Tangram is one of the ancient toys in the East.
Tangram is one of the ancient toys in the East.
As the ancients said, "The benevolent enjoys Leshan, but the wise enjoys water." In fact, the joy of the wise is not limited to water. You see, the idle and ingenious ancients were not only good at jigsaw puzzles, but also at disassembling the nine-ring chain. They have the ingenuity of Lu Ban and constantly challenge Lu Ban Lock with wisdom; With the wisdom of Kong Ming, they played word games between the lines. Whenever there is a festive feast and a full house of relatives and friends, the scene of noisy and jubilant drinking orders makes people sigh how happy this is!
Tangram is one of the ancient toys in the East, and it is known as the "puzzle from China" and "Oriental Magic Board". It once fascinated Napoleon, a military strategist, and made Du Lei, a famous French illustrator, fondle admiringly. In the case-solving novel "The Nail Case" written by Gao Luopei in the Netherlands, the jigsaw puzzle of the dumb boy has become the clue and key to solving the case ... What's so special about the small jigsaw puzzle? Why is it famous at home and abroad?
when tangram originated is still inconclusive. Some people say that it originated from Yanjitu in the Song Dynasty. The so-called "Yan Ji" is a few cases when entertaining guests. By chance, Huang Bosi, a scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty, designed six rectangular tables. At the banquet, he adjusted the arrangement of the tables according to the number of guests, which was very convenient. Later, he added a small number, and put all seven cases together to form a rectangle for many people to eat. This is the prototype of the jigsaw puzzle.
In the Ming Dynasty, the painter Ge Shan added six more cases according to the assembling principle of Huang Bosi Yan Ji. Thirteen cases are combined together to form the figure of butterfly spreading its wings, which is the wonderful butterfly wing. Tangram is developed on the basis of Yan Guitu and Butterfly Wings.
Lu Yiqing, a medical scientist in the Qing Dynasty, wrote in "Miscellaneous Knowledge in Leng Lu": "There are seven ingenious pictures recently, with five forms and seven numbers, and its changing forms are as many as a thousand. Things are small and changeable. Covering the game is enough to break the silence, so the secular world is happy. " Roughly speaking, jigsaw puzzle is to divide a square into seven figures, which can be spelled into squares, rectangles, people, horses, dogs and other shapes. Seven small drawing boards can spell out many graphics that you think of in your heart. The fun it brings to people lies in its infinite possibilities.