the ballad of mulan Archives

An official poster for Mulan. Credit: Disney
She's best known in the short poem The Ballad of Mulan, which was composed around 400 A.D in Northern Wei. That poem is still taught to Chinese school children and is minimalist and simple: Hu Mulan disguises herself as a man to fight in a war so her elderly, ailing father, wouldn't have When the war[...]