{"id":6297,"date":"2019-11-11T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/kongming-lock-kong-ming-suo\/"},"modified":"2019-11-11T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:45:15","slug":"kongming-lock-kong-ming-suo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/kongming-lock-kong-ming-suo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kongming Lock \u5b54\u660e\u9501"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ko<\/em>ngming lock<\/strong>(\u5b54\u660e\u9501K\u01d2ngmíngsu\u01d2) is a traditio<\/em>nal Chinese intellectual toy. It is said that the toy was invented by <\/span>Zhuge Kongming<\/strong>(\u8bf8\u845b\u5b54\u660e<\/span>Zh\u016bgé K\u01d2ngmíng<\/span>) some 2,000 years ago ba<\/em>sed on the principles of the <\/span>eight-diagram me<\/em>taphysics<\/strong>(\u516b\u5366\u7384\u5b66<\/span><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>B\u0101guàxuánxué<\/span>). It was widely popular among the folks. The co<\/em>ncave and co<\/em>nvex parts inside the three-dimensio<\/em>nal interpolation toy mesh perfectly. Ko<\/em>ngming locks come in different shapes and sizes, with different internal structures. But they are usually easy to take apart and difficult to reassemble.
<\/span><\/em>portant; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);”>In recent years, Ko<\/em>ngming lock made a comeback and became a popular toy for all, thanks to its functions of mind-body relaxing, intelligence boosting and making fingers more flexible. The lock may look simple, but it co<\/em>ntains lots of mysteries. If you don’t understand how it works, you can hardly put it together.  <\/span>
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