Mulan is a new ideal female image in the patriarchal culture.
Mulan is a product of patriarchal culture. Regarding the image of Mulan, the "History of Chinese Literature" edited by Mr. Yuan Xingpei analyzed it this way: ""Mulan Poetry" successfully created the immortal artistic image of Mulan. Mulan She is a young girl in a boudoir and a brave heroine. When her motherland needed her, she stepped forward to join the army in place of her father. She disguised herself as a man and galloped on the battlefield for more than ten years and made great contributions. After returning from victory, she also She declined the official position and returned home, showing her simplicity and noble sentiments. She loved her relatives and her motherland, integrating her love for her relatives and her motherland. Mulan's image is the embodiment of the people's ideals. She embodies the hard work of the Chinese nation. The excellent qualities of kindness, wit, bravery, fortitude and simplicity are a flesh-and-blood and humane heroic image deeply rooted in the vast land of northern China, which is especially valuable in the feudal society where men are superior to women. "[1] The textbook is right. The character image of Mulan is very comprehensive, but the problem is that these image elements are just flatly listed and simply collaged together, lacking dominant features. Hegel believes that "there should be one main aspect in the particularity of character as the ruling aspect", which is the personality that penetrates everything and integrates everything into a whole. This personality is what is said. The same source of behavior, from which every sentence, and even every thought, and every characteristic of behavior is derived. ""All the models recognized by the world have this "general characteristic", and the higher the taste of the model, the more this general characteristic. The more distinctive the characteristics." [2] In the explanation of "History of Chinese Literature", Mulan's image lacks exactly this dominant characteristic. It is precisely because of the different understandings and understandings of the dominant characteristics of Mulan's image that many articles stick to their own opinions. Some articles capture Mulan's heroic feat of joining the army on behalf of her father and galloping on the battlefield, and think that they are praising the legendary heroine and expressing the theme of "who said women are inferior to men"; some highlight Mulan's desire and love for a peaceful life, and think it is counterproductive. Some of them highlight Mulan's selfless dedication to the family, and some think it is a tribute to Mulan's filial piety, and so on. These views highlight a certain element of Mulan's image, but ignore others, resulting in a lack of integrity and organicity in the character's image. For this reason, we need to re-examine the character elements presented in the poem and straighten out the structural relationship between them in a specific historical and cultural context, so as to accurately understand the character Mulan and grasp the theme of the poem.
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