From ancient times to now, both locals and foreigners think that Mulan is only a character in literary works, but she is not. The reason is that Mulan has only been seen in Mulan Ci, and there is no official record, just the legend of unofficial history and so on. The author believes that this view is inaccurate. First, Mulan was not first seen in Mulan Ci, but was mentioned long before Mulan Ci came out. As everyone in the circle knows, "Mulan Ci" first appeared in the book "Ancient and Modern Music Record" edited by Shi Zhijiang of the Chen Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the famous scholar He Chengtian (370-447) who was born in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty and the early Southern and Northern Dynasties has already mentioned Mulan in the book "Surname Garden". As early as more than 100 years before the publication of Mulan Ci, Mulan was mentioned. How can we say that Mulan was first seen in Mulan Ci? The second is a temple dedicated to Mulan, which appeared at the latest in the Tang Dynasty. Du Mu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, went to Mulan Mountain and wrote a poem called Mulan Temple. In China, there are no temples for characters in pure literature. No matter what temple is built, it has its original incarnation. Therefore, Cheng Dachang, a scholar in Song Dynasty who once suspected that Mulan Ci was an allegory, saw Du Mu's poems and marveled in his book "Performing Fanlu": "Look at Du Mu's poems, which have both the appearance of a temple and the appearance of a girl, then it is a real person! Not the same! " Thirdly, in China's ancient poems, especially in a historical period before and after Mulan Ci appeared, almost all the so-called "literary images" in poems have their true prototypes. Therefore, we can't judge ancient times by modern literary creation. We can boldly say that Mulan did exist in Chinese history.