Text of the Chorye rite (醮禮) offered to the Seven Ghosts and the Five Gods of Pestilence七鬼五温神醮禮文
云云。注病重輕。惟帝所命。酌人善惡。迺神之權。敢沿機勢之可矜。仰覬正聦之斯諒。赴予戰壘。孰匪勇夫。皆從王事而勤勞。固合天心之保護。何嬰沈頓。莫效奔馳。且一士容失其朝餐。猶欲輟甘而相恤。况大疫多行於軍伍。其能安坐而忍觀。玆展信羞。寔申精禱。庶令凡百從役。無一告疲。釋去宿痾。猶陰雲之廓卷。洗淸汙俗。若春雪之旋消。云云。
And so forth. To make a sickness heavy or light is only what the High Emperor commands, and the reckoning of men's goodness and badness is the gods' own authority. We dare to follow out a plight you may find pitiable, and look up and pray that your right hearing look into it.
Among those who have hurried to my field of battle, who is not a man of courage? All follow the sovereign's business and strive and toil, and are truly fit for the guarding of heaven's own heart. How is it that they fall into deep sickness and can bring forth no fruit of their hastening forward?
Again, if one soldier loses his morning meal, the rest would still take from their own sweets to look after him; how much the more, when a great pestilence goes about much among the soldiers, should I sit at ease and bear merely to look on?
Hereupon we set out sincere offerings and unfold an earnest prayer. We pray that of all who have come out to battle not one be found to say he is worn out; that their laying down of an old sickness be like a shaded cloud clearing wide open; and that the washing clean of a filthy custom be like the spring snow melting at once. And so forth.