What is the use of Kongmingsuo except as a toy in history or life?

Kongmingsuo is an intangible cultural heritage. Without Kongmingsuo, there would be no mortise and tenon!

Without mortise and tenon, there would be no more than 90% ancient buildings in China, and mortise and tenon structure has been fully used in modern structure!

Kongmingsuo's skill was listed as a provincial intangible cultural heritage in Zhejiang Province on 20 17. This is a traditional folk educational toy. With tenon-mortise structure, the wooden strips can be spliced together without nails, ropes and adhesives. Seemingly simple, it actually contains infinite mystery.

Kongmingsuo is also called Lubansuo, and the folks call it Liuzisuo, Stubborn, Stubborn, Stubborn and so on.

It is also called China's four classic educational toys with Jiuhuanhuan, Huarong Road and Tangram.

Legend has it that in the early Warring States period, Lu Ban made a toy out of six pieces of wood and asked his son to take it apart to test his intelligence. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang used Luban Lock as a toy for soldiers to relax.

Zhuge Liang's descendants made Luban locks for sale. In order to raise awareness and promote sales, they renamed Luban Lock as Kongming Lock.

Kongmingsuo is a kind of wood structure, which uses only six pieces of wood, without nails, ropes and adhesives, and is firmly combined by means of three-dimensional concave-convex bite (that is, tenon-mortise structure).

Kongmingsuo was originally a wooden structure, which can be made of hard miscellaneous wood and cork. Hard miscellaneous wood is hard, wear-resistant and long-lived.

Cork is easy to process and can be used for viewing.

It is a traditional fixed connector for ancient industrial and wooden buildings in China.

Especially the ancient buildings in China, it can be said that there would be no mortise and tenon structure without Kongmingsuo, which is the essence of ancient buildings.

For example, the turret of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Hall of Praying for the New Year in the Temple of Heaven, and the 63-meter-high Yingxian Wooden Pagoda are all examples of the application of Kongmingsuo.

Kongmingsuo seems simple, but it is infinite.

And as a toy, it has many types, different shapes and internal structures.

According to the tenon-mortise structure, many other difficult or decorative types are derived from the standard Kongmingsuo, which are complex and changeable.

There are dozens of common locks, such as: spherical lock, prismatic lock, square lock, pineapple shape, animal shape, treasure chest shape, pagoda shape, ancient building shape, cross shape, double cross shape and so on.

The most traditional Kongmingsuo has 64 different tenon-mortise structures, which are divided into 8 groups according to the degree of difficulty, with 8 in each group. The higher the difficulty, the higher the difficulty.

The 55-year-old Zhuge Wencang is a descendant of Zhu Gekongming's 5/kloc-0 generation and a famous non-genetic inheritor of Kongming Suo's production.

He has been a Kongmingsuo for more than 20 years, and this skill has already been integrated into his life.

In 20 10, Shanghai hosted the World Expo. At that time, many people were amazed at the creative modeling of China Pavilion, and Zhuge Wencang was no exception.

Thinking of the structural similarities between Kongmingsuo and China Pavilion, he tried to build a model of the China Pavilion of the World Expo with Kongmingsuo's manufacturing technology.

Finally, it took Zhuge Wencang two months to assemble a "China Pavilion" with a size of 1 18 pieces of wood with different lengths.

It is said that this model is full of mortise and tenon structure, without a nail.

And this exquisite work has now become the treasure of his town shop.

"Traditional skills cannot be lost." For this belief, Zhuge Wencang studied 64 different tenon-mortise structures. According to the degree of difficulty, based on the eight diagrams of stem, exchange, separation, shock, fumigation, hurdle, root and Kun, they were divided into 8 groups with 8 in each group.

In addition, he also developed dozens of varieties of Kongming locks, such as Innovation Lock, Yuanyang Lock, Four Seasons Wealth Lock, Middle Lock, Treasure Lock, Jieyi Lock, Jiugong Bagua Lock, Three-story Mingta Lock, Oriental Pearl Lock, Plum Blossom Lock and Children's Padlock.