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Chapter 18: The State Administration of Cultural Heritage’s concern?There is hope for the renovation of Xuankong Temple!

Chapter 18: The State Administration of Cultural Heritage’s concern?There is hope for the renovation of Xuankong Temple!

On the other side, in DT City, Shanxi Province, there are Cuiping Peak cliffs on the west side of Jinlong Gorge in Hengshan Mountain.

On a temple that is almost hanging on a cliff, a plaque hangs impressively——

"Xuankong Temple".

At this moment, in a wing of the Xuankong Temple, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes stared at the high-precision three-dimensional model of the Xuankong Temple on the computer for a long time.

It wasn't until his eyes became dull that the middle-aged man looked away, with a sad look on his face, and let out a long sigh.

"Without a thorough study of the mortise and tenon structure, the repair work cannot be started!"

The middle-aged man is called Li Haiyang, and he is the leader of the team sent by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to repair the Hanging Temple.

The Hanging Temple under his feet was built in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, more than 500 years ago.

It is said that the Taoist Master of the Northern Wei Dynasty left a legacy before his death, which was to build a temple in the sky that "reaches the sky above and floats below".

Afterwards, countless disciples went through untold hardships to build this temple on the mountain wall.

It is suspended about 50 meters above the ground. On both sides of the temple are cliffs that stand more than 100 meters upright, supported only by dozens of wooden pillars.

It looks like it is hanging in the air, hence the name "Xuankong Temple".

This temple is not only the only existing temple in China that integrates Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, it has also been listed by Time as one of the top ten most endangered buildings in the world.

Countless people marvel at why the temple is embedded in the cliff and does not collapse, and all of this is thanks to——

The mortise and tenon structure of the Hanging Temple.

The Hanging Temple uses a large number of mortise and tenon structures, supported by wooden pillars that go deep into the mountain, so that the temple and the mountain are firmly integrated and will not collapse even in the event of a small earthquake.

However, no matter how glorious history is, it will eventually perish one day.

As the mortise and tenon technique was lost due to the war, very little information is left. No matter how carefully the past hosts and local people take care of it, it still cannot withstand the erosion of thousands of years.

In order to preserve this kind of building with the hard work and sweat of countless ancestors, Xuankong Temple had to entrust the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to carry out repairs.

But without mortise and tenon technology, how could it be possible to restore the style to the style of thousands of years ago?
As the leader of the Xuankong Temple repair team, Li Haiyang thought that the repaired Xuankong Temple might not be able to return to its original appearance. The more he thought about it, the more he felt like an eternal sinner.

Just as he sighed, urgent footsteps came from outside.

Soon, a man in his early twenties broke into the room, breathing heavily and holding up his mobile phone. His face was full of disbelief and disbelief.

"Teacher Li, I found this while scrolling through Douyin!"

Looking at the young members of the repair team in front of him, Li Haiyang adjusted his heavy mood and asked slowly, "Xiao Wang, what's wrong?"

Seeing Xiao Wang in front of him, he took out his mobile phone and shouted excitedly, "Mortise and tenon technology."

"What?" Li Haiyang was still a little confused and reached out to take the phone.

After just a brief glance, his originally irritable face suddenly became troubled.

There was a clear light in his eyes.

"This……"

Li Haiyang's heart suddenly trembled.

If he read it correctly, the young man on the screen is using a mortise and tenon structure, right? !

Who is he? !

A huge question suddenly appeared in Li Haiyang's mind.

Unable to help swallowing, Li Haiyang moved closer to the phone screen, and his eyes quickly fell on the wood in the video's hand.

As he watched, his eyes began to fill with disbelief.You should know that he was originally majoring in architecture. Not only did he study the lost mortise and tenon structure for his master's degree, but even the construction projects he participated in after working were all related to the direction of mortise and tenon.

After more than ten years of continuous cultivation, he has long been familiar with mortise and tenon structures that combine two or three wooden parts, such as right-angle mortise rivets, notch mortise rivets, and dovetail mortise and tenon joints.

In other words, he is almost one of the pioneers in the country who understands the mortise and tenon structure best.

If not, he would not have been assigned by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to be responsible for the construction project of repairing the Hanging Temple.

But in the video, how come the incisions made by Ye Xuan look like the three-box mortise and tenon structure that he studied in depth some time ago?
"I don't believe there is anyone in the world who understands mortise and tenon structure better than me..."

While muttering to himself, Li Haiyang became more and more immersed in the live broadcast in front of him.

on the live screen.

Ye Xuan arranged and marked the tenons on the wood with different widths in sequence, and then used a saw to cut out the appropriate tenons one by one.

After the tenon was finished, he took the end of the tenon and drew the falcon outline on the tongue and groove port.

The making of mortise and tenon joints is a meticulous job.

In addition to requiring a high degree of concentration, the entire process also requires extreme caution.

Any irregularities in the surface will affect the shape and quality of the tongue and groove.

The slightest error will either cause the tenon groove to be too wide or too narrow, which will result in the inability to form a complete fit with the tenon.

However, for Ye Xuan, who has the title of little construction expert, all this is simply a piece of cake.

He picked up the hand saw and cut the wood along the contour line. Before long, Ye Xuan used a chisel to start removing the unnecessary wood within the contour line.

Afterwards, Ye Xuan continued to use the file to smooth the surface of the wood.

After filing to a certain level, he skillfully picked up the chisel and dug a small hole in the wood, and then used a plane to gradually smooth the edges of the hole.

This action is repeated several times until the shape and size of the tongue and groove meet the requirements.

At the end, Ye Xuan picked up the sandpaper prepared in advance and polished the surface of the tongue and groove to make it smooth and without sharp corners.

Netizens in the live broadcast room may not see the technical difficulty.

But Li Haiyang, who had extraordinary eyesight, looked at the tongue and groove in front of him, and his eyes were already flashing.

That's right!

This is clearly the most proficient three-box mortise and tenon structure he has mastered so far!
This is already the ceiling of his current research on the structure of Falcon Mao, and was it just used by the young man in front of him? !
Stunned, Li Haiyang saw Ye Xuan suddenly grinding new mortise and tenon grooves.

As soon as the unfamiliar mortise and tenon structure appeared, Li Haiyang's eyes became more and more curious.

Gradually, a shocking conjecture suddenly appeared in my mind.

The grooves of the four pieces of wood in front of him seem to be integrated into one piece. Could it be that Ye Xuan wants to connect these four grooves together with a mortise and tenon structure? !

Doesn't that mean that the young man in front of me has mastered the mortise and tenon structure of a four-wooden piece assembly? !

Staring at the live broadcast room, Li Haiyang's chest was filled with tension and shock.

Li Haiyang's eyes were filled with joy as he watched the four wooden pieces of mortise and tenon that he had never seen before gradually take shape.

"Perfect! It's perfect!"

After a long time, Li Haiyang turned around and looked at Xiao Wang just now, his tone even more urgent.

"Can you contact this young man?"

He saw hope in the young boy in front of him!
He saw the hope of repairing the Hanging Temple!

(End of this chapter)