The Evolution And Cultural Connotation Of Mulan’s Story

Mulan is a famous ancient Chinese heroine, and the legendary story is well-known. Mulan’s image have important value in Chinese literature and culture, after thousands of years the story still has a contemporary value. Each dynasty in history, there will be some recognition by the female moral models, such as the history of biography of women in virgin female, filial daughter and so on. With the development of the times, the change of values, many idols who have been appreciated and worship have been gradually forgotten, while Mulan was a few image which can stay on the contemporary spiritual culture and make influence to the contemporary culture. The four theme of the story of Mulan in filial piety culture, costume culture, the heroine, and story of love and marriage are the eternal theme of human culture at all times and in all countries, and set in this story makes the story of Mulan through thousands of years’ history.From the "Mulan" to the song and Yuan Dynasties Poetry, notes, and the Ming and Qing Dynasty, legend, novel, the story of Mulan in different periods, different styles of the evolution time scale, narrative, story and characters change. We should put the Mulan’s legend into the ancient culture which gestates the legend.The reach about this formation process and the evolution of legend about Mulan can help us to exp;re the whole Chinese basic context of the evolution of ancient lengends.This paper based on the variety of the collection of Mulan story,in accordance wjth the development and evolution of the order context. And then,this paper analyses the development of the plot elements of legend about mulan to show the evlution of culture context and the different cultural backgrounds.This paper expect to explore the legend of evolution and interaction between cultures,the thesis consists of six parts as follws:The first part is the exordium. The thesis introduces the rearch object,current status and the research method. The first chapter is the literature review, desighed to sort out the relevant literature and the basic material conditions of legend about mulan.The second chapter of filial piety culture theme of Mulan’s image has become the most important reason model character literary and cultural history, but also in the story changes of thousand years, always pay attention, more constant theme. Enveloped in the theme of the filial piety, Mulan is away, into the male world and gain fame "crossing" behavior is not only not to deviate from the social order, but also become similar to the miracle of the legendary hero, was accepted and praised by the mainstream culture. This chapter analyzes the evolution of the filial piety culture of Mulan story, first filial culture and history development history, summarized characteristics of the times and filial culture in different ages; then according to the time section, summarizing the Northern Dynasties to the writing of filial piety culture of Qing Dynasty in the story of Mulan, analysis time generation characteristics and rheological trajectory, and further reveal the cultural motivation effect of its evolution.The third chapter analyses the story of Mulan in the costume story. The story of Mulan in costume theme is a very important theme in the story, the theme is large influence on popular literature and contemporary stories. This chapter focuses on Cultural Perspective from transvestites Mulan story, first sort out the cultural origin of cross-dressing, development summary easy story in literature; and then the evolution history of the story of Mulan brand story, story of the cultural connotation of investigation, which reveals the influence of inner cultural motivation of story generation and evolution.The fourth chapter starting from Mulan story heroine Mulan has been the theme of the story, a famous female hero image in the history of our country, her bravery and meritorious service makes her become legendary female hero model in the later narrative, this perfect achievement let Magnolia in ancient times many have become a relatively high-profile praise female model. In the story of the heroine Mulan theme has existed in the Northern Dynasties to the story changes in Qing Dynasty, is the constant theme in the story. But with the change of political and economic background, feminism and literati mentality, social customs and other factors, the constant theme will also change in the narrative way and the attention key.The fifth chapter analyses the subject of marriage and love, love and marriage theme is the story of Mulan in only one original story relates to, but later story evolution in the newly added theme. The story of Mulan’s marriage plot appeared relatively late, but in later stories, and even in the contemporary story of Mulan film and television works of the theme of the story. Mulan’s marriage and female emotion gained importance in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in popular literature, also makes the story plot and character elements have been added and rich. The story of Mulan’s marriage plot appeared relatively late, but in later stories, and even in the contemporary story of Mulan film and television works of the theme of the story.The conclusion part summarizes the above chapters point of view, summed up the story of Mulan special text node in the evolution process, from the combination of the plot content and the cultural connotation, summarizes the evolution of the four cultural themes, points out that the special meaning of the story of Mulan in the history of literature, with the dynamic perspective, combing the literature and plot line, and reveals that the implicit in the text after the cultural connotation.