Who is Mulan
Who is Mulan?
Mulan is the heroine of the Ballad of Mulan, an individual Chinese poem first recorded in the 6th century CE. Mulan dresses as a man to take her elderly father’s place in the army and discerns herself on the battlefield. Mulan drafts in the army after seeing her father’s name on the registers, since there are no men of an appropriate age to fight in her family. The final image of the poem is a male and a female hare running side by side, accompanied by the observation that they are impossible to tell apart.
The story of Mulan has caught the imagination of many over the years and has become the subject of plays and books both inside and outside China. She is a popular symbol of the strong, capable woman. The Chinese mascot for the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup is based on Mulan, and a crater on the planet Venus is named after her. The author explicitly mentions the Musical Records of Old and New as his source for the poem. Whether she was a historical person or whether the poem was an allegory has been debated for centuries—it is unknown whether the story has any factual basis. The Disney version uses Fa, the Cantonese pronunciation of the same character that represents Hua in Mandarin.
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