The size of a tombstone not only reveals information about the socio-economic status of the deceased and his or her family, but also, through the exact measure chosen, the metaphysical conceptions in a certain place and time and their materializations through professional carvers. 經測量得知碑寬35公分，長72.5公分（圖 7、圖 8）， Of particular importance is the questions whether the measures of the tombstone coincide with the specifications given in LUBAN.... 墓碑的尺寸、大小不僅能透漏此家族子孫的社經地位，更能透對於墓碑形式的觀推測其墓碑是否為專業師傅所刻製。其中一項重要的形式指標為墓碑的尺寸否實行魯班尺對於墓碑的習俗規範。魯班尺最早出現於文獻是記載於南宋的《事林廣記》中，而台灣最早記載以魯班尺作為造墓參考為十五世紀，魯班尺為古代木匠測量尺度所用。長約一尺四吋一分，劃分為八格，以：財、病、離、義、官、劫、害、本。
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