E ai ki te pūrākau, he tohunga mahi toi a Yun, te wahine a Lu Ban, i Haina onamata. Ko ia te kaihanga o te maru, ā, ko te maru tuatahi i hoatu ki tana tāne hei whakamahi māna i tana haerenga ki te hanga whare mō te tangata.
Kua roa te kupu "maru" e whakamahia ana, nō reira, i hangaia pea e ia tētahi maru ka taea te pupuri tahi. Ko te pātai mō wai te kaihanga o te maru kua waiho hei kaupapa mō ngā whakaaro rerekē.
I Haina, i hangaia te maru e Yun i te tau 450 BC pea. I huaina he "whare nekeneke". I Ingarangi, kāore i whakamahia ngā maru tae noa ki te rautau 18. I mua, he taonga wahine te maru, e tohu ana i te waiaro o te wahine ki te aroha. Ko te pupuri i te maru kia tika ko te tikanga kua piripono ia ki te aroha; ko te pupuri tuwhera i tōna ringa maui ko te tikanga "Kāore he wā hei wātea i ahau inaianei". Ko te rūrū mārire i te maru ko te tikanga kāore he maia, he kore whakawhirinaki rānei ki te maru; ko te okioki i te maru ki te pakihiwi matau ko te tikanga kāore e hiahia ki te kite anō i tētahi. I te rautau 19, ka tīmata ngā tāne ki te whakamahi i ngā maru. Nā te ua i Ingarangi, he wāhanga nui o te oranga o Peretānia te maru, ā, ka noho hei tohu mō te tikanga noho tuku iho o Peretānia, he mea nui mō ngā kaihokohoko me ngā āpiha o Rānana, ā, ko te tohu o te hunga Peretānia – ko John Bull me te maru i tōna ringa. He taonga nui hoki i roto i ngā tuhinga me ngā kiriata. I whakatūria he whare taonga maru i Ingarangi i te tau 1969. He maha atu ngā whakamahinga o ngā maru. I te tau 1978, i werohia tētahi rōpū o ngā tāngata o Bulgaria i peia ki ngā pito o ngā maru e ngā kaikōhuru i te Piriti o Waterloo, ā, i mate i te paitini. Ka taea te rehu i ētahi kakau maru ki te pepa, ā, ka whakamahia hei aukati i ngā kurī nanakia kei whaia, kei ngau rānei.
Wā tuku: Oketopa-24-2022
