What does "Mortise and Tenon" bring you to think about the culture and conservation of ancient architecture?

Over the years, the culture of ancient architecture has made mortise and tenon stunning for thousands of years. Mortise and tenon, the main structural method of ancient Chinese architecture, furniture and other instruments, is a way of connecting two members by combining concave and convex parts. It is a traditional carpentry craft full of Chinese wisdom, and has even been called the soul of China's traditional furniture craft. As a necessary skill for ancient craftsmen, the level of craftsmanship can be clearly reflected through the structure of mortise and tenon. If the mortise and tenon is used properly, the two pieces of wood structure can be tightly fastened between the degree of seamlessness. In ancient times, the whole set of furniture and even the whole house without the use of a nail, but can be used for hundreds or even thousands of years, in the history of human light manufacturing is called a miracle. These are mortise and tenon work. Therefore, mortise and tenon craft is comparable to the Chinese national treasure of Peking Opera, not only is the appearance of exquisite aesthetic, and follow the principle of mechanics, practicality is very strong, not easy to rust and easy to disassemble. Tongue and groove technology is also full of ancient Chinese wisdom, a yin and a yang, a surplus and a loss, complementary **** born, indispensable. It is because of the cultural heritage of ancient architecture, making mortise and tenon stunning millennium.

With the development of domestic modernization and urbanization, mortise and tenon slowly fade out of our vision. In the absence of metal screws and adhesives in ancient times, craftsmen gave full play to their ingenuity to build complex buildings and furniture through a variety of ingenious mortise and tenon structures. However, this time-consuming and labor-intensive process is now difficult to meet the demands of mass production, so mortise and tenon construction has gradually faded out of our vision. With the development of technology, the soul of furniture mortise and tenon construction has long been forgotten, replaced by nails and glue in the stage of large-scale industrial production, because the cost compression of the benefits gained is more attractive. Especially with the progress of modern mechanical production and the pursuit of efficiency, more and more mortise and tenon craft is gradually being abandoned. Looking at the movie "Mortise and Tenon" in the context of all this, it becomes even clearer that it is invaluable. In the movie, the protagonist Chen Wenyuan, an engineer of ancient building restoration, accidentally meets his father Chen Shoujia at a scenic site. It turns out that the architectural fragments carried along the long mountain road are the Chen Family Ancestral Hall, the family temple of the Chen family, and his father, Chen Shoujia, who could not let go of the ancestral craft of wood carving for the family ancestral hall, followed the family ancestral hall that had been purchased to the mountainous areas. Chen Shoujun's following of this kind is in fact not to want the mortise and tenon to fade out of his vision, because such a fade out may mean a loss or even a break.

The movie "Mortise and Tenon" calls for the protection and transmission of traditional culture, which must first touch the soul of modern people. Chinese ancient architectural culture is in an awkward position in the modern domestic construction market. First of all, the traditional Chinese civil residential buildings, and modern people's way of life and the functional requirements of the residence has a relatively large contradiction. Secondly, its structural form is mainly wood structure, and there are inherent deficiencies in building materials and construction technology. From the construction of cities all over China, there is a lack of consideration of folklore and local architectural styles in the design of new buildings, which are basically replicas of Western architectural culture. China's thousands of years of traditional architectural culture is really in danger of being lost. At the same time, the knowledge of traditional Chinese mortise and tenon construction has been passed down by Japan for a long time, and has even become a masterpiece of Western craftsmanship. This is why director Gan Xiao Er and hope that the audience will patiently watch this feature film and think about the cultural disconnect that is currently prevalent in China. If the souls of modern people are not touched, then it is impossible to think too much or even take concrete action.

Fortunately, the reality is that there is always a group of people with a unique sentiment, with the invisible power to inspire more people to move forward, in pursuit of the soul of the ancient architecture. in May 2015, the Chinese ****production party network and ****production party members of the WeChat public number released an article titled "the soul of China's ancient architecture - mortise and tenon structure , which triggered the attention of a considerable portion of netizens, the article, through 33 kinds of mortise and tenon models, endeavored to make everyone pick up the soul that has been forgotten, and feel together the traditional architectural culture that has been inherited by China for thousands of years. Today the introduction of the movie "mortise and tenon" and the support of netizens, let us see more people began to think, began to pursue the soul of ancient architecture. In fact, the director Gan Xiaoji expressed is a unique sentiment, a kind of family sentiment, just express a different angle, different entry point, we look forward to through this movie, can let the stunning millennium mortise and tenon touch your soul and mine.