water gods invoked by sailors for protection while carrying out journeys.

He is referenced in a number of Chinese idioms. The Chinese equivalent of "teaching one's grandmother to suck eggs" is to "brandish one's axe at Lu Ban's door" (????). His cultural companion is the stone worker Wang Er, who lived around the same time.

The Lu Ban Ruler (???) is used in feng shui practices.

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