Cisia Wuyi comes from the Bao Gong stories told by a storyteller named Shih Yukun, in the Cing Dynasty. They are a group of seven sia, including the protagonist, nansia Jhan Jhao, and the sia group of five from the Siankong Island. They came together to help the righteous official Bao Jheng and Yan Chasan to track down criminals, arrest corrupted officials and evil gentry, and bring peace to the society. The final episode of this book is about how they defeated the rebellion of the Prince of Siangyang.

      This novel emphasizes the positive impression of the cooperation between the sia and the righteous officials. It absolutely changes the idea that sia always challenged the law. Instead, in this book, the sia were the guardian angels who stood on the side of the law and remedied the defects of the law.

      In the development of the Chinese sia stories this novel is in fact a milestone. The positive side of the sia is fully exploited, the primitive yi, which is sometimes more like indignity, is replaced by righteousness. This image of the sia becomes standard, and the later wusia novels mostly have the mature sia as their protagonists.

      Cijian Shihsan Sia was written at the end of the Emperor Guangsyu's reign. And this story is about the "ci zih," eleven characters, and "shihsan sheng," thirteen characters all together twenty jian sia helping a group of sia led by Syu Minggao and Yijhih Mei, to defeat the rebellion of the Prince Ning in the period of the the Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty.

      Similar to Cisia Wuyi, the sia are under the command of the righteous official and philosopher Wang Shouren. On the other hand, the twenty jian sia have unbelievable skills. They are like the sia described in the Tang chuanci short stories, half-human and half-gods. In other words, the conception of sia and jian sia in this book are different. This difference influenced the later novelist Pingjiang Busiao Sheng and his book Jianghu Cisia Jhuan.