Ask the girl what she is thinking, ask the girl what she is thinking. The girl didn't miss anything, and the girl didn't recall anything. I saw the draft documents last night and learned that the king was recruiting on a large scale. There are so many conscription documents, each with his father's name on it. My father has no adult sons, and Mulan has no brothers. Mulan was willing to buy saddles and horses and went out for her father from then on.
Buy horses in the east market, saddles and cushions under saddles in the west market, chews and reins in the south market and whips (whips) in the north market. In the morning, I said goodbye to my parents and set off. In the evening, I camped by the Yellow River. I can't hear my parents calling my daughter, but I can hear the rushing of the Yellow River. Say goodbye to the Yellow River in the morning and arrive at the foot of Heishan (Yanshan) in the evening. I can't hear my parents calling for my daughter, but I can hear the chirping of Hu Bing steeds in Yanshan.
March Wan Li to the battlefield, cross the pass and climb mountains, as fast as flying. The sound of knocking came from the cold wind in the north, and the cold moonlight reflected the armor of the soldiers. After countless battles, some soldiers died, and some returned triumphantly ten years later.
Back to the emperor, the emperor will sit in the palace. Mulan was awarded the highest prize and won more than 100 gold medals. The son of heaven asked Mulan what she wanted. Mulan didn't want to be an official in Shangshu Province, but wanted to take me back to my hometown on a swift horse.
When parents heard that their daughter was back, they helped each other out of the city (to see Mulan). When my sister heard that she was back, she dressed up across the door. When I heard that my sister was back, I sharpened my knife and slaughtered pigs and sheep. Open the door in the east of my boudoir, sit on the bed in the west of my boudoir, take off my shirt, put on my girl's clothes, arrange my hair as soft as a cloud in front of the window, and stick a yellow flower on my forehead in front of the mirror. When we went out to meet our campers, they were very surprised: we walked together for twelve years and didn't even know Mulan was a girl.
When the rabbit's ears are hanging in the air, the male rabbit's feet often move, and the female rabbit's eyes often squint (so it is easy to tell). When two rabbits, male and female, run side by side, how can we tell which is the male and which is the female?
Long narrative folk songs in the Northern Dynasties. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been different records and disputes about its age and author. It first appeared in Wen Yuan Mulan Song written by Wei in Tang Dynasty. The title of Ancient Wen Yuan is Mulan Poetry, which means "Tang Poetry". According to the poem "Khan is a great warrior" in Fan Yanlu written by Cheng Dachang in Song Dynasty, Mulan's life is either Sui or Tang. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yan Yu's poems about Canglang thought that "the new moon spreads gold, and the cold light shines iron clothes" and so on, "it is too white, and it must not be a poem of Han and Wei Dynasties". Since then, it has been said that people in the Sui and Tang Dynasties wrote this poem, but in the Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian pointed out that this poem was not written by Wei, but that Wei "got it from the people". Yuefu Poetry Collection is included in Song of Crossing Drum and Beam, also known as Mulan Poetry. Cloud is an "ancient poem", quoting Chen Shizhi's "Records of Ancient and Modern Music" and saying: "Mulan, nameless." According to "Old Tang Shu Wei Chuan", Wei was an observer in western Zhejiang and an envoy in Huainan (Huang Tingjian said that Wei Renshuo was my ambassador, which was wrong). According to the records of Old Tang Qu, it can be seen that there are "Xianbei Qu in Yan and Wei Dynasties" and more "Khan Ci" in Yuefu Qu in Liang and Northern Dynasties. So Mulan poems may be Xianbei songs. Spread in Jiangnan and translated into Chinese. He entered Yuefu in the Liang Dynasty and later dispersed among the people. It was rediscovered by Wei in the Tang Dynasty, and it is planned to become Mulan Song (Wenyuan). As for the antithetical poem Shuo Qi, it is used in the poems of Qi and Liang, and it is the trace of literati's processing. Therefore, most modern scholars believe that Mulan poetry originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty and was written by the people.
Mulan Poetry describes Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army instead of her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, and refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, which obviously also impacted the prejudice of the patriarchal society. It is a "fantastic poem" (the source of Shen Deqian's ancient poems), full of romance, with a vigorous and simple style, which basically maintains the characteristics of folk songs.
The ideological content and artistic skills of Mulan's poems have a far-reaching influence on later generations. The music history of the Song Dynasty, Taiping Yuhuan Ji, records that Huanggang County (now Huangpi, Hubei Province) has eight scenic spots of Mulan, such as Mulan Mountain, Mulan Grassland, Mulan Lake and Mulan Tianchi, and cites Du Mu's Mulan Temple as evidence. Later, according to local records, in Bozhou, Anhui, Shangqiu, Henan, Wanxian, Hebei and other places, temples were built to worship Mulan, which reflected the far-reaching influence of Mulan's poems. Until today, the image of Mulan on the stage screen still inspires people's patriotic enthusiasm. At the same time, long before Wei wrote Caotang, Du Fu's poem Caotang described the happy scene of moving to Caotang, which obviously absorbed the expression of Mulan's poem describing the family welcoming Mulan back.
