Banmen get the axe, also known as "get the axe class", which means dancing the axe in front of the Luban gate, which is a metaphor for showing off your skills in front of the experts, and you can't measure your strength. The idiom first came from Liu Zongyuan's "Wang's Bozhong Singing and Poem Preface" in the Tang Dynasty, "Exercise the axe in the class and the gate of Ying, and Siqiang Yan'er." ”
Lu Ban, surnamed Ji, Gong Yi, the name is the same. It is also known as the public loser, the public loser, the class loses, the Lu pan, the Lu pan, etc. Lu Ban was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, born in the thirteenth year of King Jing of Zhou (507 BC), and lived from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States Period.
Lu Ban was born in a family of craftsmen, and his family has been a craftsman for generations, so Lu Ban has participated in many civil engineering and construction projects with his family since he was a child, so he has gradually mastered some labor skills and accumulated rich practical experience.
Around the nineteenth year of King Zhending of Zhou (450 BC), Lu Ban came to Chu from Lu State, when Chu State was planning to attack Song State, and Lu Ban assisted Chu State in manufacturing cloud ladders and other siege equipment. As a result, before the Chu State sent troops, Mozi came to the capital of the Chu State thousands of miles away, and fought with Lu Ban in the palace of the king of Chu with clothes and belts as the city and bamboo slices as tools, which finally convinced Lu Ban, and the king of Chu gave up attacking the Song Dynasty.
According to the records of ancient books such as "The Pearl of Things", "The Original of Things" and "Ancient History", many tools and instruments used by woodworkers from ancient times to the present are invented and created by Luban in the long-term practice process, such as curved rulers (also known as Luban rulers), ink fountains, planers, drills, saws, etc., which greatly improve the labor efficiency of carpentry.
In addition to the invention and creation of carpentry, due to the frequent exchanges between countries since the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban also invented and transformed a lot of weapons, such as "Mozi Lu Wen" recorded that Lu Ban changed the "hook" into a "hook strong" for boat warfare, and "Mozi Gong Lose" recorded that Lu Ban changed the "ladder" into a "cloud ladder" that can stand in the air.
In addition, "Shiben" and "Wuyuan Qiyuan" record that Lu Ban also invented agricultural tools such as hull, stone mill, and mill, and according to legend, machine seals, stone carvings, Luban wells, locks, and keys were also invented by Lu Ban.
According to legend, at the same time as Luban, in the capital of Yingdu, the capital of Chu State, there was also a skilled craftsman who was very good at using axes, and his name was "Shi", known as Craftsman Stone. It is said that his ability is equal to that of Lu Ban, so how high is his ability?
According to the records in "Zhuangzi, Miscellaneous Chapters, Xu Wu Ghost", Jiangshi has a good friend, and the two of them often cooperate with performances, this friend will smear a little white mud on the tip of his nose, only the size of the wings of mosquitoes and flies, and then Jiangshi will swing the axe, and the white mud on the tip of the nose will go away, but the nose will not be hurt a little.
Liu Zongyuan said in "Wang's Bozhong Singing and Poetry Preface" that "the axe is in the class and the gate of Ying", the class naturally refers to Lu Ban, and Ying's refers to the stone of Yingdu, that is to say, the axe of the class originally refers to Lu Ban and the stone carpenter, after all, although Lu Ban is respected as the ancestor of the carpenter, there is never any historical mention that he is good at using axes, but the stone is very good at using axes.
Whether it is Lu Ban or Craftsman, the reason why they are so proficient in skills is through the experience accumulated through long-term practice, after Lu Ban accumulated experience, he invented and created a large number of tools, and Craftsman Stone has developed a super high axe ability through long-term practice.
Later, with the changes of the times, the name of the stone was gradually hidden, leaving only the name of Lu Ban, such as Ouyang Xiu's "Book with Mei Shengyu" in the Song Dynasty, "Yesterday in Zhending, there were seven or eight poems, and today they are recorded, and the class gate gets an axe, which is ridiculous and ridiculous";