清末以来，家庭革命的风潮伴随着政治革命的浪潮而兴起，恋爱自由、婚姻自由的思想逐渐得到认可。民国初期，社会上的离婚事件逐渐增多并受到广泛关注，“新青年”离弃“旧妻子”的事件逐渐增多。郑振埙离婚事件展现出趋新的青年在文化倾向、爱情观念等多个方面都对旧式的妻子表示不满。在对旧式妻子进行“改良”的努力失败后，很多人选择离婚或停妻再娶。而受制于经济能力与社会言论，被离弃的旧式妻子们或以自杀、出家等激烈行动维持“名节”，或委曲求全维持表面婚姻。离婚自由在实践的过程中为近代女性带来解放权力的同时也造成了新的社会问题。

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the wave offamily revolution has risen along with the wave of political revolution, and the ideas of freedom of love and marriage have gradually been recognized. In the early days of the Republic of China, divorce incidents in the society gradually increased and attracted widespread attention, and the incidents of "new youth" abandoning "old wives" gradually increased. Zheng Zhenxun's divorce shows that young people are dissatisfied with old-fashioned wives in many aspects such as cultural tendencies and love concepts. After efforts to "improve" old-fashioned wives failed, many chose to divorce or suspend their wives and marry again. Constrained by economic ability and social discourse, the abandoned old-fashioned wives either committedsuicide or became a monk to maintain their "famous festivals", or resigned themselves to maintain a superficial marriage. Divorce freedom brought liberation power to modern women in the process of practice, but also caused new social problems.