Lu Ban is revered as the ancestor of carpenters and craftsmen, and his name is a household name in China.

His spirit of thinking about the people, enduring hardship, perseverance, and innovation has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Lu Ban was a famous inventor during the Warring States Period. His surname was Gongshu and his given name was Ban. Because Lu Ban was from the Lu state, and "Ban" and "Ban" were interchangeable in ancient times, later generations called him Lu Ban.

It is said that when Lu Ban was young, he went through all kinds of hardships and finally arrived at Zhongnan Mountain to study under his master for three years.

It is said that his master was an old immortal who knew carpentry skills. The master tested Lu Ban many times and finally taught him all the skills.

After Lu Ban came down from the mountain after completing his studies, he invented and created many practical tools for people's production and life.

Everyone is familiar with saws, axes, rulers, ink fountains, shovels, stone mills, etc., which provide people with many conveniences, and his skills are still respected today.

Mozi, named Zhai, was a native of the Song Dynasty in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period. He served as a senior official in the Song Dynasty, an ancient Chinese thinker, educator, scientist, military strategist, and the founder and main representative of the Mohist school.

Mozi is the founder of Mohist theory. He put forward the viewpoint of "universal love" and "non-attack". With universal love as the core, frugality and respecting the virtuous as the fulcrum, he founded a system with outstanding achievements in geometry, physics, and optics.

a set of scientific theories.

Mohism had a great influence in the pre-Qin period and was called "Xianxue" together with Confucianism.

The contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Warring States period was known as "both Confucianism and Mohism."

Lu Ban was a native of Lu, and Mozi was a native of Song. Under what historical background, Lu Ban and Mozi had a peak showdown. What significant impact did this peak showdown have on Lu Ban?

According to records, around AD 450, in order to dominate the world, King Chu Hui of the Chu State at that time invited Lu Ban to the Chu State to help the Chu State make weapons.

Lu Ban invented and created nine kinds of very terrifying combat instruments, including the ladder that often appeared in later histories and novels, and the magic weapons "hook" and "rejection" for winning in water battles.

The King of Chu prepared to use these weapons to attack Song State in order to achieve the purpose of occupying Song State's territory.

After Mozi heard the news, he immediately set out from the Song Dynasty. He traveled without sleep, eating the wind and drinking the dew, for ten days and ten nights, and finally arrived at the Chu Kingdom.

Mozi went to find Lu Ban first, and Lu Ban asked him: What's the rush for walking such a long way?

Mozi said: If someone insults me, can you kill him? I will give you gold.

Lu Ban said: I believe in benevolence and justice and will never kill anyone.

Mozi bowed to Lu Ban and said: Is it benevolent and righteous for Chu to attack Song?

You say you don't kill people, but many people will die in war.

Lu Ban said: I have promised King Chu, what should I do?

Mozi said: Take me to see the King of Chu.

When he saw the King of Chu, Mozi said: There are people who steal other people's shabby cars when they have good cars; steal other people's rags when they have rich clothes; who steal other people's chaff when they have good food?

The king of Chu said: This man must be sick.

Mozi said: Chu is big and rich, Song is small and broken, and if Chu fights against Song, there will be something wrong with it.

The king of Chu still refused to accept it.

The King of Chu said, I will definitely destroy Song in three days and three nights.

Mozi warned the King of Chu that if he invaded the Song Kingdom, the Chu Kingdom would be completely destroyed. The King of Chu did not believe it at all.

Mozi said that he could use the Mo family's agency to practice a duel with the Gongshuban agency. If it failed, King Chu could go and destroy the Song Dynasty.

So a peak showdown between Lu Ban and Mozi began.

In the palace of the King of Chu, Mozi had a duel with the Gongshu Ban in front of the King of Chu and his generals.

He used his belt as a city wall. Gongshuban attacked and Mozi defended. They fought nine battles in one battle.

All the nine mechanisms invented and created by the Gongshu Ban were exhausted, and they were all resolved by Mozi one by one. The result was that Mozi won nine out of nine battles, while the Gongshu Ban lost completely and was surrendered by Mozi.

Therefore, the King of Chu gave up the idea of ??attacking Song State, and Song State was saved.

This is the famous allusion of "stopping Chu and attacking Song" with nine attacks and nine rejections. This allusion is recorded in detail in "Mozi Gongshu".

There is another record in "Mozi Lu Wen" that Mozi and Lu Ban had such a conversation. Luban said to Mozi: I have hooks and rejections for boat battles, do you also have hooks and rejections for righteousness?

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Mozi advocated peace, universal love, non-aggression, and opposed war. So he said to Lu Ban: I use love to hook and respectful to reject.

If you hook people with hooks, they will hook you with hooks. If you reject people with hooks, they will reject you with hooks.

Isn't your righteous Goujii not as powerful as Shangzhou's Goujii?

Lu Ban was speechless.

Mozi advocated the manufacture of practical production tools to benefit the people, and opposed the manufacture of weapons for war.

Lu Ban accepted Mozi's ideas, so he, a military expert, shifted his main focus from manufacturing weapons to the invention and creation of civilian woodworking and machinery.

Luban successively invented and created a variety of practical tools for production and life, and left behind many beautiful and moving legends and stories.