Ruban locks types

Types of Luban locks include:Big and small Kongming locks, Four Seasons locks, Sisters' balls, Hexagonal locks, Fourteen Elder locks, Small pineapples, Kongming chain locks, Twelve square locks, Square locks (square corner Luban balls), Twenty-four locks (divided into A and B categories), Eighteen hooks locks, Thirty-three knots (big pineapples), Thirty-eight knots.

Six combinations are common, followed by nine. Depending on the shape of the mortise, it can be varied. For example, if you choose some of the nine locks, you can complete the "seven-star knot" and the "eight-point clasp".

Lu Ban locks origin:

Lu Ban locks, also known as "gossip locks", "Kongming locks", about its origin there are different opinions. One theory is that it is the Spring and Autumn Period carpenter ancestor Lu Ban created. According to folklore, Lu Ban in order to test his son's hands, invented a toy, this toy is made of six pieces of wood with a groove in the middle of the case of no external force to put together, thus forming the original Lu Ban lock.

There is also a theory that Zhuge Liang created it based on the principles inherent in the Bagua metaphysics of the Three Kingdoms period. Now there is no way to prove the real inventor of the Lu Ban lock, but there is no doubt that it is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient craftsmen and the carrier of traditional Chinese culture.