Hsu Fu-chuan, who has researched funerary culture for many years and has won the appelation "Master of the Dead," sees the Soul Guiding Chen as somthing the Chinese people have developed to "appease the soul of the deceased."
素有「死人大師」之稱、研究喪葬文化多年的學者徐福全認為，牽亡陣是中國民間版的「安魂曲」。