宋慈

Song Ci was a notable official in charge of judicial examination in ancient China. Detailed records of his career and the years of his birth and death are not available in the source materials, and public information is limited. His most important surviving work is the Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified (Washing Away of Wrongs), which systematically summarizes ancient experience in examining corpses, inspecting crime scenes, and judging causes of death and injury, and is regarded as one of the world's earlier monographs on forensic medicine. The collection contains seven related works, including the Song Ti Xing edition and annotated translations, showing the book's wide circulation and repeated editorial attention. Song Ci's writing is practical in nature, emphasizing evidence and observation, concise in style and clear in organization, and it has had a lasting influence on later judicial examination and the development of forensic medicine.