

Ten Years Repairing a House, No One Asked; One Mortise and Tenon Sees the Human Heart
I'm an old carpenter. I spent ten years restoring the Zhao family's ancestral mansion. After Old Master Zhao passed away, the new head of the family accused me of taking up space in the rear courtyard's side room and falsely claimed that I had stolen old timber from the storeroom to sell for money. The day I was driven out of the Zhao household, I took nothing but a set of chisels with me. Three months later, the mortise-and-tenon joints in the ancestral mansion's main roof beam cracked, and not a single carpenter in the entire city dared to take the job. Those were Ming Dynasty mortise-and-tenon joints, and every ruined one meant one less piece of irreplaceable craftsmanship. After asking carpenter after carpenter for help, the Zhao family had no choice but to come looking for me. I returned to the Zhao residence with my set of chisels and stood in the main hall, saying, "Wood cannot speak, but it remembers who has touched it." I'll find the timber you falsely accused me of stealing.
Main characters: Li Mujiang
Also known as: 十年修宅无人问,一根榫卯见人心
十年修宅無人問,一根榫卯見人心 (30 集)
我是一名老木匠,替趙家修繕老宅整整十年。趙老爺子去世後,新家主嫌我佔著後院廂房,誣陷我偷了庫房裡的老木料拿去賣錢。我被趕出趙家的那天,只帶走了一套鑿子。三個月後,祖宅大梁的榫卯開裂,全城竟沒有一個木匠敢接這個活。那可是明代的榫卯,修壞一處就少一處,珍貴的傳統工藝再也無法挽回。趙家挨個求遍了木匠,最後只能來找我。我帶著…
我是一名老木匠,替趙家修繕老宅整整十年。趙老爺子去世後,新家主嫌我佔著後院廂房,誣陷我偷了庫房裡的老木料拿去賣錢。我被趕出趙家的那天,只帶走了一套鑿子。三個月後,祖宅大梁的榫卯開裂,全城竟沒有一個木匠敢接這個活。那可是明代的榫卯,修壞一處就少一處,珍貴的傳統工藝再也無法挽回。趙家挨個求遍了木匠,最後只能來找我。我帶著那套鑿子回到趙家,站在大廳裡說:「木頭不會說話,但木頭記得誰碰過它。」那根被誣陷說是我偷走的木料,我替你們找出來。
十年修宅无人问,一根榫卯见人心 · Ten Years Repairing a House, No One Asked; One Mortise and Tenon Sees the Human Heart