The figures of women disguised as men have both feminine beauty and literati stylization at the same time,so they accord with aesthetic needs of female literati stylization and male feminization.

The emergence and the development of the themes of women disguised as men in Chinese classical literature has their given social historic background, which is closely related to the status and circumstances of the women in their actual life and follows the course of history in the pattern of the worsening-loosening-re-controlling of the oppression of the feudal rites.