The first chapter includes over 60 stories illustrating the author's concept of the ideal woman, and praises a long list of wise and kind-hearted empresses and imperial concubines going back to the dawn of China's recorded history.
書中第一卷「母儀」傳，就肯定有虞氏以來的歷代賢良后妃，並以賢明傳、仁智傳、節義傳、辯通傳等一百多篇文章描繪理想中的女性角色。