I once mentioned in Thieving Cat a city of chopsticks buried deep underground.
The entire city tower was made of wooden chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks that we see every day.
Although the shape is quite small, it is concrete and subtle.
There are city gates, city towers, and two sides.
It was a city wall built with countless chopsticks, and there were dozens of arrow windows on the watchtower to watch the enemy.
There is also a Chopstick Bridge on the moat in front of the city gate.
The entire bridge is made of chopsticks.
Although the chopsticks are long or short, and the materials are old and new, they are very strong and smooth.
The bridge deck is slightly arched and less than two feet wide. feet, but it is enough for people to walk across the bridge.
Using chopsticks, an ordinary thing that we usually see and use, to build cities and bridges that we see every day, it makes this city even more weird and extraordinary.
This is just a means of writing, and it is quite difficult to talk about the origin and connection.
Interesting.
In the early years when Beijing's flyovers were most prosperous, all three religions and nine streams gathered together, and all the gold and leather colors were hung.
The emphasis was on each having their own unique skills and abilities.
Otherwise, making money by performing arts was called "picking cakes from the ground" because they didn't know how to grow.
There is no business in the land, but this unique skill alone can make the spectators spend their money so that they can buy big cakes to make ends meet.
There is a charlatan from Baoding Prefecture, but I don’t see him performing tricks, selling medicine, or even shouting to make a scene.
He would come as early as possible, find a place, and build a city and pavilions with hundreds of pairs of chopsticks.
Every day was different, which was surprising.
It was his only business, and there was really someone taking care of his place. , come to see him build Chopstick Tower every day and throw down a few coins.
However, this city tower built by charlatan artists using only horizontal and vertical structures of chopsticks is not like the Chopstick Bridge in the Chopstick City written in my book, which is made of glue.
Think about it, if the chopsticks were glued together with glue.
How are you going to tear down the city and pavilions?
Wouldn’t that ruin your business?
However, there really is a wooden bridge that does not require glue or nails.
It is said that Cambridge University, the most famous university in the UK, has a mathematical bridge.
It was designed and built by Newton using the principles of mathematics and mechanics.
The entire wooden bridge is neither glued nor glued.
It is a miracle that it can be erected on the river for people to walk between the two banks without using a single nail.
Later, the curious students took it apart to see what was going on.
Who knew that it would be easy to remove it but difficult to restore it to its original appearance.
No matter what methods the students use, they just can't get back to their original state, and not even the school can do anything about it.
Finally, the wooden bridge had to be fixed with nails before the wooden bridge was re-erected.
However, the size and shape of this wooden bridge was much larger than the "Chopstick Bridge" mentioned in my book
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