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Hua Mulan (4 12 -502), a native of Huangpi, Wuhan [1], whose deeds have been passed down to this day, is a heroine in ancient China, loyal and filial, and passed down through the ages on behalf of her father who defeated the invading nation in the army. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty chased her as a "filial general".
The spread of Mulan story should be attributed to the folk song Mulan Ci, but the surname and native place of Mulan are not recorded in the history books.
Hua Mulan's deeds are shown in many literary works, such as movies, TV dramas, song and dance Henan operas, etc.
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Mulan first appeared in a narrative poem "Mulan Ci" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, written in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and originally recorded in Chen's "Ancient and Modern Music Record" in the Southern Dynasties. The monk wise craftsman said in the Record of Ancient and Modern Music: "Mulan is nameless." It was more than 300 words long and was later polished by the literati of Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Xu Wei, a writer in Ming Dynasty, adapted Mulan Poetry into Female Mulan Joining the Army as Father. In the play, she calls herself "My surname is Hua Ming Mulan. When my ancestors went to the Western Han Dynasty, I lived in Wei County, Hebei Province. My father's name is Sangzhi and he has been practicing martial arts all his life. In the past, he was also a famous commander.
"From then on, Mulan's father's name was Hua Arc, her sister's name was Hua Menglian, her brother's name was Hua Xiong, and her mother's name was Hua Yuan. "Female Mulan" in the Qing Dynasty also said: "Although Mulan is detailed in ancient Yuefu. According to the Ming Dynasty, there was a story about Han Zhen's daughter, which was similar to Mulan's story, so Wei changed it. Mulan is unknown. The name Huaming Arc mentioned in the book and the matter of marrying Wang Lang were all invented by Wei. "
Zu Chongzhi's Biography of Historical Records of Huo Zhi and Li Kang's Biography of Historical Records of Huo Zhi all mentioned that Mulan was surnamed Hua. When Mulan's real name was Zhu, Huangpi County Annals in the Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty said: "Mulan, the daughter of Zhu in this county, was from the early Tang Dynasty ... a fake man joined the army instead of his father, ... and her home was still at the foot of Mulan Mountain.
"Shi Jiao Bi Cheng also said:" Mulan, the daughter of Zhu, takes the place of her father. Today, Huangpi County in Huangzhou is 70 miles north, namely Mulan County in Suiyuan. There are Mulan Mountain, Shenlong Hall of the Shogunate and Zhonglie Temple, which are enough to make up for the lack of Yuefu inscriptions. "However, there is a saying that Mulan is surnamed Wei, and there is also a saying that Mulan is surnamed Han. According to "New Tang Book", "Girl Mulan, surnamed Ren".