Lai Chih-chang notes that the layout of gravesites, Hakka mound-shaped altars, and traditional Chinese houses, simulates the form of the human body, in line with the concepts of fengshui. "A pair of curved 'arms' reaches round on either side, like hands wrapped around the pregnant bulge of the huatai.
不論是墳墓、客家墳塚式的伯公壇，或是傳統民居，「在中國人的風水觀裡，都模擬著人體，兩邊伸出的曲手、廂房，就像是人的雙手穩穩環抱著隆起的化胎。