Shi Shuo Xin Yu may well be the only classical Chinese work that devotes a whole chapter to the various physical appearances of men, notes Chang Pei-pei, a professor of Chinese at National Taiwan University.
像《世說新語》特闢一篇〈容止篇〉來標舉各種男性容貌的古代典籍，「在中國恐怕只此一本了！」