From Guo Maoqian's Mulan Poetry.
Mulan Poetry is a folk song in the Northern Dynasties, and Guo Maoqian's Yuefu Poetry in the Song Dynasty is included in the Song of Cross Blowing. This is a long narrative poem, which tells the story of a girl named Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army for her father, made meritorious deeds on the battlefield, refused to be an official after returning to North Korea, and just wanted to go home and reunite. She warmly praised the woman's brave and kind qualities, her enthusiasm for defending the country and her fearless spirit.
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.
Mulan Poetry is a long narrative folk song in northern China during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it is also a Yuefu poem. It tells the story of Mulan disguised as a man, joined the army instead of her father, fought in the battlefield, returned to the DPRK in triumph, made meritorious deeds, and resigned and returned to China, which is full of legend. This poem originated from the folk, and in the long-term spread process, it has traces of being polished by later literati, but it basically retains the characteristics that folk songs are easy to remember and recite.
Resources Baidu Encyclopedia. Mulan Poem