One was Lie Nu Zhuan, by Liu Xiang, and the other was Nu Jie, by Ban Zhao. Every book written about women in the succeeding two millennia has adopted the conceptual framework of one or the other of these two seminal works.
此後兩千年，關於女子生活的書籍，不仿《列女傳》，就仿《女誡》體裁。