1593) dramatized the tale as "The Female Mulan" or, more fully, "The Heroine Mulan Goes to War in Her Father's Place", in two acts. The poem consists of 31 couplets and is mostly composed of five-character phrases, with a few extending to seven or nine.Īn adaptation by playwright Xu Wei (d.
As a ballad, the lines do not necessarily have equal numbers of syllables. The earliest extant text of the poem comes from an 11th- or 12th-century anthology known as the Music Bureau Collection, whose author, Guo Maoqian, explicitly mentions the Musical Records of Old and New as his source for the poem. The Ballad of Mulan was first transcribed in the Musical Records of Old and New, a compilation of books and songs by the monk Zhijiang in the Southern Chen dynasty in the 6th century. Sources Painting of Hua Mulan, 18th century, housed in the British Museum The Hua Mulan crater on Venus is named after her. The story of Mulan was taken up in a number of later works, including the 16th-century historical fiction Romance of Sui and Tang, and many screen and stage adaptations. A later adaptation has Mulan active around the founding of the Tang dynasty ( c. The historical setting of the Ballad of Mulan is usually the Northern Wei's military campaigns against the nomadic Rouran. The first written record of Mulan is the Ballad of Mulan, a folk song believed to have been composed during the Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 AD) and compiled in an anthology of books and songs during the Southern Chen dynasty (557–589 AD). Hua Mulan is depicted in the Wu Shuang Pu ( 無雙譜, Table of Peerless Heroes) by Jin Guliang. Scholars generally consider Mulan to be a fictional character. She retires to her hometown, where she is reunited with her family and reveals her gender, much to the astonishment of her comrades. In the story, after prolonged and distinguished military service against nomadic hordes beyond the northern frontier, Mulan is honored by the emperor but declines a position of high office. Hua Mulan ( traditional Chinese: 花木蘭 simplified Chinese: 花木兰) is a legendary folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history.Īccording to legend, Mulan took her aged father's place in the conscription for the army by disguising herself as a man. Mulan as depicted in the album Gathering Gems of Beauty ( 畫麗珠萃秀), Qing dynasty
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