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Song Ci's "Resolution of Wrongs" is the world's first systematic and complete forensic medicine monograph, which is more than 350 years earlier than the earliest forensic medicine works in the West. Therefore, he is recognized as the father of the world's forensic medicine. However, ancient Chinese officials have never paid much attention to science and technology. Therefore, forensic medicine, which is highly dependent on related science and technology, developed slowly after the Song Dynasty and was gradually surpassed by the West in the midst of the scientific revolution. However, Song Ci and his "Removal of Wrongs" still had a huge impact on later generations and forensic medicine in East Asia, and later caused a sensation when it was introduced to Europe. In particular, some of the inspection and tracking methods recorded in the book, such as the red oil umbrella injury inspection method similar to modern ultraviolet injury inspection, and the fly identification method similar to modern forensic entomology, are even more amazing. Song Ci served in local offices throughout his life, and only took up a higher-level official position in his later years, and died soon after. There is no official biography of Song Ci in the history of the Song Dynasty. There are very few records in the history books at that time or in later generations. Whether it is his fame or the importance of his official position, it seems that he is not as good as Di Gong and Bao Qingtian, who were portrayed as detectives. What kind of unusual story does such a figure who seems to be insignificant and underappreciated in history, but who seems to have a huge influence and full of power in the future, have such an unusual story?