Chinanews.com, Linqing, Shandong, January 4th (Lv Yanyao Xiaonan) The aftermath of the World Cup has not yet faded. Recently, "Grandpa Amu" in Linqing City, Shandong Province also made another appearance with a mortise and tenon football made of 32 wooden boards. circle, showing a different kind of "Chinese Kung Fu" to netizens at home and abroad with traditional woodworking skills.

　　Material selection, cutting, planing, grinding... After several times of chiseling and grinding, a football spliced ​​by 12 pentagonal and 20 hexagonal planks was born.

The football fits perfectly, without a nail or any other metal components.

　　"This is Kung Fu football, and the masters are among the people!" "How to ensure that the surface of each small piece of wood has the same curvature?" It won the praise and praise of netizens, and some netizens even asked "do you accept apprentices" online.

　　Wang Baocheng, the son of "Grandpa Amu", said that when the Qatar World Cup kicked off this year, he and his father wondered whether they could make a football with mortise and tenon joints to show off the traditional Chinese tenon and tenon technique.

　　Wang Baocheng said that it is actually very difficult to splice wooden spheres with a mortise and tenon structure. The size, proportion and radian of each wooden board must be precisely calculated to ensure a tight fit.

There are 32 boards, each of which needs to be polished for more than 2 hours.

The picture shows "Grandpa Amu" showing the finished football to his grandson.

Photo provided by the interviewee

　　Wang Baocheng said that it took about 8 days from conception, material selection to final completion of this exquisite mortise and tenon football, and the production process was condensed in less than 5 minutes of video.

In the end, a wooden football that could almost look like a real one was placed on the table. Wang Baocheng's 5-year-old son looked at the football made by his grandfather with curious eyes, then picked up the football, put it on the ground and kicked it.

"My son's first reaction was to go up and play. He is very interested in this mortise and tenon football." Wang Baocheng said.

　　This is not the first time "Grandpa Amu" has been out of the circle.

In 2017, after Wang Baocheng posted his father's process of making Luban stools on the Internet, the video quickly spread and caused heated discussions among netizens; in 2020, he assembled a miniature version of the China Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo with a mortise and tenon structure, which attracted widespread attention; He also built a wooden arch bridge across streams without using a nail or a drop of glue... His exquisite traditional skills have attracted the attention and admiration of netizens at home and abroad, and "Grandpa Amu" has been hailed as "Contemporary Luban" by netizens.

　　Wang Baocheng introduced that "Grandpa Amu" grows crops when he is busy with farming and works as a carpenter in his spare time.

At present, "Grandpa Amu" has more than 4 million fans on major short video platforms in China.

The video of "Grandpa Amu" will be constantly updated, so that the traditional Chinese mortise and tenon technique can be spread farther and wider through the Internet.

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