In 1998, Disney in the United States used an animation to send Mulan, an ancient historical legendary figure in China, to the world stage, and soon Mulan attracted widespread attention around the world. Mulan is a legendary hero in the history of our country, in the Northern Song Dynasty's "Lefu Poetry Collection", a "Mulan Poem" lyrically wrote the story of Mulan serving in the army for her father, since then, the heroic image of Mulan has remained deeply in people's hearts.
When people pass on the story of Mulan, they often think of a question, Mulan, as a daughter, eats and lives with many soldiers, how did she achieve "walking together for twelve years, not knowing that Mulan is a girl"? It boils down to three reasons!
First, the historical background of Mulan
Legend has it that the story of Hua Mulan's serving in the army for her father occurred during the Northern Wei Dynasty, during which many nomadic peoples often harassed and provoked trouble on the border, and wars were frequent. At that time, the emperor ordered that every family should send a man to fight, Mulan's family, the father is old, there is still a younger brother just learned to walk, in order to share the worry for his father, Mulan disguised himself as a man all night and went to the army to report.
When Mulan joined the army, she was only 15 years old, and now, Mulan was in her adolescence, and children at this age were in the second stage of development, and gender characteristics were gradually developing, and it was difficult to distinguish gender. At this time, Mulan's men dressed as women went to the army to report, for the country and the army, it is the time when people are needed, some people come to join the army, and they will not be particularly strict. And in ancient times, the general people who joined the army were men, which was almost default, and when entering the army, they would not deliberately distinguish gender, which gave Mulan a great convenience to join the army.
Therefore, Mulan disguised as a woman to join the army and was able to successfully enter the army, in addition to her cleverness, also had a lot to do with her age. Because the gender characteristics have not yet been fully revealed, so pretending to be a man is like, because of the image, can successfully enter the army, which makes Mulan achieve the first step of joining the army for her father.
Second, Mulan's figure and personality
Mulan's military career has a lot to do with her father, Hua Mulan's father, Hua Arc, who also fought on the battlefield when he was young, and was a famous general who had been in the battlefield for a long time, and later returned to his hometown because he was wounded in the war. Hua Mulan has been very interested in things on the battlefield since she was a child under the influence of her father, and unlike other girls, she likes to walk on horseback archery and is proficient in martial arts, and often competes with her father, so when the government began to recruit soldiers from house to house, Mulan did not hesitate to choose to join the army for her father.
To say how Mulan hides the identity of her daughter in the army, in fact, for Mulan, she has another advantage. As we all know, the Northern Wei Dynasty was also a regime dynasty established by foreign invading ethnic minorities, and after invading the Central Plains, it began to integrate into the Central Plains culture, and the Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Clan took the lead in changing the Han name to Yuan and intermarried with Han women. Mulan was once a descendant of the Tuoba clan in the north, so unlike the traditional Central Plains women, she was much taller and burlier, and her physique was relatively strong.
Therefore, in the army, Hua Mulan and the soldiers ate and lived together and were not discovered, and a large part of it was related to her figure. Moreover, Mulan is an aspiring patriotic hero, she is not only superficially serving in the army for her father, she is in the military camp, with the ambition to serve the country, and has a heroic spirit that ordinary men do not have, which makes people in the military admire, and it is difficult to doubt her gender.
Third, the merits of Mulan
With a lot of enthusiasm, Hua Mulan has made many military achievements in the war to defend the frontier, and her status in the army has risen higher and higher, which has created another condition for Mulan to hide her identity. When Mulan was originally an ordinary soldier, she lived with all the soldiers, marched and fought together, and her gender characteristics were well hidden every day. However, as Mulan grew older, the female characteristics gradually developed completely, and there would be many inconveniences in living with the soldiers.
Over the long period of accumulation, Mulan's battle achievements have become more and more, and she has slowly become a general on the commander's side, so with a military tent that can live and live independently, it is gradually separated from the lives of the soldiers, so it is difficult for the soldiers to find that Mulan is the identity of the daughter. In the story circulated, Mulan's boss He Tingyu has always wanted to give his daughter to Mulan, which proves that Mulan hides his identity very well.
For a long period of military life, for Mulan, she has completely regarded herself as a boy. Coupled with the difficult environment, there is also some delay in the development of female characteristics, which has created the hero Mulan who everyone sings.
epilogue:
The reason why Hua Mulan was able to hide her gender in the military for decades and realize the great wish of serving in the army for her father and defending the country is closely related to the historical era in which she lived, her own image and gender, and her position in the military. The story of Mulan is widely circulated in the form of novels and dramas, and the story of Mulan in the Sui and Tang Dynasties was written into the "Sui and Tang Dynasties", and during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most of them were performed in the form of opera, and after years of singing, they created the hero Hua Mulan in people's hearts!