| Exhibit, "Bronze Statue of Lo Pan, 1960s".
There is a saying that "thread regulates criteria, compass regulates radii" (yardsticks are used to determine straightness, while compasses and set squares are used to make circles and squares). Accuracy is a basic requirement of all construction techniques. The instruments placed beside the statue are an ink marker (a thread dyed in ink for marking lines), a ruler and an axe., which were early construction tools. Apart from axes, which have been replaced by saws, ink markers and rulers remain vital tools to this day. In the 1960s and 1970s, small statues of Lo Pan were given by the earliest Lo Pan Temple in Hong Kong to construction sites as blessings.
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