Why did Mulan, the historical Mulan, join the army for her father?

Friends, literature and history is a painting, culture is painting paper, history is countless waves, culture is a river, history is a gorgeous flower, culture is a big garden, history is a star. From a historical perspective, this article explores why Mulan joined the army for her father.

In the famous Northern Dynasty Lefu poem "Mulan Poem" and the movie Mulan, the reason why Mulan joined the army was to join the army for her father, as a woman, Mulan replaced her elderly father, the only adult man in the family to join the army. In the Mulan Poem, it is recorded: "Last night I saw the military post, the Khan ordered the soldiers, and the military book was twelve volumes, and the scroll had the name of the grandfather." Grandpa has no eldest son, Mulan has no eldest brother, and is willing to be a city kurama and march for Grandpa from now on. According to the poem, although Mulan's father was old, he still received a military sticker and wanted to enlist in the army to fight, which was related to the conscription system implemented at that time.

As the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Northern Dynasty during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, in the process of unifying the northern regime conquest, it gradually incorporated most of the ethnic minorities in the north and some han local separatist forces, and after a long period of conquest, gradually formed a mixed military system of tribal soldiers, generational soldiers, and conscription. In order to cope with the counterattack of other forces. Successively, on the border line of the Northern Wei Dynasty, mainly in today's Hebei and Inner Mongolia, the famous Six Towns of northern Wei (Woye, Huaishuo, Wuchuan, Fumian, Rouxuan, and Huaihuang) were established, and the system of "Zhenrong Soldiers" was initially established and improved.

The people of the six towns in the Northern Wei Dynasty all had the obligation to serve the imperial court. According to the Northern Liang document "County Soldier Cao Ciwei Point Military Parade Personnel" unearthed in Turpan, Xinjiang, they (One of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty) once carried out military reclamation in Gaochang in the western region, and the above documents recorded that soldiers needed to prepare their own bows and arrows when they reported for duty, and did not need to be punished. At that time, the northern Wei town, rong, and soldier system, basically the same as the northern Wei contemporaneous, was mainly tun reclamation, the implementation of the military tun system of military households, in wartime military posts to recruit soldiers; Hua Mulan's family is likely to be the military household of the six towns at that time, farming in peacetime, exempted from military service and taxes, and regularly participating in military training. Once a war breaks out and you are placed in the middle of the war, you must prepare your own weapons and equipment, and enlist in the army to participate in the battle.

In summary, the Mulan family may be the family of the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty, who usually reclaim the land and cultivate the land, encounter a conquest, and need to join the army, so in the poem of "Mulan Poems", Before joining the army, Mulan must first "buy horses in the East Market, buy saddles in the West Market, buy the head of the Dragon in the South Market, and buy a long whip in the North Market" "Dan resigned the grandmother to go, staying by the Yellow River, not hearing the grandmother calling the female voice, but smelling the splash of the Yellow River water."

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