Modern society, 18-year-old men and women have the responsibility to serve the country, looking at the world, women bloom in various military fields, Israel and the United States female soldier ratio is quite high, women as soldiers do not seem to be a big deal, but in ancient China a thousand years ago, due to the difference in social division of labor, and the idea of male superiority and female inferiority, women from the military are unique, so, Mu Guiying hangs up as commander, Mulan joins the army, has become the golden material of repeated artistic processing in later generations, Mulan is catchy, women and children are well known, do you know, What was the final outcome of Mulan, who served in the army for her father?
If you want to know the ending, you must first examine the provenance, does Mulan really have its own person in history? Mulan poems have been widely circulated in the folk before becoming poems, originally a Northern Dynasty folk song, when to start to praise has long been unverifiable, but the narrative poem has reached the Northern Wei, originally only more than 300 words, the circulation has been polished by the literati, to the Sui and Tang dynasties, it has begun to emerge, the descendants of the literati will be Mulan Ci artistic processing and adaptation, Xu Wei of the Ming Dynasty even changed the poem into a play, on the stage.
Regarding Mulan and its people, the historical examinations are different, for example, the county chronicle of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty records: "Mulan, the daughter of the Zhu clan in this county, was born in the early Tang Dynasty,...... Fake man surrogate father to join the military,...... To this day, his home is still under the Mulan Mountain. -Huangpi County Chronicle, but because the Qing Dynasty is a thousand years away from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it is naturally difficult to distinguish between true and false, it is better to see how the New Book of Tang is introduced, "Maiden Mulan, surname Ren" - New Book of Tang.
Therefore, Mulan's supporters firmly believe that the original form does exist in history, probably belonging to the northern people's women, but the place of origin is unverifiable, because of the great pressure on the northern border during the northern and southern dynasties, ethnic minorities rose softly and began to encroach on the territory to the south, and the Northern Wei regime was in a state of military mobilization all year round, so the official government stipulated that each household must send a man to join the army.
From Mulan Ci, it can be seen that Mulan has no brother, her father is old, and her brother is still young, so she made the bold decision to join the army for her father, and has lived a military life for more than ten years since then, until she returns to her hometown, look at Mulan Ci's final statement, "Grandpa Smells The Daughter Comes, Out of Guo Xiangfu General; Sister Wen Comes, When the Household Manages Red Makeup; The Younger Brother Wen Sister Comes, Sharpens the Knife and Ho Ho to the Pig and Sheep." Open my East Pavilion door and sit on my West Pavilion bed. Take off my wartime robes and wear my old clothes. When the window is trimmed, the mirror appliqué is yellow. Going out to see partners, partners are busy: twelve years together, I don't know that Mulan is a girl. ”
Reading this, most rational thinking readers will wonder, since she is a girl, how can her physical condition be indistinguishable from other male soldiers? Not to mention the twelve years of military life with eating and living together, bathing together, going to the toilet together, how to solve it when the physiological period comes? Skeptics believe that the story of Mulan is a folk tale deliberately fabricated by the ancient autocratic dynasty in order to publicize filial piety, which has no historical value, and the armies of successive dynasties are heavily fortified, and it is almost impossible to keep the identity from being exposed.
Mulan ci at first is only a folk song, the characteristics of folk songs often need to be taken from reality, the words are simple and catchy, convenient for the people with low cultural literacy to pass on, and later the processing of the scriptures became works of art, although some of the plots used exaggerated and romantic forms of expression, but extracted the basic story, but it is not difficult to understand, compared with the history, Rouran rose after the establishment of the country for 158 years, the opposing Central Plains Dynasty has experienced several, and in that long period of more than a century, Northern Qi, Eastern Wei, Northern Wei, There have been several battles with Rouran in the Yanran Mountains and the Black Mountain, and the above history corresponds to each other in Mulan, which can be inferred that Mulan does have its own person.
The ending of Mulan is also mentioned in Mulan's speech: "Return to see the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven sits in the Ming Hall." Twelve turns of the strategy, reward a hundred thousand strong. Khan asked what he wanted, Mulan did not need Shang Shulang, willing to gallop thousands of miles, send his son back to his hometown. The story of Mulan quickly spread throughout the court and was valued by tianzi, which can be seen in the society at that time, a woman dressed as a man to serve in the army for her father, people on the one hand think it is strange, on the other hand, they think filial piety, Mulan saw the Tianzi This is relatively credible, because in ancient times, no one dared to violate the authority of Tianzi, and casually fabricated a story to fool people.
In Mulan's final statement, Mulan did not want to be an official in the court, but returned to her hometown and restored her daughter, the poem ended here, the aftermath is not recorded, but fortunately in folklore word of mouth, there are two statements worth noting, one: the emperor in order to reward military merit, see her reluctance to be an official, expressed willingness to accept as a concubine, with the reward of funds, but Mulan insisted on being a free person, at home for her parents to serve the elderly, returned to her hometown after living a peaceful life, another theory is that after twelve years of military career, Mulan has been unable to integrate into folk life He finally married a general, and his later life was relatively happy.
Mulan's story was considered romantic, and in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Daizong posthumously honored him as a general of XiaoLie.
Reference: New Book of Tang, Mulan Poem, Huangpi County Chronicle