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Haihai and Meimei's Travels | The charm of mortise and tenon structure

BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Mortise-and-tenon joinery, or sunmao in Chinese, is a concavo-convex connection method used to combine two pieces of wood, widely found in ancient Chinese buildings and furniture. In this chapter of our comics, join Haihai and Meimei as they visit the legendary Foguang Temple and Yingxian Wooden Pagoda in north China's Shanxi Province to discover the magic of mortise-and-tenon joints