Hua Mulan (4 12 -502), whose deeds have been passed down to this day, is a heroine in ancient China, loyal and filial, and passed down through the ages on behalf of her father who defeated the invading nation in the army. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty named her "General Filial Piety".
The spread of Mulan story should be attributed to the folk song Mulan Ci, but the surname and native place of Mulan are not recorded in the history books.
Hua Mulan's deeds are shown in many literary works, such as movies, TV dramas, song and dance Henan operas, etc.
The expanded material Mulan Poetry is a folk song of the Northern Dynasties, and Guo Maoqian's Poems of Yuefu in Song Dynasty is included in the Cross-Blowing Song.
The whole poem conceives the legendary story of Mulan with "Mulan is a girl", which is full of romance; The details are cleverly arranged. Although it is about war, it is more about life scenes and children's modality, full of life breath. Describing the characters' modality, using questions and answers, parallelism, antithesis, intertextuality and other methods to describe the characters' psychology is vivid and meticulous, which makes the works have strong artistic appeal.
This poem uses many rhetorical devices in writing, mainly duality, parallelism and intertextuality. Among them, intertextuality is a unique rhetorical device in this poem, which plays a great role in depicting the psychology, shaping the image and rendering the atmosphere of the characters.
Mulan Poetry is a rare masterpiece in the history of China's poetry. For the first time, it created an immortal heroine who joined the army for her father. Legendary and touching. Mulan is a strange girl and an ordinary person, a heroine and an ordinary girl, a vigorous warrior and a beautiful daughter. She is hard-working, kind-hearted, determined, brave, honest and simple, alert and lively, loves loving the country and loving the quiet life of not admiring high officials and rich people.
References:
Mulan Poetry-Baidu Encyclopedia