The image of Fan Lihua first appeared in the Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, An Ruli lay man wrote Three Biographies of the Tang Dynasty, also known as The Biography of Xue Dingshan's Western Expedition to Fan Lihua, and later generations also called The Biography of the Western Expedition. The book tells the story of getting engaged soon, taking a three-day break from Xue and inviting him for three days, which left a deep impression on readers and therefore had a great influence among the people. Some of China's traditional dramas are based on this. Such as Right Horse and Three Hugh Fan Lihua (or Three Invitations to Fan Lihua).

There is a phenomenon in Ming and Qing novels. Many historical novels and the legend of heroes were collected from folk oral legends, which were created and processed into desk books by screenwriters, and then borrowed, re-processed and re-created by ordinary rappers, and passed down from generation to generation. Later, some people organized them into "storytelling novels" and published them in the form of pure prose. In the process from folk stories and novels to rap, and then to "storytelling novels", the stories are more and more refined and the characters are more and more plump.

Fan Lihua in The Complete Biography of the West still has a vague personality and lacks a basis for life. Because of the author's writing style of ghost novels, some plots are absurd and bizarre, such as moving mountains and filling the sea, going into the sky and making arrows.

Flying knives, soul catching bells, tying fairy ropes, etc. There is no achievement in characterization. However, in the later folk rap, Fan Lihua's image has been constantly enriched and developed. Storytellers use realistic creative methods to find the trajectory of the formation, development and change of characters' ideological character from reality, so that the characters are lifelike. Among many storytelling novels, Hao, a famous drummer in Xihe, reshaped the image in Zheng, which is the most representative.

Fan Lihua's image is extraordinary, beautiful and profound, and she embodies the great independent spirit of women in China.