Zhang Hua
The "Admonitions Scroll" was painted to illustrate an eighty-line poetic text written in 292 by the Jin Dynasty official, Zhang Hua (232–300). Zhang Hua wrote his "Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies" () as a didactic text aimed at Empress Jia (257–300), consort of Emperor Hui of Jin (r. 290–301), whose violent and immoral behaviour was outraging the court.