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What is the media cultural significance of the rise of speech communication in the late Qing Dynasty? What social message is revealed? These have always been areas rarely touched upon by communication historians. This book focuses on the preaching and speech activities in the late Qing Dynasty, and takes the social changes in the late Qing Dynasty as the background to explore the reasons for the rise of speech communication and the characteristics of the times contained in this media phenomenon itself. On the basis of systematically sorting out the content, appearance, characteristics and development rules of preaching and speech communication in the Qing Dynasty, through the appearance of drastic changes in these two forms of speech communication in the late Qing Dynasty, we will reveal the changes in social structure and interpersonal relationships during this period, and then explore the interactive mechanism between the evolution of communication media and the reconstruction of social structure and social relationships.