The world is inherently shaped in favour of men, and it is futile for women to try as hard as they can in such a world. It is not right to aim to be a woman like a man in such a world; one has to let the social structure itself, which naturally holds good cards against men, get the better of them. So, her inspiration was mainly the statue of Venus of Villendorf, made between 25,000 and 30,000 years ago. Because of its exaggerated feminine features, it is considered by many to be an image of the god of fertility, the Mother Earth.

This feminine symbol of the breasts and buttocks is the ideal male expectation of women in a patriarchal social structure. She repeatedly portrays this image in order to satirise the symbolisation of women in today's patriarchal society. Using 'anthropology' as a model, Zhang has collected ethnic myths, totems, folklore, texts and paintings from all over the world, depicting the dilemma of symbolised women in a patriarchal social structure, in an attempt to use the paintings as a mirror to reflect on the current situation in society and cause people to reflect on this extremely unequal social structure between the sexes. The main models are the Dongba script from south-west China, Chinese oracle bones, geometric patterns on clay pots unearthed from tombs and rock paintings from around the world.