Song nian zhu gui cheng is the earliest book of the Late Ming Dynasty which narrated the life of Jesus, and also a spiritual text to assist Chinese Christians to recite the Rosary, it is mainly used within the Catholic community. This article will point out that the true author is not João da Rocha as generally thought, but Gaspar Ferreira. In addition, this article will also show that the main source of Song nian zhu gui cheng is the European text Evangelicae historiae imagines, but the last picture probably comes from the Epitome in divae parthenices Mariae historiam from the German printmaker Albrecht Dürer, and it is also influenced by the popular engraving style of the late Ming Dynasty, creating a new narrative style with both Chinese and Western characteristics.