Si Ming Justice Court in Shanghai

喬治穆許 「三和弦」 Muche, Georg Dreiklang, 1920 75 x 53cm Si Ming Law Court in Shanghai, where the Chinese won the first legal case against the colonial power system 胭紗 送儂一捧芍藥花 那是揚州金枝玉葉女兒情 送君一把三弦琴 請彈東林士子國破山河恨 Give the girl a bouquet of Shao Yao Peony flowers That is the golden bough and jade leaf daughters love Give the gentleman a Three String instrument Please play The Donglin Party intellectual patriotic song about now the Ming lost to Qing At end of the Ming Dynasty, the court was controlled by the eunuchs who persecuted many people. Huang Zhong Xi was the late Ming scholar who fought against the Qing tribe invaders. He was affiliated with the DongLin Party, called the little Donglin, and took resistance in Si Ming mountain area. Dong Lin Party, East Forest Party, opposed corrupt eunuchs, and was a reform party that grouped the intellectuals together. First, they resisted against the Qing invaders. In late 1800s, they resisted against the French concession police brutality. The French tore down a wall, and the people put up a legal fight in the Si Ming Law court in Shanghai, which was the first case of Chinese against colonial power. Si Ming Public Court is an Ancestral old social establishment, with an ancestral hall, and banking. It was the first winning case against the French colonials in Shanghai or in entire China.