What are Taoist banners used for, and what are Taoist general banners used for?

Taoism "began to build a fast, near the gap of the fast altar, set up a long pole, raise a standard, smell the dome thick, and tell the souls", making it "obvious to all, ghosts and gods look far away." There are many kinds of banners. According to the scriptures of Lingbao Infinite Man, there are banners with evocation photos, banners with evocation holes and banners with evocation. There are twenty-four kinds of forgiveness by the Jade Emperor. However, according to Jin Yunzhong, a Taoist priest in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only two kinds of flags in ancient times, namely, moving gods and returning to glory. Move the "Shen Bao" banner to "crimson seven feet or forty-nine feet", make a banner, study it with vermilion orpiment, and the banner looks like the sun and the moon. Books are named after banners, and left-handed books are forbidden for three days, while right-handed books are forbidden for three days. When the dead see this, they will offend obstacles, and God will move to the Nangong. "Back to Yaoling Banner" is white and yellow. The banner is 24 feet or 49 feet long and full of books. The left foot book is too faint to return to the yellow flag, and there is no English coffin. The book on the right foot is called Long Night House, and the soul is born. The book in the left hand is like a cloud in the vast Du Feng, and the book in the right hand is like golden light. Hanging under the altar with a long pole, letting the wind blow, ten ghosts, seeing this spirit and thinking of conversion, are culpable of punishment and eliminated in time, even the big crime of dust and labor is eliminated. You will be born in Nangong, hell will be opened, and dead souls will be reborn. "However, in the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Palace Imperial Seal thought that" all the flags in the world are topped with lotus leaves, and the lotus leaves fall, which is very vulgar ". Therefore, Zhu Quan is "more ancient". The banner is topped by the tree of Jatropha curcas, and there are clouds on the sun, the moon and the stars, and there are two paintings to show the sky. Write the name of the Emperor of Heaven on your stomach and use dragons and phoenixes on your feet. Both sides take the image in hand, with Yunlong Feng Fei as the deputy, and take the image in person. Falling feet also use paulownia wood to draw images of mountains and rivers, five mountains and four blasphemies, and taking land. "However, the production of this flag has not been circulated in the future.

For example, coffins are used to lead the way to summon ghosts and gods, and generally they will write to seek the holy name of the sound to feel the salvation of Taiyi. There are also etiquette names.