Mulan's poem is the story of Ben Lan joining the army as his father, but why simply write about his years of fighting life?

The language of literary works should be concise and appropriate, neither greedy nor simple. If we read Mulan's poems carefully, we can realize this truth. "Mulan Poetry" revolves around the image of Mulan. It sometimes "cherishes ink like gold" and is extremely simple; Sometimes, I will "splash ink like water" and try my best to arrange. For example, "Wan Li comes to Rongji, and the mountains are flying. The breath of the new moon is golden, and the cold light is iron. The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years. " There are only six sentences and thirty crosses, which sum up Mulan's fighting career of defending the country for more than ten years. How simple! Two of them are about the north wind and the sound of fighting; The moonlight reflected the snow and Mulan woke up. Through the description of the environment, scenery and atmosphere, Mulan's homesickness complex and warrior temperament of sticking to her post are rendered. Although life in the frontier is hard and there are only intermittent struggles around, Mulan and her friends are still dressed in armor and ready to fight for the motherland. This scene is very vivid (the sound of the north wind, the sound of fighting) and colorful (moonlight, the color of snow, the reflection of iron). How intriguing! It can be said that a word is worth a thousand dollars, and a word cannot be reduced. The four sentences of "buy horses in the east market, prepare saddles in the west market, prepare reins in the south market, and prepare whips in the north market" are all twenty sentences, just repeating the content of "prepare pommel horses in the city" above. At first glance, how dull and burdensome it feels! But after careful taste, I found it very flexible and concise. Because of this exaggeration, Mulan and her family were thoroughly prepared for military uniforms. As Liu Dabai said in "Old Poems and New Stories": "The whole four-line sentence looks rigid, but in fact it has distinct layers. Because you can't ride a horse without a saddle, you have to buy a saddle; You can't ride a saddle without a halter, so you have to buy a halter; There is a bridle without a whip, so I can't catch it, so I have to buy a whip. " This way of arranging east, west, south and north in turn is very common in folk songs, but it is especially used in Mulan's poems and is particularly vivid. For example, the following eight sentences are "Say goodbye to parents", the following six sentences are "Parents heard that women are coming", and the two sentences are "The male rabbit's feet are complicated and the female rabbit's eyes are blurred", or by time (dusk), or by generation (parents, sisters, brothers), or by gender (men and women). It is in this stylized narrative that Mulan's poems are interesting and picturesque. In this respect, it is like "splashing ink like water". The whole poem focuses on Mulan's psychological activities before going to war, during the journey and after returning to China, but rarely describes her heroic achievements in the battle. On the surface, it seems that there are more feelings for children than for heroes. However, from the actual effect, all kinds of children's situations described in the poem enrich Mulan's heroic character in many ways, making this image real and moving. For example, "Say goodbye to parents and stay by the Yellow River at dusk. I can't hear my parents calling for a female voice, but I hear the Yellow River splashing. " A picture of a girl homesick really came out. As a daughter, Mulan is very clever. During years of hard campaign life, she can pretend to be a man without being noticed. In the life-and-death struggle in Guanshan, Wan Li, it is even more heroic to be able to make meritorious military service and play Kay's return. Here, loving children and heroism complement each other, don't they?