Huang Wen-po, a scholar of folk customs who has probably done more observation of the Soul Guiding Chens in southern Taiwan than anyone, says that a Taoist priest explained to him that the three colors black, blue, and white represent the three stage of life: old age, adulthood, and childhood.
觀察南部牽亡陣最多的民俗學者黃文博表示，也有法師解釋，黑、青、白三色象徵的正是人生老、壯、少三個階段。