All the way up to Shisan Mei of the Ming dynasty's Tales of Male and Female Heroes, the female characters in these stories were noble and upstanding to a fault. After Gu Mingdao wrote Huang Jiang Nuxia in the late Qing, female knights-errant once again began to walk the martial-arts world.
直到清朝《兒女英雄傳》裡的十三妹，個性也都還亢直特異，俠氣崢嶸。民初武俠名家顧明道寫《荒江女俠》後，女俠行走江湖的故事紛紛重現，但這回女俠卻慢慢改變了江湖體質。