Print from Zhou Han’s pamphlet, In Accord with the Imperial Edict: Complete Illustrations of t
Print from Zhou Han’s pamphlet, In Accord with the Imperial Edict: Complete Illustrations of the Heretical Religion (c. 1890).Zhou Han (1842-1911) was a Confucian scholar who tenaciously resisted the intrusion of Western / Christian ideas into Chinese society.Top: “The Devils (foreigners) Worshipping the Hog (Jesus).”The term used for God / Christ by the Roman Catholics is T’ien Chu, 天主. In the cartoon Chu, 主, for Lord is changed into chu, 豬, for pig, and thus T’ien Chu, 天主, the Lord of Heaven, becomes T’ien chu, 天豬, the Celestial Hog.Right: “This is the beast which the foreign devils follow; the hog’s skin and bristles are still upon him.”Left: “If human beings will take the Celestial Hog for a God, how will they retain the human countenance?”The characters on the Hog are Ye-su, 耶穌, the term used in China for Jesus. The pig’s worshipers are two foreigners, the one marked Teacher, and the other Disciple. The “green hat” (allusion to the hats they are wearing) is a Chinese metaphor for a cuckold, more commonly called Wang- pah, 耶穌, i.e. one who forgets all the eight virtues. For the same reason all words referring to the foreigners, the foreign religion, and the Christian converts, are in the text printed with green ink. To call a man a Wang-pah, or Luh-mau (green-hat), is the greatest insult. -- source link
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