She intentionally shows all of the oppression of women under traditional feudalism and describes how, with the changing of the times, restraints on women were gradually loosened.
張戎在這部傳記中很明顯地傳達了一些女性主義的思想，她著意刻畫女性在傳統封建制度下所受的逼害；也描寫在時代的變遷之下，女性所受的束縛，逐漸放鬆了。