Lu Banchi is divided into yin ruler and yang ruler, and the upper and lower yin rulers should be used.
Positive ruler refers to the measurement of houses, such as office buildings, residential buildings, furniture, doorways and rooms.
The use of yin ruler began from Ding (that is, three inches), and the ancients meant one inch and one inch (leaving two), ancestral halls, temples, mausoleum arches, tombstones, stone statues, horses, dolls, memorial halls and so on.
1. What is Lubanchi?
As a measuring tool with traditional characteristics in China, Lu Banchi has been gradually ignored. But for consumers who are very particular about geomantic omen, they have to know Lu Banchi when buying mahogany furniture. The floor ruler, also known as "quasi-floor ruler", is a measuring tool used in building houses and houses, similar to the bending ruler used by craftsmen today. It is divided into four rows from left to right, which are the traditional four scales of inch, Lu Banchi, Ding Lan ruler and centimeter. Lu half a foot is about 42.09 cm long. It is said that it was written by Lu Ban, the Duke of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, eight characters were added to the geomantic circle to measure the good and bad luck of houses and houses, which was called "door plan".
Its eight characters are "wealth", "illness", "separation", "righteousness", "official", "robbery", "harm" and "capital", and each word is divided into four small characters to distinguish the good from the bad.