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Tight as a thread, seamless as a seal, and coupled like yin and yang. For centuries, sunmao structures _________(provide) sturdy and durable supports for Chinese wooden architecture. Large components of traditional Chinese wooden architecture, including columns, beams, purlins and dougong (interlocking brackets), are often pieced together__________ (use) sunmao structures.
The convex sun (tenon joint) and the concave mao (mortise), when interlocked, both support and contain the adjoining parts. This augments stability, but also adds ________(flexible) to the architecture, strong enough to resist earthquakes.
Craftsmen can make and process the components in advance and assemble them quickly on site, _________ is simple and efficient. The Hemudu site in Yuyao, East China’s Zhejiang province, __________ (date) back around 7,000 years.
Hundreds of wooden _________(component) with sunmao structures have been unearthed from the remains of stilted houses there, the earliest known application of sunmao structures in China in wooden-frame building.
Since the Shang (c. 16th century-11th century BC) and Zhou (c. 11th century-256 BC) dynasties, generations of carpenters, with ________(they) ingeniousness, have produced more than a hundred types of sunmao structures.
From such, a whole set of systematic methods was devised, _________ selecting locations and choosing materials, to structure, measurements, manufacture and assembly.
For the craftsmen who have preserved and guarded this heritage, and for the generations of people who have lived in and among the spaces defined by it across China, wood and wooden structures have always been _________ important constituent of Chinese architecture.
Their styles may differ, ________ they all share the same root. Chinese people’s love of nature and pursuit of harmonious coexistence is also embedded within.
Tight as a thread, seamless as a seal, and coupled like yin and yang.
紧密如线,无缝如印,阴阳耦合。
For centuries, sunmao structures ______