This is a tenancy contract written by Xiaogui Villager Gao Luo in 1798. In 1788, Gao Luo permanently leased his paddy field next to Neighborhood 3, Tumusheng, Laomei River, to a Han tenant farmer Xu Shao-Zhou for 42 ounces of silver. The contract also stipulated that 37.5kg of grain rations must be paid to Gao Luo each year. The plot of land was located next to the modern day Laomei River, Shimen District, New Taipei City . The phrase “permanent lease” in the contract refers to the tenant farmer’s right to farm the land or cease the lease at will, with the landlord having no right to intervene with the land’s direct management. This phenomenon is described by the popular idiom “Only the tenant is allowed to fire the landlord, not vice versa”. At the same time, the transfer, inheritance and bequeathing of the land would not affect the tenant farmer’s right to use the land at all, and this is aptly summed up by the expression “The landlord may change but the tenant remains the same”. In the process of trading land rights between the plain indigenes and Han people, the use of a “permanent lease” symbolizes how the Han’s dominance in land management and distribution shifted from a passive to a more proactive stance. This also explains the loss of land rights by the plain indigenes.