Archaeologist Chiang Kuang-chi offers this explanation of the tsung: in the Liangzhu era, they already had the position of the so-called "witch doctor," who helped the people communicate with heaven by using the shape of the tsung to symbolize the round sky and the square earth.
考古學者張光直對琮的解釋是：在良渚時代，應有所謂「巫師」階級，藉天圓地方的琮形，幫人們溝通天地，而當時可能已有階級社會。