That's basically the gist of the story, where she spends 12 long years at the war-front to the amazement that she was never found out, before returning to the gratitude of family and country. ![]() Rather than send her father to instant death in the battlefield, Mulan disguises herself as a male, and takes her father's place. Being a military family, the Huas have no male heir to represent their family, which automatically meant the aging father has got to volunteer himself. ![]() We all know how the story of Hua Mulan follows that of other legendary folk heroes in China's rich history, and to date there's only a reference poem which accounted her exploits which stem out of filial piety, at a time in the Northern Wei state centuries ago when the Emperor decreed that all families must contribute to the war effort.
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