When did tenon and mortise technology rise? And spread it. What about now?

The tenon and mortise technology rose very early. Six or seven thousand years ago, Hemudu people began to use tenons and mortises to build houses, mainly dry-column buildings. The preservation of classical furniture, architecture and traditional handicrafts is the reason why mortise and tenon technology has been handed down.

Tenon-mortise structure refers to the connection technology that uses concave-convex combination on two wooden components, without nails and adhesives, so that the concave part and the convex part are meshed with each other, thus making the structure of buildings, furniture and other objects stable. The structure is extremely stable and environment-friendly, and can play a good role in fixing and stabilizing ancient buildings and furniture. At the same time, it can provide good bearing capacity. In this structure, the convex part is called tenon and the concave part is called mortise.

Tenon and mortise technology rose from Hemudu period, matured in Han Dynasty, and was widely used in ancient buildings.

For example, the wooden tower in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The three largest chita in the world? All the towers are made of wood, and the whole tower is made of wood, and a large number of bucket arches are used. Most of the bucket arches are riveted without nails, and a lot of mortise and tenon technology is used in them, which has a very good shock absorption effect. In addition, although the hanging temple in Datong, Shanxi Province has gone through thousands of years, it has adopted a large number of mortise and tenon structures and skillfully combined mortise and tenon with beams. Compared with the stone buildings in the west, the wooden structure in the east is light and earthquake-resistant, which not only has good humanistic characteristics, but also uses a lot of mortise and tenon technology and other structures.

These ancient buildings are well preserved, which provides a good reference for the progress and research of modern mortise and tenon technology.

The tenon and mortise technology can be spread to this day, except for ancient buildings, and it can not be separated from the application in furniture. For example, tenon-mortise structure was widely used in Ming dynasty furniture. This unique tenon-mortise structure can effectively connect bending materials and be used in round-backed chairs. On the official hat chair, tenons and mortises are often used at the armrests and legs. Because Ming-style furniture has artistic characteristics such as generous modeling, moderate proportion and simple outline, it is often applicable in modern homes, and the spread of this tenon-mortise structure also provides reference.