Is mortise and tenon furniture any good?

As a fanatic of Chinese solid wood furniture, I would like to express my opinion.

For furniture that does not need to move up and down much, the mortise and tenon structure is very good, but for a series of chairs such as dining tables and chairs, desks and chairs that can be moved with backrests, this mortise and tenon structure is very impractical, and it is easy to slide off the supported wood due to repeated unidirectional pulls (before it was only placed in the living room but not used as a desk and chair for me after the dining table and chair, it was only five years before I was made to fall apart twice, it may be that I am too unlady...).

Furniture with mortise and tenon structures is more durable than furniture connected with iron nails. This combination effectively limits the twisting between the pieces in all directions. This is not possible with iron nail connections.

Secondly, metal is susceptible to rust or oxidation, while real solid wood furniture can be used for hundreds or thousands of years. Many Ming-style furniture are hundreds of years old, although the vicissitudes of life, but the wood is as hard as ever. If such furniture is assembled with iron nails, it is likely that the wood is intact, but due to the corrosion, fatigue, aging of the metal connection, etc., the furniture will fall apart.

Furniture with mortise and tenon structure is easy to transport. Many solid wood furniture is disassembled and transported, and then assembled and installed at the destination, which is very convenient. If you use iron nails to connect furniture, you can make it into a partial split, but you can't make furniture with a lot of small wooden pieces such as chairs.

Furniture with mortise and tenon structure for easy maintenance. If something goes wrong, furniture connected with iron nails is not as easy to disassemble and replace as mortise and tenon furniture.

Mortise and tenon structure furniture is a traditional form of furniture design, the combination of surface and surface makes the furniture more solid, Dongchen family also has mortise and tenon structure furniture.