Rag King

"King of Rags" takes "Shou Yi" as its core and tells the legendary story of Zhu Xuan, the son of "King of Rags" Zhu Zhengguo, inheriting his father's legacy and craftsmanship of mortise and tenon joints, and protecting traditional craftsmanship. As the core of the Shouyi Workshop, Zhu Xuan, together with his partners such as Su Qingyao and Lu Mingxuan, united with Dunhuang orphan Amu and other young Shouyi artists to fight against the forces headed by Chen Kun and Zhu Zhengming (Zhu Xuan's uncle) - they coveted the mysterious power of "Tennons in the World" and attempted to transform traditional crafts into tools of plunder. From the mortise and tenon inheritance class in the old kiln factory in Dunhuang, to the "symbiotic mortise and tenon" crisis in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, to the confrontation at the Wanchun Pavilion in Jingshan, Zhu Xuan's team used the "half machine, half work" model to explore the balance between business and ingenuity, and used traditional wisdom such as mortise and tenon traps and "tenon wood" to resolve the crisis. In the process, Zhu Xuan gradually uncovered the legendary past of his father, the "King of Rags" - using the scrapyard as a cover to protect the mortise and tenon fragments, using old wood to repair ancient buildings, and interpreting the craftsman's soul with "persistence" rather than strength; he also clarified the family secret: his uncle Zhu Zhengming went astray due to greed, and finally repented under the inspiration of family love and original intention. As the fragments of "Tianxia Tenon" have been assembled one after another, clues to the "Valley of Craftsman Souls", the birthplace of the craftsman, have emerged. The theft of exhibits at the Louvre in Paris and the emergence of new black stone forces indicate that the journey to protect the inheritance is far from over. The story uses the mortise and tenon craftsmanship as a link to connect the persistence of three generations of craftsmen, interpreting the theme of "craftsmanship is the original intention, inheritance is symbiosis".