Besides strengthening the body, self-defense, and calling together large numbers of people, the Sung Chiang brigade, under the leadership of the local temple, had the function of unifying the peasantry. "Southern Tai wan is mostly concentrations of villages, combining wealth and power.
除了強身、防衛，要召集眾多人數，還有賴地方領袖或廟方主持人的領導統御，宋江陣因此有團結鄉民的功能。