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This study fix on< Jade Calendar>.< Jade Calendar>is a kind book once shaped and spread the believe in hell during the modern history of China. As a kind book,< Jade Calendar>emphasize punishing crime, and show terrible sight of hell in order to express comeuppance.< Jade Calendar>includes many illustration. There are four main subject:Guiding ghost, Yama trial, excruciation, the six great divisions in the wheel of karma.Thewas popular during the Qing dynasty and the Republic of China. People printed privately and presented them to the others. At that time, printing kind book was a good deed. People believed that they would avoid excruciation in the hell by doing printing and presenting it. The size of is small and it is easy to take along. Folk artists painted illustrations after classic painting " Ten Yamas", and they also sketched from nature, transform people and architectures into Yama, assistant officials, devils, instruments of torture, palace, ect. Meanwhile, images bring various meanings into this book which come down to many levels of society. Therefore, both for individuals and whole culture,wasn't a book only ask people to be kind, it contained multiple psychological impacts.