曾有机会在一次对我们历史悠久、文化灿烂的祖国古代计量考查工作中,发现了一件极其珍贵的文物,其结构独特奇异,制作精致新颖,它是汉代用于测量长度的铜尺。按其结构特点与使用性能应是卡尺。尺身上刻有铭文: 始建国元年正月癸酉朔日制铭文表明,此尺制作于西汉末王莽始建国元年,即公元九年。 Once had the opportunity to find an extremely precious artifact in his ancient and metrological examination of the ancient motherland, with a long history and a splendid culture, unique and unique in structure and novel in appearance. It is a copper ruler used for measuring length in the Han Dynasty. According to its structural characteristics and performance should be calipers. Ruler inscribed on the ruler: The first year of the founding of the PRC In the first month of the lunar January, the inscriptions show that this ruler was produced in the first year of the founding of the reign of Wang Mang in the late Western Han Dynasty, that is, in the ninth year of the Christian era.