The Four Judges

The judge is the name of the underworld official in ancient folklore, which is derived from the judge of the underworld in traditional culture. The long fierce gods are vicious, insidious and cunning, but most of them are kind and upright people at heart. The duty is to sentence people to reincarnation of life and death, punish the bad guys, and reward the good guys. The judge is located in the temple of the Son of Heaven in the capital and is in charge of judging the ghosts who have come to the underworld. The four famous judges are: the Division of Rewarding the Good, the Division of Punishing the Evil, the Division of Inspection, and the Division of Yin Law.

Reward Division: Wei Zheng

He is in charge of Shanbo, dressed in a green robe, and has a lovely smile. All the good imps before their lives are arranged by him, and they will be rewarded according to the degree and amount of good deeds before their deaths. In the six realms of reincarnation, or ascend to the sky to become a god, or reincarnate as a human, you only need to drink a bowl of ecstasy tea at Meng Po, forget the grievances in life, and you can eat the fireworks of the world again.

His person was originally Dr. Guanglu of Tang Taizong, named Zheng Guogong, and nicknamed Wenzhen. It is mentioned in "Journey to the West" that Wei was authorized by the gods to dream of beheading the Dragon King of the Jing River. He was upright and upright, even in the face of the anger of the Tang King, he dared to speak outright, faced the court dispute, never backed down, and after his death, it was rumored that he was taken under the command of Yama, and he was in charge of rewarding kindness.

Punishment Division: Zhong Kui

Dressed in a purple robe, his eyes were wide with anger. His lips were closed, and he looked businesslike. All the ghosts who come to report are reflected in front of the mirror of evil, showing good and evil, and distinguishing between good and bad. All the evil ghosts who did evil in his life were dealt with by him, and he sentenced them according to the principle of "four noes and four nos" of the king of Yama, the four no's - disloyalty, unfilial piety, unfaithfulness, and unbelief; Four nos - rudeness, unrighteousness, incorruptibility, shamelessness, light punishment for minor crimes, heavy punishment for serious crimes, and then handed over to the evil punishment platform, sent to the eighteenth layer of hell, until the sentence is completed, and then handed over to the reincarnation hall, pulled to turn into a cow and a horse, into a worm and into a dog, etc., and return to the yang world.

In the repertoire of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, it is mentioned that the Emperor of Heaven took pity on him and crowned Zhong Kui as "the judge of the world, specializing in catching ghosts and ghosts." Therefore, after the Qing Dynasty, Zhong Kui also appeared in the image of military judgment. In "Qing Jialu", Lu Yusong has a poem: "The pomegranate flower spits flames and calamus, and the painting looks white and white." The green-robed black hat and Jimo boots are known to be the guests of Zhongnan Mountain. The eyes are like dots, the hair is like 虬 [qiú], the lips are like blood, and the hair is like a halberd. Look at the Suo Suo disciples in the world, and don't eat smoke and ghosts. What year to take a photo in the world, everywhere Duanyang to drive away the epidemic. There are countless ghosts in the world, and the aura escapes. The king has hundreds of billions of bodies, but the ghosts are directly teaching the ghosts. ”

Chachasi: The Way of the Land

His eyes are like electricity, upright, and he looks righteous and awe-inspiring. Its duty is to let the good get good rewards, the good things are promoted, so that the evil people are punished as they deserve, and to redress the wronged.

In "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", it was said that Lingyang Zhu Erdan and Lu Juan were friends, and Lu Juan was a pig ear and easy heart, which made his literary thinking soar, and he was the best in the autumn fruit. Lu sentenced him to change his wife's head later, leaving only a red line around his neck, and judging the two online and offline, it can be described as a miracle skill.

Yin Law Division: Cui Jue

Judge Cui is the number one person in the well-known Yin Cao Difu, dressed in a red robe, holding a life and death book in his left hand and a soul hooking pen in his right hand, specializing in the task of adding longevity to the good and returning the evil to the yin. According to "Journey to the West", this public surname is Cui Mingjue, who was a minister under the control of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and was the official of the county order of Zizhou, and was later promoted to the Ministry of Rites. Before his death, he was an official and upright, and after his death, he became the most trusted judge of the king of Yama, in charge of the investigation department, rewarding the good and punishing the evil, managing the life and death of people, the crown of power in ancient and modern times, you see that he holds the "life and death book" and the soul hook pen, just a hook ~ point, who should die and who should live is only in the moment.