Tenon and mortise technology is better than nails. What is the reason?

First of all, tenon-mortise structure is a combination of tenon and mortise, which is a clever combination of more and less, high and low, long and short pieces of wood. This combination can effectively limit the distortion between wooden pieces in all directions. For example, if nails are used to make a T-shaped combination of two wooden roofs, the vertical roof and the horizontal roof are easy to distort and change their angles, but tenons and mortises will not distort. In ancient times when there were no machinery and nails, the furniture made by our ancestors could be used for decades or even hundreds of years, which incorporated a high degree of wisdom and skills, that is, tenon-mortise structure. The tenon-mortise structure does not use nails, and there are many combinations, which are firm and beautiful.

I didn't expect Sun Mao, the mortise and tenon furniture. When I was a child, there was no decent furniture at home, so there were many wooden flatbeds for farming, which were also made by carpenters with good craftsmanship in the village. It took a long time, too. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, the furniture at home was basically tenon-mortise structure, which was durable. It can be seen that the craftsmen at that time were exquisite! For example: wooden bed, orange, cabinet, wardrobe, windmill, dining table ...

When I was in my hometown, a woodworking group was organized in the brigade, with more than a dozen people. I happened to have a relative there, so I went to play when I was free. There are a lot of wood shavings in the woodworking group, which are used by carpenters to make fires, boil water, boil glue and keep warm in winter. Tenon-mortise structure is the main technology for carpenters in China to make furniture. It can make good use of the properties of wood itself and make furniture durable. For example, square table plush chair, round-backed chair arhat bed. Wait a minute. The tenon-mortise structure is not only used in daily furniture, but also in many wooden buildings. For example, the common cornice bucket arch.

Furniture with tenon and mortise structure is more durable than furniture connected with nails. This combination can effectively limit the distortion between wooden pieces in all directions.