Decolling the wisdom of the ancients depends on IQ

Since ancient times, toys and games have been an indispensable part of people's lives. They are not only partners of childhood life, but also the way to regulate life and relieve stress. In the Shanghai Guanfu Museum's "Wisdom · Fun -Ancient Chinese toy Show" annual special exhibition, in addition to the more pure puzzle toys such as Qiqiao Board, Puzzle Board, and Jiulun Ring It is the exquisite design and practical items with an organ, and the box box is the representative of it.

In the figure below, the bag box is set up to be opened and down. It is special in material use, which is a clever combination of Huanghuali and rosewood. The craftsman must first make the framework of the rosewood board, and then use the land -reducing process to make the eight positions of the corners be lower than the plane, and then put the yellow rhodalistan board on the reduction of the ground. It can be called the innovative utilization of the "sticking skin" process.

It uses the paddling to pursue the color contrast of different wood, and it is also the biggest highlight of the shape design. The ancients understood the performance of rosewood very early. If they were polished well, they could make silk -like charming luster. Therefore, this bag is like a black silk box wrapped in a black pear box, which is clearly contrast, so it is called "bag box". This approach can be described as ingenious. At the same time, it is impossible to think about it: When the craftsman completed this masterpiece, did you have a little bit of "raising the knife, the four, and being full of ambitions" after the craftsmanship?

Qing Dynasty Huanghuali rosewood baggage box

Guanfu Museum Collection

In addition to the high value that makes people dizzy, it has a mystery in structure. It can be seen from the side, the bag box has two layers of drawers. Open the top cover of the box, you will find that the upper drawer is divided into three grids, and there is a small hole (the part in the middle of the figure below) at the bottom, and a tip of a T -shaped head, a slightly thickened small insertion. If you put the plug -in in the hole, the lower drawings will be stuck and cannot be pulled out; only when the insertion is removed can the lower drawer be opened.

Qing Dynasty Huanghuali rosewood baggage box

Guanfu Museum Collection

The box box can be used to store private items, or important documents such as ledger and contracts. One way to lock it is to use metal locks and locks. However, the additional metal parts on the wooden box will greatly increase the cost. For example, the Huanghuali official leather box in the picture below, the copper surface of the door in front of the door, and the copper hand on both sides, you need to be equipped with an additional lock. safe to use. Therefore, the clever craftsman will come up with a wonderful way: the design agency, that is, use the structure of the wooden parts to "lock" the box. In this way, the cost can be reduced, and the two will avoid the preparation of the preparation of the lock or in the event of a key to find the key.

Huanghuali official leather box in the Ming Dynasty

Guanfu Museum Collection

There is also a more common organ box box. The key to opening it is: gravity hammer. The gravity hammer is a small wooden block, narrowed and width, light and down, and is nailed to the side wall of the box. It can rotate with the tilt of the box, and due to gravity, it always maintains the direction and the ground vertical.

When the box is flat, the top of the gravity hammer is stuck on the back of the lid back and locks the box. If the box is tilted, the gravity hammer will rotate out of the original position. If the lid is not hindered, it can naturally be opened. It is really simple and clever design.

Figure: Gravity Hammer (has been circled)

Turn with the box tilting

What you know is the order box of the order steps, which is to slide and pull the box with a series of fixed steps to open the box and restore it. On the surface, the appearance of the box is very smooth, and there seems to be no part -time components, but attentive people always find that some boards can move. Open these boxes, as long as the sectors on the surface and falling on the surface are as good as a certain order, the steps are from simple steps to more than a hundred steps.

Many institutions box and boxes are specially customized, and their organs are different. So opening a box does not mean to open other things. On the surface, they are not the same as ordinary boxes, but they need to understand and appreciate them in order to take out the things that seem to be available in it. All kinds of institutions box boxes allow today's people to experience endless ingenuity and fun. In the final analysis, they are all masterpieces that artisans focus on polishing and correspondingly.

Pu Songling once said: "Sexual idiots are condensed. People with infatuation are valuable, because they can find things that have stabilized themselves, devote themselves, and have fun. It seems that the children are facing the favorite toys, and there are games that are fascinated. They have a purely fully devoted happiness.

This spring also makes us understand more. It turns out that the most unusual life, in fact, is the most cherished. May you also accumulate energy from ordinary life and play, and look forward to meeting you at an early date with you at the "Intellectual and Fun -Ancient China Toys Exhibition".

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