中国封建社会的官衙机构是一个非常庞杂的系统。在这个系统最底层、也最为庞大的“胥役”中的“仵作”与各“衙役”同班当差,但因其接触尸体的特殊性其地位更低下,被认为是贱役中的“贱役”。自先秦至清末,官衙中的“仵作”一直扮演着一个看似重要,但实际上却被世人鄙夷的角色。“仵作”远没有因为宋慈的盛名而带来的荣光。 The government office in China’s feudal society is a very complex system. At the lowest level of the system, the most influential “Xu service” in the “Xu service” and the “runners” with the same class as bad, but because of its contact with the corpus of the lower the status of its lower body, is considered to be cheap in the “cheap service ”. Since the Qin Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the “novels” in official Yamen have been playing a seemingly important but actually scornful role of the world. “Novels” far from the glory of Song Ci’s reputation.