Then, when the hun army invades china, one man from every household must serve in the imperial army. Mulan (“magnolia”) is a legendary character in chinese literature who is best known in the modern day from the disney filmed adaptations (1998, 2020) Her story, however, about a young girl who takes her father's place in the army to help save her country, is hundreds of years old. Hua mulan, heroine in chinese legend who—disguised as a man—joined the army in place of her father After performing great military feats, she was honored by the emperor Her story is immortalized in the folk song “ mulan ci ” (“the ballad of mulan”).
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