The Legend of Lu Ban

Filmed by the Shanghai Film Studio in 1958, directed by the famous director Sun Yu and starring Wei Heling; the main plot is: the film chooses three stories to run through: building a bridge, building a temple, and building a turret. It focuses on showing that Lu Ban, a craftsman from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, is the embodiment of the hard work and wisdom of the working people, proving that extraordinary miracles are created from ordinary labor. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a skilled craftsman named Lu Ban, who was known as the "ancestor of carpenters" in legend. One day, Lu Ban was passing somewhere in Sichuan and saw a large stone bridge under construction. According to the design of Master Zhao Zhang, who built the bridge, the bridge body cannot be closed. Lu Ban chiseled a big stone and gave it to Cui'er, a poor girl who was about to get married but could not afford a wedding dress. At the pass where the stone bridge closed, Tweetie donated the stone. The bridge was built, and Tweetie no longer had to worry about her dowry. When building an ancestral temple somewhere in the south of the Yangtze River, it was stipulated that yellow wattle trees should be used as the main beams and cinnabar stone as the pavilion cover. The ink master Zhang Zhang who built the temple was very worried. Lu Ban came up with the methods of "Lu Liang Liang" and "Tudui Pavilion", so that the ancestral temple could be built. The emperor wanted to build four turrets for the palace city, and stipulated that each turret must have nine beams, eighteen columns, and seventy-two ridges. Many ink masters who designed buildings were unable to meet this requirement, and seven famous masters in a row were killed by the emperor. In the end, the project fell to Master Li Zhang, but he