Chirp and chirp, Mulan is a household weaver, and she doesn't hear the sound of the machine, but she hears the sigh of the woman......
Speaking of this "Mulan Ci", everyone should be no stranger, even if it is a friend who has left school for many years, he must be able to recite a few sentences.
It is precisely because of this poem that we learned about an admirable heroine during our school days.
When I first learned about Mulan, I still had some "complaints", after all, this poem was too long and too difficult to recite.
I still remember that it was an afternoon when the sun was like blood, I still remember the bitterness of standing outside the classroom until my legs and feet were numb, and I still remember the seriousness of reciting with my textbook after I went home.
Since then, I have a deep memory of Mulan.
Later, I got to know her further, because in my hometown of Yingguo Town, Yucheng County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, there is an ancestral hall to commemorate Mulan, and the school has also organized a visit.
Now this ancestral hall is still there, and has become one of the key tourist attractions listed in the first phase of the Henan Provincial People's Government and the Henan provincial key cultural relics protection unit.
In ancient times, a woman's lack of talent was virtue, so Mulan, like other women, learned to weave.
Maybe at that time, Mulan was still fantasizing that there would be such a person in the future who would take advantage of the colorful auspicious clouds to marry her.
But an unexpected situation happened - conscription, which shattered all the illusions of Mulan, according to the conscription system at that time, every family had to produce a man, and Mulan's father was also on the list of conscription.
Originally, fighting was a man's business, but Mulan's father was old, and fighting was to die when he fought, and Mulan did not have a brother, which made Mulan very depressed.
So she made a decision to disguise herself as a man and join the army for her father.
So why didn't Mulan expose her daughter after 12 years in the army, is Mulan too good at disguise or others too stupid? Historians' explanations for this are a bit heart-wrenching.
Let's take a look.
According to the conscription situation of the Northern Wei Dynasty at that time and the narrative of "Mulan Ci", we can know that it was not easy to fight in the army at that time.
In fact, in those days, it was not easy to fight, but it was especially difficult for Mulan.
Because she has to purchase her own weapons and equipment in the army, including her war horses, of course, some people may say that this is not, fighting is inherently dangerous, and she has to pay for it, so she just escapes, but at that time, the war was continuous, who could be alone?
Mulan bought all the belongings of the army and rode to the battlefield.
A woman disguised as a man to enter the army, this matter is actually very difficult to operate, at least not now, even if it is feudal for more than 2,000 years, such a thing is very rare.
Women and men are not the same, even if they wear armor, the difference is obvious, if they will be disguised for a while, so that others can't see it, this is also understandable, but Mulan has not been in the army for a while, but for 12 years.
Twelve years have passed in a flash, but for Mulan, it must have been more than ten years of fear, and she had to disguise herself while fighting, for fear that instead of dying on the battlefield, she would be exposed for the crime of deceitful king.
The battle was won, Mulan also returned with honor, and also went to the court to meet the emperor, and praised Mulan greatly, and he was naturally not stingy when he could reward him, and later the court also wanted to make Mulan Shang Shulang.
But he was rejected by Mulan, in Mulan's opinion, no matter how big the official is, how can there be a warm home, and besides, he has been pretending to be more than ten years, and he is already tired.
Since Mulan is like this, the court is naturally not reluctant, and there can be a military general who is not in love with power, isn't this exactly what the emperors are happy to see?
Mulan still returned home, more than ten years have passed, the home is still the same home, the grandmother is here, the younger sister and brother have grown up, not to mention how enthusiastic she is when she sees Mulan.
For the welcome of her family, Mulan is very pleased.
But what she wanted most was to be herself, so she eagerly returned to the little house where she had once been full of fantasies.
Take off your armor, find out what you once dressed, and dress up with makeup.
When Mulan appeared in front of everyone, everyone was petrified, and it was only then that they knew that Mulan was a woman.
Think about it, I have been in the army together for 12 years, and there is naturally more contact in the middle, but no one found out that Mulan is a woman, and I can really hold back internal injuries when I think about it.
The matter seems to be over here, and Mulan's heroine image is also vividly outlined, with Mulan's courage and makeup skills alone, it is admired by future generations.
But it's not over yet.
Mulan is daughter was quickly passed to the emperor, the emperor felt that she was really a strange woman, so he wanted to summon Mulan into the palace, but Mulan was unwilling to go at all, and some people even wrote in some books that Mulan committed suicide after resisting the decree.
Mulan's deeds have been circulating, and by the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, she was posthumously named General Xiaolie.
Mulan's story is legendary, but for more than ten years when no one else found out that she is a woman, people now always don't want to believe it, thinking that this can't be done at all.
However, some historians said that this incident is possible, not because of Mulan's good skills in dressing as a man, nor because of Mulan's clumsy comrades-in-arms, but because of Mulan's appearance.
These scholars believe that Mulan's appearance is not very delicate, but the kind of tiger with a bear's waist, such people abound in the army, Mulan is not outstanding, or even very ordinary, so that it will not be taken seriously, no one pays attention to it, and it is naturally easier for Mulan to disguise.
In addition, Mulan's class can also help Mulan hide her identity, in our impression, after joining the army, Mulan has to stay with male soldiers all day long, eat and sleep together, and so on.
In fact, it is not the case, Mulan went with a war horse at that time, so the type of army after she joined the army was cavalry, and the cavalry was inseparable from the war horse except for the time when she went into battle to kill the enemy.
Even when a large army sleeps together, they will not tie their horses to their sides, but sleep with them snuggled up, which also reduces the time spent in contact with their comrades.
This explanation by historians is really shocking.
In fact, there is no clear record of Hua Mulan in history, so she is now positioned as a female character in ancient literary works.
But this doesn't mean that Mulan was fabricated out of thin air, if you dig deeper, you can find out her prototype, but what if you find out, people will continue to sing the story of Mulan, who has made her image recognized?