This poem is from Mulan Poetry. Mulan poem is a Yuefu folk song sung in the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. Guo Maoqian's Yuefu poems are classified as "a cross-blowing song, and a cross-blowing song between the two ancient friends", which is called "Yuefu Shuangzhen" together with Peacock Flying Southeast.
This is a long narrative poem, which tells the story of a girl named Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army for her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, and just wanted to go home and reunite. She warmly praised the woman's brave and kind qualities, her enthusiasm for defending the country and her fearless spirit.
The whole poem conceives the legendary story of Mulan with "Mulan is a girl", which is full of romance; The details are cleverly arranged. Although it is about war, it is more about life scenes and children's modality, full of life breath. Using questions and answers, parallelism, antithesis and intertextuality to describe the modality and psychology of characters is vivid and meticulous, with strong artistic appeal.
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Mulan Poetry is a long narrative folk song in northern China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is also a Yuefu poem. It tells the story of Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army instead of her father, fought in the battlefield, returned to the DPRK in triumph, made meritorious deeds, and resigned and returned to China, which is full of legend.
This poem originated from the folk, and in the long-term spread process, it has traces of being polished by later literati, but it basically retains the characteristics that folk songs are easy to remember and recite. The whole poem is divided into six paragraphs, written in chronological order. Mulan has been writing for more than ten years, from preparing for the army to going out to war, from battlefield life to triumph.