A case of inheriting traditional mortise and tenon furniture

The tenon-mortise structure is a kind of structure commonly used by ancient people when building ancient wooden buildings. The ancients polished some materials such as bamboo, wood and stone into concave-convex structures, and then connected them with perfect seams. This is the tenon-mortise structure.

The master is in the folk! Uncle Shandong uses tenon-mortise structure to make football?

Recently, I saw such a news on the internet, which made people feel infinite. I have to say that the master is in the folk. What's going on here? Let me briefly introduce that the hero in the news is an uncle in Liaocheng, Shandong Province. The uncle made a special football by relying on the tenon-mortise structure between the wood without a nail, a drop of glue or a screw, which made all netizens who saw this news sincerely admire and open their eyes.

I believe that some elderly people should be familiar with the mortise and tenon structure. The tenon-mortise structure is a common structural form in Chinese traditional architecture. Mainly using the combination of concave and convex parts. The convex part is called tenon, and the concave part is called mortise. Buildings made of this tenon-mortise structure can be fixed without any nails.

Classification of tenons and mortises

In fact, there are dozens of mortise and tenon structures. If classified according to structural cooperation, it is generally divided into three categories. Grooved tenon and dovetail joint are one kind, which can be combined face to face, spliced on both sides or combined face to face. The other is double tenon and hook tenon. This tenon-mortise structure is mainly used for T-joints and corner joints of horizontal and vertical materials, and the third category is corner tenons and long tenons.

As an ancient carpenter, the use of tenon-mortise structure is a basic skill. In that era when there were no nails, the construction of buildings was often completed by tenon-mortise structure, which was the wisdom of our ancestors and the soul of Chinese classical architecture. Seeing such exquisite craftsmanship, I have to sigh how wonderful the traditional skills are, and I hope that a new generation of young people can learn and inherit this traditional skill.