In ancient China, the emperor lived in the palace. When he went to court, he was also in front of the palace. The emperor sat on the dragon chair with ministers standing on both sides, which reflected the emperor's supreme majesty. Although the dragon chair looks magnificent, his design has a lot of intentions, which makes the emperor very helpless.
The first is the dragon chair design. The dragon is a symbolic emperor. In ancient China, the clothes and chopsticks used by emperors were all related to dragons, and the dragon chair was also painted with dragon patterns. There are several complete dragons on the backrest and seat of the dragon chair. As the embodiment of dragons, sitting on them will show the emperor's supreme status. Therefore, in the court, the emperor must sit on the dragon chair and no one else is allowed to do it, otherwise it would be tantamount to seeking power and usurping the throne. Just like the ancient emperor wore a dragon robe and the prince wore an embroidered robe. Only the emperor can wear dragons.
Followed by the ups and downs of the pattern. The dragons on the dragon chair are lifelike, but they are all carefully built by many craftsmen and look very magnificent. Moreover, these patterns are three-dimensional, engraved on the dragon chair like relief, with protrusions. When the emperor sits in the dragon chair in the court, he must stand up straight, because there are many ups and downs in the dragon chair. If he doesn't sit up straight, he will get hurt. Therefore, at the beginning of the design, the dragon chair was originally intended to enable the emperor to treat the early dynasties with a correct attitude, treat ministers seriously and establish majesty.
Then the position of the dragon chair. The early dynasties were all in the main hall, and the dragon chairs were placed on many stairs. The emperor went in from behind and sat in the dragon chair, looking down at the ministers from a high place. Ministers bowed their heads when telling things to the emperor, so that the emperor could have a panoramic view of the expressions of other ministers in the dragon chair, and also avoided the ministers from making some small moves in the early dynasty. It can be said that the emperor who just started designing the dragon chair was very clever.
Finally, the material of the dragon chair. This is a problem that many people are very concerned about. Some people think that the dragon chair, as a symbol of the emperor, should be very noble, and the emperor, as the ruler of the whole world, will certainly make his own dragon chair very beautiful.
However, the dragon chair is not as real as people think, but mostly made of brass, which is more convenient to carve and not easy to deform. The outermost layer of the dragon chair is plated with gold to ensure that the dragon chair looks gorgeous.