy to do.