Mulan biography for kids

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Hua Mulan was a Chinese warrior woman who lived during the Northern and Southern dynasties, which was between 420 and 589 CE, and her story was told through the “Ballad of Mulan.” Now, it’s possible that she was a real person, but it is largely believed that her story is fictional.

Real or not, she has been an inspiration to women throughout the ages, and she even has a crater on Venus named after her.

There have been a number of stories about Hua Mulan in addition to the “Ballad of Mulan.” A thousand years after that was written, there was a play by Xu Wei, and a story from the Qing dynasty called “Sui Tang Romance” which sets her story around 620 CE during the beginning of the Tang dynasty, which has another female warrior named Dou Xianniang who becomes Mulan’s bonded sister, or laotong.

The first version of her story was written in the sixth century in the “Musical Records of Old and New,” which later became a part of Ch