Ju Jingyi's " Beautiful Scholar " cross-dressing as a man was ridiculed. What should the audience expect a woman to look like?

Ju Jingxian's 'Beautiful Scholar' was ridiculed by the audience. What should a woman dressed as a man look like? In novels, the audience's expectation of a female character disguising as a man often depended on their gender identity and the way the gender characters were expressed. In some novels, the audience would be pleasantly surprised and approve of the fact that female characters could successfully imitate the appearance and behavior of men after disguising themselves as men. In other novels, the female characters looked unnatural or too deliberate after dressing up as men, and the audience complained about it. The audience's reaction to Ju Jingxian's cross-dressing performance in " Beautiful Scholar " was disappointment and ridicule. This was because the characters and settings in the novel matched her real gender, but she successfully adopted a male appearance and behavior, which did not meet the expectations and understanding of the audience for her character. Therefore, the audience's expectation of a woman cross-dressing as a man should be a natural and consistent performance of the character's setting, not an overly deliberate and illogical imitation.