Evils – Chinese Christian Posters https://ccposters.com/en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:20:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://ccposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-ccp-icon-32x32.jpg Evils – Chinese Christian Posters https://ccposters.com/en 32 32 A Poster to Encourage Literacy https://ccposters.com/en/poster/a-poster-to-encourage-literacy/ https://ccposters.com/en/poster/a-poster-to-encourage-literacy/#respond Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:20:11 +0000 https://ccposters.com/?post_type=poster&p=8939 A Poster to Encourage Literacy

English Translation

Big characters: If a tree is to flourish, its roots must be cultivated; if the foundation of a nation is to be secure, the people must be educated.

On the pine root: Republic of China.

On the clothes, stones, and baskets: Illiteracy, Mass Education Movement, Education for the Common People.

On the logo: Literacy through Understanding the Way.

Border: National Christian Council of China, Church Members’ Literacy Movement Picture No. 1

With pencil marks: “A Poster to Encourage Literacy,” “Removing the Stones of Ignorance,” “Fertilizing the Tree (China) with Education for the Masses.”

Simplified Transcription

大字：要树木茂盛，须培植树根；要国基地铁，须教育民众

松根上：中华民国

衣服、石头、篮子上：不识字、平教运动、平民教育

标志上：明道识字

国境：中华全国基督教协进会教友识字运动图画第一幅
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People with worried faces gather around

English Translation

Blind fellow citizens suffer.
What is the enlightening medicine?
Commoners’ education.

National Christian Council of China
Shanghai Yuanmingyuan Road Number 23
Printed by Shanghai Guomin Printing Press

Simplified Transcription

瞎眼同胞
其苦无比
开明妙药
是什么？

平民教育

中华全国基督教协进会
上海圆明园路二十三号
上海国民印刷公司代印

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Center image: Jesus sees Zaccheus in a tree

Outer images: “The four diseases of Chinese,” which are poverty, disease, ignorance, and disorder.

English Translation

27

Four Diseases of the Chinese

Illustrated by the Editorial Experimental Section, Department of Religious Education, Jinling Seminary, Nanjing

Validated by the National Chinese Christian Association for the Promotion of Religious Education

Published by the Christian Literature Society, 128 Buwuyuan Rd., Shanghai

Neighborhood Sunday School Lessons Pictures

Simplified Transcription

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中国人的四种病

编绘者：南京金陵神学院宗教教育科编辑实验室

审定者：中华全国基督教宗教教育促进会

出版兼发行者：广学会（上海博物院路一二八号）

邻童主日学课图书

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The upper image shows how flies look in their growth stages, and the four lower images show various ways of killing them or protected against them.

English Translation

28

How to Kill Flies

Illustrated by the Editorial Experimental Section, Department of Religious Education, Jinling Seminary, Nanjing

Validated by the National Chinese Christian Association for the Promotion of Religious Education

Published by the Christian Literature Society, 128 Buwuyuan Rd., Shanghai

Neighborhood Sunday School Lessons Pictures

Simplified Transcription

28

怎样除灭苍蝇

编绘者：南京金陵神学院宗教教育科编辑实验室

审定者：中华全国基督教宗教教育促进会

出版兼发行者：广学会（上海博物院路一二八号）

邻童主日学课图书

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Two pie charts showing the literacy rate in Japan and China

English Translation

Top Chart: China
Words on black background: non-literate
Words on white background: literate

Bottom chart: Japan
Words on black background: literate
Words on white background: non-literate

National Christian Council of China Shanghai Yuanmingyuan Road Number 23
Printed by Shanghai Guomin Printing Press

Simplified Transcription

上图：中国
识字；不识字

下图：日本
不识字；识字

中华全国基督教协进会

上海圆明园路二十三号
上海国民印刷公司代印

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Figures from the late-Qing period in an opium den

English Translation

Religious Tract Society; 56 Paternoster Row & 65 St. Paul’s Churchyard [London]
M65

Simplified Transcription

Religious Tract Society; 56 Paternoster Row & 65 St. Paul’s Churchyard [London]
M65

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A series of ten questions

English Translation

Please start literacy class for church members

From right to left:
(1) Would you like church members to be enthusiastic Christians?
(2) Would you like church members to be good citizens?
(3) Would you like church members in villages to be progressive farmers?
(4) Would you like both male and female church members to be smart parents?
(5) Would you like both old and young church members to be healthy and happy people?
(6) Would you like the church to be a church where everyone could read and understand the bible?
(7) Would you like the church to be a church where everyone could sing and praise?
(8) Would you like the church to be the center of society?
(9) Would you like the church to be a church that helps the government popularize education?
(10) Would you like the church to be a church where the youth and the adult could cooperate?

Bottom:
Published and printed by National Christian Council of China
Shanghai Yuanmingyuan Road Number 23

Simplified Transcription

请开教友识字班

从右至左：
（一）你愿教友都作热心的基督徒吗？
（二）你愿教友都作良好的公民吗？
（三）你愿乡村的教友都作进步的农民吗？
（四）你愿男女的教友都作聪明的的父母和贤良的子女吗？
（五）你愿老幼的教友都作健康快乐的人吗？
（六）你愿教会成功一个人人都能识字读经的教会吗？
（七）你愿教会成功一个人人都能歌唱赞美的教会吗？
（八）你愿教会成功一个社会中心的教会吗？
（九）你愿教会成成功一个帮助政府普及民众教育的教会吗？
（十）你愿教会成功一个青年与成年合作的教会吗？

