What is the relationship between Yan and Zhong Kui and the judge? Whose rank is higher?

"Yan" is a foreign concept, which came into being with the introduction of Buddhism into China. The king of Yan is the king of Yan.

Buddhism is developing gradually in China. After the Tang Dynasty, in order to adapt to China people's attention to the underworld, there was only one Yan Luowang in Buddhism, which gradually evolved into ten, namely "Ten Temples in Yamaraja", commonly known as "Ten Temples in Yanjun", and became the universal belief of Buddhism and Taoism in China.

In the common belief system of China people, the three emperors manage the things in the three realms, namely, the Heaven Emperor of Shangyuan protects the people, the Emperor of the Central Plains, the Yin Emperor of Erdong, the Yin Emperor of Shuipin, and the last three gods Yao, Shun and Yu. The second-class emperor of the Central Plains pardoned sins and cleared the emptiness of the throne.

In charge of all the affairs of mountains, rivers, land and the nether world, there is Dongyue Emperor in charge of the affairs of Wuyue and the nether world, and Dongyue Emperor in charge of Fengdu Emperor in the ghost town of Du Feng. "Ten Yamaraja" is responsible for judging the good and evil of ghosts and sending them to the results.

The ten halls in Yamaraja are: the first hall, King Qin Guang; the second hall, King Chu and King Jiang; the third hall, Emperor Song; the fourth hall, King ENT; the fifth hall, King Rosen; the sixth hall, King Bian Cheng; the seventh hall, King Taishan; the eighth hall, the capital city; the ninth hall, the equal king; and the tenth hall, the rotating king. And Zhong Kui is one of Mundus. Sanfu Mundus is the first emperor of Guan Sheng, the second is the true emperor Wu, and the third is the true exorcist.

Zhong Kui's image is: dressed in scarlet official clothes, wearing a black hat, holding a sword in one hand and a fan in the other, stepping on evil spirits. Or there are little devils carrying lanterns, holding seals, holding umbrellas, leading horses, carrying gourds and so on.

Yan Luowang only sentenced ghosts to good and evil, and sent them to retribution, while Zhong Kui, who was named Emperor, was more powerful and powerful than Zhong Kui.

The judge is an important role in assisting the underworld to manage Yin and Yang. There are two judges: civil judges and military judges. The judge is dressed in official clothes, with a writing brush in his right hand and a life and death book in his left. Judge Wu drew a ruler on his forehead, wore official clothes and held a "mace cone", which is also commonly known as a nine-segment (layer) whip. He is responsible for escorting the dead and checking the life and death books. According to records, a * * * has 21 judges: Wang Fu, a judge in the case of chasing souls, Ban Jian, a judge in the case of looting, Jia Yuan, a judge in the case of sentencing, Zhao Sheng, a criminal presiding judge, Toarey Yang, Fu Pu, a judge in the case of torture, a judge in the case of Daoshan, a judge in the case of Zhu Shun, a judge in the case of writing books, and a judge in the case of lethal injection.

So the judge's position is lower than Yan's. To sum up, Zhong Kui > Yan > Judge.

In addition to China, there are Japanese Zhong Kui believers who believe that Zhong Kui can defeat the blister god (the god of smallpox). Shinichi Saito, a famous Japanese general during the Warring States Period, is also known as "Zhong Kui after the Vietnam War". During World War II, the Japanese fighter Ki-44 Zhong Kui was a single-seat fighter. At that time, the Japanese Empire was preparing to go to war with the United States, and Zhong Kui had the intention to deal with foreign devils.