在清代与民国初年,曾有不少报刊发行于世,其内容遍涉时事政治、人情风俗等方面,并常常附有精美的图画。其中有些甚至就是以画报的面貌出现,鼎鼎大名的《点石斋画报》即著为例。在这些难得的资料中,隐藏着大量可以被法律史学者用以研究的素材,尽管其表现手法看起来也许比较另类。在这里,我们不仅可以读到“用文字表述的法律史”(几乎每幅图画都配有文字说明),更可以欣赏到以往那些为人们忽略的“用画笔描出的 In the early years of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, quite a number of newspapers and periodicals were released to the world, and their contents were often interdependent on current affairs, human customs and other aspects, often accompanied by beautiful pictures. Some of them are even pictorial appearance, the famous ”Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial“ that with the example. Among these rare materials, there are a large number of materials that can be used for research by legal historians, although their performance may seem different. Here, we can read not only the ”legal history of writing" (almost every picture is accompanied by a written explanation), but also the past that people ignore.