Du Shiniang Sinking the Treasure Chest in Anger was one of the most important works in the history of modern Chinese literature and was regarded as one of the highest achievements of the vernacular short story. This evaluation could be traced back to the 1930s. At that time, literary critics and sociologists believed that Du Shiniang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest had reached an extremely high level in terms of language use, plot construction, and character image. It was a classic of modern Chinese short stories. Since then,'Du Shiniang Sinking Treasure Chest in Anger' had been regarded as one of the treasures of Chinese literature and was widely read.