"After a hundred battles, a general dies, and after ten years, a strong man returns" comes from Mulan's poem.
Mulan Poetry is a folk song in the Northern Dynasties, and Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poetry in the Song Dynasty is included in the Song of Cross Blowing. This is a long narrative poem, which tells the story of a girl named Mulan who disguised herself as a man, joined the army for her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, and just wanted to go home and reunite.
Enthusiastically praised the women's brave and kind quality, the enthusiasm for defending the country and the fearless spirit. The whole poem conceives the legendary story of Mulan with "Mulan is a girl", which is full of romance; The details are cleverly arranged. Although it is about war, it is more about life scenes and children's modality, full of life breath.
Describing the characters' modality, using questions and answers, parallelism, antithesis, intertextuality and other methods to describe the characters' psychology is vivid and meticulous, which makes the works have strong artistic appeal.
There are always different opinions about the time when Mulan Ci was written, but according to the earliest records of Mulan Ci in Ancient and Modern Music Records, it can be proved that Mulan Ci was written not later than Chen. In the poem, the son of heaven is called "Khan", and the battle place is in the north, so the birth area is in the Northern Dynasties. There are some words in the poem, such as "Farewell to the Yellow River, Go to Montenegro at dusk" and "Listen to the hustle and bustle of Yanshan Mountain".
Killing Tiger Mountain in Montenegro is in the southeast of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, not far from the Yellow River. Yanshan Mountain refers to Yanran Mountain, that is, today's Mongolians and the State Bank of Ai Shan. Accordingly, the war in Mulan's poems happened between the Northern Wei Dynasty and Rouran.
Rouran is a nomadic country in the north. During the period of 158 (394-552), it fought many wars with Northern Wei, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi. And the most important battlefield, it is Montenegro, Ran Yan mountain. In 429, Emperor Taizu of the Northern Wei Dynasty made a moderate northern expedition, that is, "driving out of the house, heading straight for Montenegro", "Yanran in the north, three thousand miles north and south." ("Northern History, Biography of Creeping", crawling is soft. )
This poem was included in Yuefu Poetry Collection and widely circulated in the Tang Dynasty, as evidenced by the Mulan Song that Wei planned to write. Therefore, most scholars believe that the folk song Mulan Poetry originated in the late Northern Dynasty.
Mulan Poetry is a long narrative folk song in northern China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is also a Yuefu poem. It tells the story of Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army instead of her father, fought in the battlefield, returned to the DPRK in triumph, made meritorious deeds, and resigned and returned to China, which is full of legend.
This poem originated from the folk, and in the long-term spread process, it has traces of being polished by later literati, but it basically retains the characteristics that folk songs are easy to remember and recite.
References:
Mulan Poetry-Baidu Encyclopedia