Since the Song Dynasty, the main means of transportation for marriage is sedan chair, also known as sedan chair. The curtain of the sedan chair is made of red colored silk, embroidered with auspicious patterns such as rich flowers, phoenix sunrise and white picture, and decorated with gold and silver, which sets off a lively and festive atmosphere. On the wedding day, the groom rode a horse with a flower bridge to the woman's house to celebrate the wedding. When he goes, he can't take an empty sedan chair. There will be a little boy sitting in it, commonly known as a sedan chair. After arriving at the woman's house, the bride got into a sedan chair, carried it to the man's house, entered through the main entrance, and then performed a ceremony of worshipping heaven and earth.

A series of red tape ceremonies such as getting on the sedan chair, getting off the sedan chair, drinking the sedan chair, staying with family members, looking over the mirror, pressing the street (bumping into the sedan chair) and getting off the sedan chair are all derived from the bride's sedan chair. In the film Red Sorghum directed by Zhang Yimou, there is a sedan chair scene: the heroine gets married, and four sedan chairs carry her from her mother's family to her husband's family. When she arrives in the sorghum field, she begins to turn over the sedan chair.

In ancient times, only the wife could enter from the main entrance in a sedan chair, and the rest of the concubines entered from the side door, which was also a symbol of status. And you can only sit in a sedan chair once in your life, which is very precious.