How many centimeters is one foot equal to Lu Banchi?
1. Lu Banchi is about 42.9 cm long. According to legend, it was made by the public class of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, people used the geomantic world to measure the quality of houses by adding Lu half a foot to the eight characters. Therefore, Lu Banchi is also called "Fang" or "Menmi". Lubanchi integrated the Ding Lan ruler, and later added units of measurement such as inches and centimeters. Lu Banchi is a very important calibration and measurement tool.
How many centimeters is one foot equal to Lu Banchi?
2. At present, there are two kinds of popular Lu Banchi in China, one is 42.9 cm Lu Banchi, and the other is 50.4 cm. Moreover, in the folk, 29.76 cm, 30 cm and 30.86 cm are all considered as one foot of Lu. Therefore, the size of Lubanchi is not uniform. Some researchers think that people may confuse two different scales, namely ruler and Lu Banchi. The dimensions of 29.76 cm, 30 cm and 30.86 cm are very close to the modern metric length of ruler, that is, 42.9 cm1.44-29.79 cm.