How did Grandpa A Mu get so hot? What made him famous?

Recently, a 63-year-old grandfather named A Mu became popular in overseas media. With more than 50 years of skillful woodworking skills, he can turn ordinary wood into exquisite handicrafts without a nail or a drop of glue. These ingenious works make people shine. Showing the world the traditional mortise and tenon technology of China is also popular for this purpose.

Grandpa A Mu was originally named Wang Dewen, a carpenter in Liaocheng, Shandong. When he lost his father at the age of nine, his thin shoulders shouldered the burden of his family. /kloc-at the age of 0/3, the only wooden pot cover in the family was broken. In the embarrassing economic situation, naturally he can't afford it, so he can't eat fully cooked sweet potatoes at home. It was this opportunity that he came up with the idea of learning carpentry in order to solve the difficulties at home. Since then, it has been 50 years, and time has wandered under the leadership of Grandpa A Mu, carved into pieces of art and cultivated into a whole? China Kung Fu? .

On 20 17, Wang Dewen and his wife moved to Guangxi to live with their daughter-in-law and grandchildren. My son A Cheng was doing short video business, focusing on rural life. The initial response of the video was not great. In order to help his son, Wang Dewen suggested making his own woodworking video, and his son agreed and decided to give it a try. He started uploading woodworking videos, and the number of broadcasts soared. ? I didn't expect everyone to be so interested in carpentry? The son said. The encouraged father and son decided to continue. At the beginning of 20 19, Acheng uploaded a video of Wang Dewen making a Luban stool. As a result, the broadcast volume exceeded 1 10,000 the next day, and then reached 4 million. From then on, Wang Dewen began to call himself? Grandpa A Mu? Master Table, Wooden Arch Bridge, Apple, Heart-shaped Lock, China Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo, etc. Made with traditional mortise and tenon technology, they have been sold one after another, and most of them cost three or four million yuan. In this way, grandpa A Mu became an instant hit.

In the first half of his life, Grandpa A Mu lived by his own craft, and the furniture and handicrafts he created played a practical role. In the latter half of his life, Grandpa A Mu was praised as "the traditional tenon-mortise technology in China" because of his research and original works on higher-level tenon-mortise technology. Contemporary Luban? .