Taoist priests organized themselves using different categories and assigned themselves different jobs based on their ranking. Both Taoist priest and priestess performed Taoist rituals. Their rankings were included when Taoist priests signed records for rituals which would be burned for certain rituals such as the Yellow Register Zhai (黃籙齋) rituals, or burial rituals, and Golden Register Jiao (金籙醮), or temple renewal type rituals. Because records were being burned, some scholars tasked themselves with the responsibility of copying down the manuscripts before they were used in the ritual.