Offices of the Judges
Registers, investigations, and the work behind a verdict.
Clerks of the other world
Underworld judges keep registers, examine deeds, review grievances, and prepare decisions for the kings. They mirror the documentary work of human government. A book of life and death, a brush, an official tablet, and robes make this function visible in temple art and fiction. Cui is among the best-known individual judges.
The four-office arrangement
Modern accounts often assign Wei Zheng to rewarding good, Zhong Kui to punishing evil, Judge Lu to investigation, and Cui Jue to underworld law. The neat correspondence brings together historical officials, protective deities, local cults, and literary characters. Judge Lu comes from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio; his expanded name Lu Zhidao is not the name supplied by that story. This four-office chart is a later popular synthesis. It should not be presented as an unchanged organization prescribed by the Ten Kings scriptures or every Daoist text.
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