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When you wander in the Hall of Ancient Science and Technology Museum in China may find that when the ancient Chinese educational toys next to the always enthusiastic audience gathered a lot of the mystery in the study, the lock is one of the most interesting Luban educational puzzle lock.
Legend of the Spring and Autumn era craftsman Lu Lu Ban To test whether the wise son, with six strips of wood can make a fight detachable toy , called his son apart. Son of a busy night, and finally apart. This puzzle toys is called descendants to lock Luban . Luban locks also known as Kong Ming locks , do not sap , six sub-together party , where Monet , difficult people wood and so on. It originated in ancient Chinese architecture in the first of the tenon joint structure.

The three-dimensional in the fight inside the convex part of the toy inserted engagement , very clever. More Luban wooden lock toys, shape and internal structure vary, generally easy to dismantle hard to install. Assembly requires careful observation, careful thinking, analysis of its internal structure.

Anping Li Tie pier with hundreds of farmers lock Lubanga made ​​the "million bite Tower" Brackets.

In the absence of nails, rope, cement the case, you can six wooden cross fixed together? This spatial imagination is a great challenge. Two thousand years ago, Lu Ban, a method invented by way of a bite of wood into three groups perpendicular to a fixed, six strips of wood are labeled the six arts, middle short, seem to lack consistency to cross double cross latch composition. It sounds simple, but difficult to design very high, only the latch groove by placing the different wood, patchwork, Trench's slightly less microleakage may affect the degree of structural stability, the need to latch block sizes combination of precision can be successfully placed, and as long as deprived of a wood, the joints of the wood that is falling apart. The outside is to match exactly the cross cube, brains can be disassembled, and put on is not so easy.

Luban lock is actually a toy involved in solid geometry. By geometric partitioning, can form a variety of locking. Toy Fair witnessed the classical mathematical distant civilization in ancient China, but also for modern people to pass the knowledge and fun. But math is all around us, hidden in the game to mathematics. By Luban lock, allow us to appreciate the mysteries of science and fun, but also to learn some scientific knowledge and methods. Classical Chinese toys profound, because spread of Chinese and foreign, are numerous and broad-hi, because civilized elegance, elegant, deep and profound mathematical background. Such toys with its development of intelligence, the function of enlightenment thought to play a unique role. Lubanga by the lock can unlock the ancient wisdom of our experience, do not let the wealth of the ancients left us in the hands of our generation lost ah.