The late Wing-tsit Chan, a renowned scholar associated with, among others, Columbia University and the Academia Sinica, wrote: "If a wife compromises her virtue, this also means the husband has failed in his own behavior.
「婦之失節亦即丈夫之失節，可知節之問題，乃伊川（程頤）之中心問題。」中研院院士陳榮捷在《朱子新探索》書中指出。