Magical Penis Wine

Victor Steinbok reports:

This made the rounds on Reddit a few times. The screenshot of a 2019 Reddit thread popped up on my FB feed today. It might even come in white and red

Source:  NV Debao Winery Magical Penis Wine

This is not a Chinglish label.  The three large English words at the top of the label are what the three Chinese characters actually say:

shén biān jiǔ

神鞭酒

The first character means "divine; magic(al); spiritual; numinous".

The second character means "whip" or "penis of an animal; pizzle" — in this case it means "penis".

The third character means "alcohol, liquor; brew; wine".

There's also a:

sān biān jiǔ

三鞭酒

(traditional Chinese medicine) “three penis liquor”, a brown-yellow alcoholic beverage made from three kinds of animal penis and used in traditional Chinese medicine to “enhance health”

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So far as I know, the most popular shén biān jiǔ 神鞭酒 ("divinely [efficacious] penis wine) is:

géjiè shén biān jiǔ

蛤蚧神鞭酒

"divinely [efficacious] gecko penis wine"

For an encyclopedia article (in Chinese) on this product, see here.

Shén biān jiǔ 神鞭酒 ("divinely [efficacious] penis wine) is listed in the most renowned traditional Chinese pharmacopeias.

On the problematic nature of the translation of the graph jiǔ 酒 as "wine", see the last three items in the "Selected readings".

Selected readings   

• "Another early polysyllabic Sinitic word" (9/21/21) — gecko
• "Goblet word" (5/30/20)
• "English 'wine, French 'vin', Spanish 'vino'" (8/6/16) — this and the following two posts contain important notes on beer and the vessels for making, storing, and drinking it, including comparisons with similar vessels in the Middle East
• "Let the Beer-Divider Be Chief!" (8/5/09)
• "Don't Drive in the What, er?" (8/4/09)