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title: '豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/
description: A colour woodblock print shows four foreign men in green hats and dark coats cutting a foetus from a seated woman in a Chinese courtyard, under a title…
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891.jpg)

# 豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy

A colour woodblock print shows four foreign men in green hats and dark coats cutting a foetus from a seated woman in a Chinese courtyard, under a title that calls Christianity the 'pig' sect. The staged atrocity against a woman, with margin verses urging readers to 'sweep away the heresy' and 'exterminate the devils', is the fear appeal; the pig and devil labels are the name-calling.

- **Date:** 1891
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Anti-Christian literati circle of Hunan (picture set attributed to Zhou Han); no publisher named on the sheet
- **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia)
- **Country:** [Qing China](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=qing-china)
- **Medium:** [Print](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=print)
- **Issuer type:** [Movement](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=movement)
- **Regime:** [Qing Dynasty](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=qing-dynasty)
- **Leader:** [Guangxu Emperor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=guangxu-emperor)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize)
- **Themes:** [Religion](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=religion), [Race and ethnicity](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=race-ethnicity), [Health](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=health)
- **Event:** [Anti-missionary riots, 1891](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=anti-missionary-riots-1891)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (scan of a Princeton University Library copy)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cause_of_the_Riots_in_the_Yangtse_Valley,_1891.pdf), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (1891; Commons tags PD-US-expired, PD-old-70, PD-old-100) Zhou Han (周漢), 1891; scan via lib.exchristian.hk, hosted on Wikimedia Commons (page 14 of the PDF)

## Text on the object

Original (Chinese (traditional characters)) · checked against a source transcription

```
豬叫取胎圖

[left margin] 个个恨無良亡八。快掃邪滅鬼。隄防豬叫欺天。
[right margin] 人人愁不孝有三。多積善求神。保佑麟兒下地。

4 / 四 [plate number]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Picture of the Pig Sect Taking a Foetus

[left margin] Everyone hates the unscrupulous wretch (亡八, a vulgar insult). Quickly sweep away the heresy, wipe out the devils, and guard against the Pig Sect insulting Heaven.
[right margin] Everyone worries that there are three ways of being unfilial. Pile up good deeds and pray to the gods to protect the birth of a fine son.

4 / four [plate number]
```

Read from the Chinese sheet and checked against the contemporary English translation printed on the facing page of the same scan (which renders 亡八 as 'cuckold' and 叫 as 'Sect'). The English above is FRAME's own literal rendering.

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