Man makes preserving heritage a joint effort
(WorldNews China)

Gansu woodworker passes the art of traditional mortise and tenon joints to his son Woodworker Sun Gang has spent most of his life learning and preserving the traditional mortise and tenon technique widely found in ancient Chinese buildings and furniture. Some old buildings contained no nails, and instead used interlocking joints to connect pieces of wood, with the earliest example of a mortise and tenon structure dating back 7,000 years to the Hemudu culture in what is now Zhejiang province. `The mortise and tenon structure is our ancestors` great wisdom,` said Sun, 52. Born in a village in Gansu province, Sun dropped out of primary school after just three years. His father taught him...