Is Mulan historical?

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It was either Disney adopt Mulan or make a story about Cao Cao for kids....the latter did not work out too well.

Since almost 50% of people around the world is at home .KINGS AND GENERALS must upload more videos.

Fun fact: One of the earliest historical examples of a Chinese woman serving on the battlefield is Fu Hao, who was a general and high priestess during the Shang dynasty! She lived around 1200 BCE, a thousand years before the Han dynasty!

Visitor : Where can I get the real life story of Mulan? Monk: Kings & Generals channel.....

Chinese families putting their children to bed with the ballad Nope, kids have to memorize the whole ballad in front of their desk, finish assignments and write down sentences from this ballad in a close book exam. For me, I can still recite part of this ballad.

K&G:talks about Mulan Subtitles: Milan

Considering nobody realized she was female probably means she wasn't the dainty beauty that is depicted by Disney.

Please do King Arthur in the near future. I want to see an close to accurate telling of the tale.

K&G: uploads video about Mulan Me: LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

Suggestion of short video for K&G crew: the story of Maria Quitéria. Maria Quitéria was a woman who lived in Bahia, a province of the Empire of Brazil, and disguised herself as a man to fight during the Brazilian War of Independence (1822-1823). After the war, she was received by Emperor Pedro I in person, and asked only one thing from him: to write a letter for her father, apologising for her escape from home.

"CHINA IS WHOLE AGAIN......... THEN IT BROKE AGAIN" (Edit I didn't know the comments turn into a Warzone)

2:25 The Chinese lines actually come from the Art of War lol

Have you planned to cover the other two wars of german unification?

A part of me doubt that Disney's upcoming remake will continue the advancing evolution of stories that originated in Chinas ancient past as they seem to be completely devoid of neuance and original storytelling, and ideas. On top of that they always have to appeal to modern Chinas creative censorship. So yeah, I dont have high hopes and my standards is set pretty low for the upcoming movie. Hopefully I'm dead wrong but Disney haven't exactely treated any of the other remakes with respect and appreciation and its only been spectacular soulless cashgrabs.

The term Xianbei (in Chinese as 鲜卑) actually sound like Sibir in the Chinese pronunciation that time. The name Mulan was actually not a typical Chinese name but a middle-Asian name. Actually Mulan Shi itself had stated very clearly that she didn't serve for an emperor but a Khan. This tale of women courage did not reflect in the traditional Chinese culture, but represent the higher status of women in the nomadic culture.

Oh damn, loved the Mulan movie as a child and still do.

The best legend of my nation is about st. Wenceslaus and his knights who are sleeping under the mountain of Blaník. Legend says that they will come to aid the czech people in hour of greatest need. We call them "Blaničtí rytíři" or simple "Blaničtí" (Knights of Blaník). Btw he really existed, he was duke of Bohemia (Válcav I. - Wenceslaus I.) and now he is the main patron of Czech nation.

I approve the Civilization Sound Track.

The Tang dynasty was also when something like Wuxia (武侠) first took shape as a literary genre (initially called Chuanqi (传奇）) , complete with both male and female swashbuckling protagonists in the stories (although legends of women with extraordinary martial prowess emerged even earlier, with one of the earliest and most notable being The Maiden of Yue (越女）, who was said to have lived during the Spring and Autumn Period. Of course, there's also Fu Hao and some woman warriors from as early as the Shang Dynasty, but their stories did not get propagated in classical Chinese literature, and we mainly know of them from archaeological work.) So yeah, among such stories, Mulan is the most well known outside China, but she's not the only one and not even the most extraordinary one in China. Most importantly, a common theme in these stories is that the heroines are admired/respected. (even in the Ballad of Mulan, her comrades were simply surprised when they found out she's a woman. There was no negative feeling.) So it's sort of upsetting to see Disney's live-action Mulan movie depicting ancient Chinese society as if it's averse to the idea of woman warriors ("as a girl you must hide your martial ability lest people see you as a witch!"), which is a gross distortion of actual history, portraying ancient Chinese society as far more sexist than it really was. I mean, have you guys seen all the Chinese Wuxia web-dramas that are proliferating these days? Where do you think the screenwriters got the ideas for their cool femme fatale characters? Influence from modern western fantasy/ comic books? No! Such concepts have been a notable trope in Chinese literature for more than a thousand years !!!