The story of Mulan

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, nomadic people in the north constantly harassed the south, and the Northern Wei regime stipulated that each family should send a man to the front. However, Mulan's father was too old and sickly to go to war, and her younger brother was still young, so Mulan decided to join the army instead of her father and began her military life for more than ten years.

It is difficult for many men to go to the border to fight, and it is more difficult for Mulan to hide her identity and kill the enemy with her friends than for ordinary people who join the army.

Fortunately, Mulan finally accomplished her mission and won a great victory decades later. Because of her great contribution, the emperor pardoned her for cheating the monarch, and at the same time believed that she was capable of serving in the court and holding an official position. But Mulan refused, because she had an old father to take care of, and asked the emperor to let her go back to China to make compensation and honor her parents.

Hua Mulan, an ancient national heroine in China, was loyal, filial and righteous. She is famous for joining the army for her father and defeating the countries invaded by the north. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty named her "General Filial Piety" and set up a shrine to commemorate her, which had a far-reaching influence all over the world. Mulan is respected by the people of China, and her deeds are shown in many literary works, such as movies, TV plays, singing and dancing Henan operas, etc.

On the one hand, the story of Hua Mulan joining the army as her father represents the filial piety of her children, on the other hand, it reflects the background of the war at that time, and on the other hand, it promotes the idea that "who says women are inferior to men", which has a good position in China's poetry system. No wonder it tortured us for a whole childhood.

Mulan Ci can be found in Yuefu Poetry Collection, but the earlier story was recorded in Yuan Dynasty.

Mulan Ci is also recorded in the Yuan Dynasty's Dialectical Records of Filial Piety, and Mulan joined the army in the Qing Dynasty.

Earlier, it was recorded in the Sui Dynasty. It is said that a woman named Hua Mulan disguised herself as a man to resist the enemy. In order to commemorate her, the ancestral temple of Hua Mulan was built in Yingguo Town.