Lin Pao-chun notes, "Especially from the late Qing dynasty onwards, chivalric novels began to incorporate love stories." Lin, who has also examined changes in the roles of the female knights-errant, says that female characters were as common as male in the early days of the genre.
「尤其清末之後，武俠小說大量加入情愛情節，讓主角徘徊在情愛之中，」曾經研究女俠角色變化的林保淳表示，女性在武俠文學中出現甚早，份量不亞於男性。