Northern folk songs, like the Yuefu folk songs of the Six Dynasties, are mostly short in structure, but this "Mulan Poetry" is a long narrative poem. It plays an important role in the history of Chinese poetry development. The poem describes the story of the heroine Mulan who joins the army for her father, and depicts the vivid image and noble quality of Mulan, a heroine. The style of the whole poem is clear and vivid, simple and vigorous, and it can be called an outstanding work of northern folk songs. This poem creates the immortal character of Mulan, which is both legendary and real and moving. Mulan is both a strange woman and an ordinary person, a heroine and a common girl, a vigorous warrior and a beautiful daughter. She is hard-working, kind-hearted, resolute and brave, honest and simple yet smart and lively. She loves her family and serves the country. She does not admire high-ranking officials and generous salaries but loves a peaceful life. For more than a thousand years, the story of Mulan joining the army on behalf of her father has been well-known in our country, and Mulan's image has always been deeply loved by people.
This poem has strong folk song characteristics. The whole poem uses "Mulan is a girl" to conceive the legendary story of Mulan, which is full of romance. The arrangement of traditional and simplified works is very ingenious. Although it is written about war themes, it focuses more on life scenes and the moods of children, which is full of life style. The poem uses questions and answers to depict the psychology of the characters, which is vivid and detailed; it uses numerous parallels and parallelisms to describe the behavioral moods, which is lively; and it uses interesting metaphors to conclude the whole poem, which is evocative. This gives the work a strong artistic appeal.
There are several aspects worth noting in the artistic form of this poem. First, the narrative plot is appropriately detailed. For example, it is very concise when describing the life of the army during the war, while it is very complicated when describing the life before the expedition and after the meritorious service. . This is determined by the author's intention in writing this poem. The author is interested only in the rare fact that Mulan disguised herself as a man and joined the army for her father. The first part describes her anxiety and thoughts just to show that she is a woman, because it is natural and not surprising for men to go to war, but it is unusual for women to go to war. The second part mentioned that "not hearing the mother-in-law's call to a girl" is also to highlight her identity as a woman. The third part describes her unwillingness to be an official, her eagerness to go home, and her various actions after returning home, which further emphasizes that she is a woman.
The detailed arrangement of the entire poem is centered around this intention. Secondly, the author attaches great importance to the portrayal of characters and is good at expressing characters in the process of the generation and resolution of conflicts, so that the characters have distinctive personalities. The third is that the whole poem uses a lot of repetitive and parallel sentence patterns, which not only exaggerates the atmosphere, emphasizes the narrated plot, but also makes the language smooth and charming, reflecting the techniques commonly used in folk songs. Finally, the style of the whole poem is clear and vigorous. , simple and vivid, as Hu Yinglin of the Ming Dynasty said: "The ancient quality of this song is similar to that of the Han and Wei dynasties."
In short, "Mulan Poetry" is a masterpiece of northern folk songs and a milestone in the history of Chinese poetry. A strange flower. It had a great impact on future generations.