Who is the author of Mulan Poetry?

The author is anonymous, and the editor is Guo Maoqian, selected from Yuefu Poetry edited by Guo Maoqian in Song Dynasty.

Mulan Poetry is a long narrative folk song in the Northern Dynasties. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been different records and disputes about its origin and author. It first appeared in Wen Yuan Mulan Song written by Wei in Tang Dynasty. In Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian pointed out that this poem was not written by Wei, but that Wei "got it from the people" (after the poem of Mulan in Yuefu).

Generation age

There are always different opinions about the time when Mulan Ci was written, but Ancient and Modern Music Records recorded Mulan Ci at the earliest, which proves that Mulan Ci was written not later than Chen. In the poem, the son of heaven is called "Khan", and the battle place is in the north, so the birth area is in the Northern Dynasties. There are some words in the poem, such as "Farewell to the Yellow River, Go to Montenegro at dusk" and "Listen to the hustle and bustle of Yanshan Mountain". Killing Tiger Mountain in Montenegro is in the southeast of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, not far from the Yellow River. Yanshan Mountain refers to Yanran Mountain, that is, today's Mongolians and the State Bank of Ai Shan.

Accordingly, the war in Mulan's poems happened between the Northern Wei Dynasty and Rouran. Rouran is a nomadic country in the north. During the period of 158 (394-552), it fought many wars with Northern Wei, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi.

And the most important battlefield, it is Montenegro, Ran Yan mountain. In the second year of the Northern Wei Dynasty (429), Emperor Wu Tai of the Northern Wei Dynasty made a moderate northern expedition, that is, "the car drove out of the host country and went straight to Montenegro" and "the north went out of Yanran Mountain, three thousand miles north and south" ("The Story of the North Creep", the creep was mild). Most scholars believe that Mulan poetry originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty.