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How to make 6 Kongming locks

Kongming lock-ancient Chinese architecture highly intelligent and civilized symbol. Kongming lock, rumored to be the Three Kingdoms period Zhuge Kongming according to the principles of gossip invented a toy, the original wooden structure, the appearance of a tightly sealed cross cube. Kongming lock is actually the ancient Chinese architectural "arch". In the ancient Chinese architecture, some of them are all made of wooden mortise and tenon structure, which can last for thousands of years without a single nail, and once the descendants take out one of the pieces, the whole building will fall to the ground with a bang, and can no longer be put together. Kongming lock looks simple, in fact, the inner mystery is infinite, do not know, it is difficult to complete the spell.  Kongming lock assembled by six wooden blocks, there are hundreds of structures, the use of different ways to open the lock and can be connected to countless Kongming lock together very clever fried, strong and incomparable! Kong Ming lock solution: Kong Ming lock is a traditional Chinese intellectual toys, rumored to be invented by the Three Kingdoms period of Zhuge Liang. This three-dimensional puzzle toy internal concave and convex part (i.e. mortise and tenon structure) engagement, very clever. Kongming locks are more toys with different shapes and internal constructions, which are generally easy to dismantle and difficult to assemble. Putting them together requires careful observation, thought and analysis of their internal structure. Can you cross-fasten six wooden bars together without nails and strings? More than two thousand years ago Kong Ming invented a way to fix three sets of wooden strips vertically intersecting each other with a kind of biting, this kind of biting is widely used in construction, and in the folk people made this invention of Kong Ming into a kind of toy--Kong Ming Lock. Original for the wooden structure, the appearance is a tightly sealed cross cube, the brains can be disassembled, mounted is not so easy. Unlock the Kongming lock to reproduce the ancient wisdom, do not let the ancients left us the wealth lost in the hands of our generation. This is just one of the legends. Another legend is: Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban, a craftsman in Lu State, in order to test whether his son is smart, with six wooden strips to make a toy that can be assembled and disassembled, and told his son to dismantle it. The son was busy all night and finally got it apart. This kind of toy is called Lu Ban Lock. In fact, this is just a legend. It originated from the first mortise and tenon structure in ancient Chinese architecture. Therefore, the Kongming lock is also known as the Lu Ban lock, do not boring stick, the six sons of the joint square, Monet, difficult to human wood. Kongming lock assembly method: this is one of the most common Kongming lock, in the absence of any prompting to assemble, it is indeed more difficult. As shown in the picture, put the six small pieces of the Kongming lock according to the number, the black part, indicating concave down. The face that faces upwards in this state is the face that fits together with the other small pieces after putting them together. For ease of expression, it is noted as the star face, and the end labeled with a star is noted as the star end. It is sufficient to build up the small pieces one by one in the order shown in the table. During the assembly shown, the direction of the Kongming lock position remains the same. With the star face facing a certain direction, this small block position is off-center in the opposite direction. There are two ways to put this together, note the numbering sequence. Sequence star face toward star end position Sequence star face toward star end position 1 up left 1 up left 2 right back 3 left back 3 back up 2 back up 4 front up or down 4 front up or down 5 left front 5 right back 6 down left or right 6 down left or right