底部字：
中华全国基督教协进会行印
上海圆明园路二十三号

]]> https://ccposters.com/en/poster/please-start-a-literacy-class-for-church-members/feed/ 0 The Great Harm of Drinking Alcohol https://ccposters.com/en/poster/drinking-evil/ https://ccposters.com/en/poster/drinking-evil/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:31:30 +0000 http://ccposters.com/?post_type=poster&p=4044 A Container of Alcohol has a Chain around a Man’s Neck

English Translation

Title:

The Great Harm of Drinking Alcohol

Left side:

I do not destroy alcohol, alcohol will destroy me

Right side:

The bad habit of drinking alcohol is really easy to fall into
Consuming one’s household and sweeping away one’s property is even more ignorant
A clear harm is known by everyone
Small harms concealed are innumerable
The disciple of excessive drinking daily sinks deeper into it
To completely lose one’s honorable reputation is to neglect one’s life
Forget one’s virtue and obscure one’s conscience
Cruelty becomes one’s second nature, tyrannical and fearless
A sinister source of calamity that in the end results in burning oneself
A young person who loves him (or her)self will take this as an object lesson

Middle:

The person who drinks alcohol
Like a snake it will entwine your body
Harm your brain
Sap your strength
[Cause you to] suddenly go crazy
[Cause you to] frequently become enraged
[Cause you to] easily make mischief
By no means [should it—alcohol] be involved with your lips

Bottom left:

Picture #3
The harm of drinking alcohol
3 Yuan for every 100
China Baptist Publication Society, Canton China

[In English]
Poster No. 3 Drinking Evil
Price, $3,00 per 100
China Baptist Publication Society, Canton, China

Simplified Transcription

顶端：饮酒之大害

左侧：

我不灭酒酒要灭我 

右侧：

饮酒之习染之诚易
倾家荡产更不自惜
显明之害人皆咸知
隐微之害指不胜屈
酗酒之徒日沉醉之
名誉丧尽荒于生机
忘却道德暗昧天良
残忍成性暴虐无忌
祸水阴毒终致焚身
自爱少年以此为鉴

中间：

饮酒之人
如蛇缠身
害脑筋
减思力
神经陡发
动暴气
作祟易
切勿粘唇

左下：

图画第三号
饮酒之害
每百张价洋三元
广州美华印书局发行 

]]> https://ccposters.com/en/poster/drinking-evil/feed/ 1 The Great Harm of Gambling https://ccposters.com/en/poster/gambling-evil/ https://ccposters.com/en/poster/gambling-evil/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:22:58 +0000 http://ccposters.com/?post_type=poster&p=4042 A Ghost with Dice on his Coat has a Man with a Chain around his Neck

English Translation

Center top: The Great Harm of Gambling

Left: If I don’t destroy gambling, gambling will destroy me.

Right:

Gambling turns into a societal norm, thanks to dices
Playing it day and night saps the spirit, softens the bones and causes paralysis
Wastes mind, destroys homes and. incapacitate the body, it causes the loss of morals in the heart
It turns people into beggars or thieves, and it gets worse day after day until leading them to death
They care not for their father, mother, or wife. Sigh, youth, please be careful of even starting it

Center: Gambling money is the road to poverty, killing the sparrow and playing card games, using clothes as bets, and wasting all the properties, causing wives to be cold.

Poster No. 2 Gambling Evil

Price, $3,00 per 100

China Baptist Publication Society, Canton, China

Simplified Transcription

顶端：赌博之大害

左侧：我不灭赌博赌博就灭我

右侧：

赌博之戏社会风行 寄与摴蒱叶子骰粒

夜以继日精神衰颓 筋骨痿痹竟成瘫痪

阴消暗耗破家废身 道德沦亡心术变换

流为乞丐或成盗贼 日牵日下终入死地

不顾父母妻子受累 呜呼少年请慎厥始

中间：赌钱为耗财之路  打麻雀弄牌玩  典衣当被  化尽财产  连累了妻子受寒

图画第二号

赌博之害

每百张价洋三元

广州美华印书局发行

]]> https://ccposters.com/en/poster/gambling-evil/feed/ 0 The Harm of Hiring Prostitutes https://ccposters.com/en/poster/the-social-evil/ https://ccposters.com/en/poster/the-social-evil/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:54:12 +0000 http://ccposters.com/?post_type=poster&p=4046 A Woman Leads a Man into a Brothel

English Translation

Top: The Harm of Hiring Prostitutes

Right: Lust is the source of all sin. You will lose your reputation and your property. You will injure your body with syphilis. You will waste your money and subject your wife to unspeakable harm.

Bottom: Venereal disease is the biggest danger; it happens at brothels; youth are especially prone to infection. Hiring prostitutes is immoral and damages your reputation, wastes your money and harms your body. You will lose your job and injure your wife. You will have no descendants and your line will become extinct. You will be a good-for-nothing your whole life. We hope that youths will be prudent and remain uninfected by this poisonous root.

On the lantern: brothel

Left: If I don’t destroy lust, lust will destroy me.

Border: Poster No. 6 The Social Evil. Prices $3.00 Per 100 China, Baptist Publication Society, Canton, China

Simplified Transcription


顶端：嫖娼妓之害

右侧：色为万罪之源 丢名誉 破财产 戕身促命 染梅毒 化银钱 遗害妻子难言

底端：花柳病最危险 发生处娼妓馆 少年人尤易染 丧道德坏名誉 伤钱财损肢体 荒职业害妻子 绝后裔灭人伦 致终身成废人 望少年要谨慎 勿传染此毒根

灯笼上：妓馆

左侧：我不灭色色就灭我

图书第六号 嫖娼妓之害 每百张价洋三元 广州美华印书局发行

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