49-120 AD) wrote Nu Jie after 40 years of loyalty to her dead husband, and intended for the book to show her daughter how a woman ought to behave. Ban Zhao exhorted women to "think of themselves last in all situations" (bei ruo xia ren).
至於班昭的《女誡》，則是守寡多年的班昭寫給自己女兒看的「家訓」。