One of the workers tells us that, in olden days, the work was divided among four people, hence the modern Chinese ideograph shows four stick-figure representations of men sitting under an inverted-V shelter.
現年四十餘歲的林義雄說，舊時一把傘的製作分給四個人做，即分傘骨、糊紙、上油與裝髹四部份，因此，中國文字「傘」，是一個傘形撐著四個人。