Mulan poetry has a unique style of Yuefu folk songs. Opening questions and answers are common in folk songs. The language of Mulan's poems is vivid and simple, with few carvings and axes: "My younger brother hears my sister coming and sharpens his knife to pigs and sheep", which has been circulated for thousands of years and is still a spoken language that people relish; Except for the elegant six sentences in Wanli Qurongji, the rest have retained the form and style of folk songs, and the use of chain, question and answer, parallelism and overlap is almost the same as that of folk songs. And the language is rich and colorful. As far as the original rhyme is concerned, most of the poems of Long Yuefu change their rhyme every few words, and few of them rhyme to the end. Only in this way can the syllables of the performed songs be complicated and changeable. "Mulan Poetry" has changed seven rhymes, which can also be said to be seven kinds of songs: "Haw, haw, haw ... women have no memory"; "I bought a saddle in the west market ... but I heard the Yellow River splashing"; "the night stays on the black mountain ... but I listen to Yanshan Hu riding a horse"; "Wan Li went to Rongji ... a strong man returned in ten years"; "The son of heaven sat in the hall ... I didn't know Mulan was a girl"; "Mother rabbit's eyes are blurred ... can Ann tell whether I am a man or a woman? "This is equivalent to writing seven songs under one topic. The difference is that this is a complete song. The number of sentences in each rhyme of many folk songs is relatively neat, while the number of sentences in Mulan's poems is rather uneven. Because it was once sung by musicians, it was included in Yuefu songs of past dynasties, and until now there are still storytellers singing Mulan poems.
This poem attracted readers to the scene it described from the beginning. Mulan's usual "loom sound" in weaving has been replaced by her sigh. The reason is that Khan was an autumn soldier on the battlefield. His father is in the army and there is no eldest son at home. How could he not make Mulan anxious and depressed? But she finally made a brave choice of "willing to be a pommel horse for the city and sign for the Lord from now on"
Mulan's joining the army was forced and illegal. Once she made the choice of "joining the army", her attitude was positive, which vividly showed her initiative and determination from the busy scene of shopping around. Mulan is far away from her hometown for the first time, and the mountains and rivers in a foreign land will touch her homesickness. The description of this in the poem is sincere and very touching. Joining the army gave Mulan the opportunity to show her wisdom and talent as well as men. After ten years of war, she changed from a kind, enthusiastic and capable girl to a "strong man" who made meritorious deeds. What a big change!
The war won victory and peace. The environment has changed. Where will Mulan go? She has unspeakable difficulties. Because she is a woman, she doesn't deserve the honor she deserves in this grand ceremony of rewarding merit. She had to resign as a knight and set foot on the only way to return home. Anonymous authors take this for granted. Therefore, the happy reunion of Mulan's flesh and blood is described in a cheerful style, which allows her to appear in front of her companions as a woman after "being a window-keeper and putting flowers in front of the mirror". What is valuable to the author is the metaphor that rabbits run together and men and women are inseparable, which shows that women are not inferior to men in wisdom, courage and talent if they have the opportunity to display their ambitions.
This description of Mulan's return from the army shows the author's progressive ideological tendency. The problem is how to correctly analyze this social phenomenon reflected by the author. Some people think that Mulan returned to her hometown because she didn't want fame and fortune, which reflected the true nature of working people's love for labor. In my opinion, this view is incorrect.
In the ancient feudal society of China, "women are men", besides Mulan, there was also a Huang Chongjia. Xie Fangde told their stories as anecdotes in Miscellanies of Bihu. Mulan is a heroine who died in battle, and she "returns without knighthood"; Huang Chongjia was a woman of Shu in the Five Dynasties. She disguised herself as a man and worked as a retainer in Zhou Xianggong's mansion in Shu State. Because she is "sensitive to being an official, and small officials are afraid to bring clothes", Zhou Yao took a fancy to her and "wanted a wife and a daughter". Huang Chongjia was bored, so he had to explain that he was a woman and walked away.
Under the feudal system, women disguised as men were regarded as abnormal phenomena. "The man is the master outside, and the woman is the master inside" is the commandment of feudal ethics. Mulan can secretly join the army instead of her father in an emergency and give full play to her potential wisdom and talents. Otherwise, the notoriety of the so-called "Hunji Chen Si" will fall on her. Neither Mulan nor the author of Mulan Poetry can change this fate.
It is difficult to get rid of the shackles imposed on women by feudal ethics. Wang Jun, a poetess in Qing Dynasty, felt that she couldn't show her talents like Hua Mulan and Chongqi in Partridge Sky ("Hua Mulan's devotion to Xu Qi is out of the question"), so she had to let the heroine enter the artistic stage in the dream of playing Ci ("so that she could explain her worries to the dream") to express her life ideal buried in her heart.
It can be seen that Mulan's return to her hometown is by no means a question of not wanting fame and wealth, nor a question of loving labor, but an inevitable product of oppression and discrimination against women in feudal society.
It is impossible for the author of Mulan Poetry to be clearly aware of this. However, his tortuous life path of peace-war-peace from Mulan unconsciously reflects the miracle created by Mulan under special conditions and enthusiastically praises it. This is the expression of the author's loyalty to real life, and it is also related to the thoughts and feelings of the working people.