Sòng Cí 宋慈 (1186–1249, zì Huìfǔ 惠父; CBDB 33118), Southern-Sòng judicial official and the compiler of the Xǐyuān jílù 洗冤集錄 (KR3et002), the first systematic East-Asian handbook of forensic medicine. Native of Jiànyáng 建陽 (Jiànníngfǔ 建寧府, modern Fújiàn). His lineage is traced in his funerary inscription (撰於 Liú Kèzhuāng 劉克莊, 《後村先生大全集》 卷一五九) back to the Northern-Sòng councillor Sòng Jǐng 宋璟 (Wénzhēngōng 文真公, CBDB 31275). Sòng Cí took the jìnshì 進士 degree of 1217 (嘉定十年) and served in a long series of judicial and provincial appointments under Lǐzōng 理宗, culminating in his repeated tenure as tídiǎn xíngyù 提點刑獄 (judicial intendant / circuit coroner) of the Húnán, Jiāngxī, Guǎngdōng and Guǎngxī circuits. The compilation of the Xǐyuān jílù is dated by its own preface to 淳祐丁未 嘉平節前十日 (= early 1247) and was printed by his own provincial office in Húnán. He died in office and was given the posthumous title Huìfǔzhāogōng 惠父昭公.
CBDB (33118) records the lifedates as 1183–1246; the dates 1186–1249 followed here are those derived by modern scholarship from Liú Kèzhuāng’s funerary inscription and are the dates accepted by Brian E. McKnight, Endymion Wilkinson and the standard reference literature (the CBDB entry preserves an earlier reading).