Talisman for Averting Night-Crowing Chickens and Strange Spirits

Expert Explanation — What Is This?

A scan-derived talisman record from 正统道藏.02.洞真部神符类.明正统十年内府刊本.灰度胶片, PDF page 240 (right).

Traditional Purpose

The adjacent caption associates the form with averting night-crowing chickens and strange spirits.

Cultural Background

This primary Daoist-canon record is preserved as documentary evidence of a historical Chinese Daoist ritual-text tradition.

Traditional Use Context

The source records a historical ritual use connected with: The adjacent caption associates the form with averting night-crowing chickens and strange spirits. This is documentation, not an instruction to reproduce the practice.

Historical and traditional context only. This catalog does not promise real-world effects or provide practice instructions.

Understanding the Design

Printed talisman geometry preserved exactly from the rectangular source crop; no line repair or tracing.

Why This Matters

This record keeps a preserved visual form connected to its cited source in 正统道藏.02.洞真部神符类.明正统十年内府刊本.灰度胶片, page 240, so the image can be understood as historical documentation rather than an isolated symbol.

Modern platform presentation is limited to historical, cultural, artistic, and research reference; no effect is promised, and this is not medical, legal, or safety advice.