The unique Chinese historical experience caused Chinese students in modern society to find the wusia novel a convenient access to Chinese traditions. So they read and learn from the wusia novels. From this point of view the wusia novel genre is represented as the most purely ethnic literary genre.

Conception of Siake and the Development of Its Imagery

     The sia are the central characters, the heroes, of a wusia fiction. This word originally did not imply anyone good or bad, but merely indicated a man of strong, powerful and healthy character and good skill in martial arts. Those people who were called sia were mostly warriors. There were warriors coming from a defeated country, losing their status, and looking for employment offered by the public in the Spring and Autumn Period and the subsequent Warring States Period, when the feudal system was in chaos and battles were endless. Unfortunately the killing skill and the militant attitude which they gained from the military training would block them from being accepted. So they would pick up the skill they learned in the army and fight their ways out against pressures from both the public who followed traditional rules and the feudal government who strictly forbade outlaw forces.

     The stronger the pressure from both the community and government, the stronger the rebellious attitudes of the sia, and the more conflict between them. So rebelliousness was one of the characters of a sia and they would stand against the established society including challenging social morals, rules and even laws. So in one of China's earliest philosophical texts, Hanfei Zih, sia were regarded as one of the five pests, wudu, of a country. And they were accused of breaking laws by using their martial arts skills, sia yi wu fanjin.