At first they used to carve on just the words shih kan tang, but later some people thought they should add other stuff, like "stop wind stop evil," "t'ai chi and the eight trigrams," "sword lion," and so on.
最早，他們只刻上「石敢當」三字。後來，有些人覺得該加上些別的東西，以增強其法力，於是像「止風止煞」、「太極八卦」、「劍獅」、「獸頭」、「納福」等漸次增多。