Hua Mulan () is a legendary figure from ancient China who was originally described in a Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan ( 木蘭辭 ).

Mulan features a score by Jerry Goldsmith and five songs by Matthew Wilder ( music ) and David Zippel ( lyrics ), with a sixth originally planned for Mushu, but dropped following Eddie Murphy's involvement with the character.

Development for Mulan began in 1994, after the production team sent a select group of artistic supervisors to China for three weeks to take photographs and drawings of local landmarks for inspiration ; and to soak up local culture.

The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao ( 趙朱木蘭 Zhào Zhū Mùlán ), a historian, and Dr. James S. C. Chao ( 趙錫成博士 Zhào Xīchéng ), who began his career as a merchant mariner and later, after getting established in New York, built a successful shipping company ( Foremost Shipping Co .).

The finger trap can be seen in a number of films and television programs, such as the Stan Laurel short " Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde " ( 1925 ), the Little Rascals short " Moan and Groan, Inc .", the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Last Outpost " ( 1987 ), the feature film The Addams Family ( 1991 ), Chasing Amy ( 1997 ), 100 Women ( 2002 ), Mulan II ( 2005 ), Dexter's Laboratory ( episode Unfortunate Cookie ), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends ( episode The Big Leblooski ) and the Simpsons.

* Hua Mulan Joins the Army ( 1927 film ) – a Chinese silent film released by the Tianyi Film Company and directed by Li Pingqian.

* Mulan Joins the Army ( 1928 film ) – Mingxing Film Company production, directed by Hou Yao.

* Mulan Joins the Army ( 1939 film ) – popular Chinese film made during the war, directed by Bu Wancang.

* Lady General Hua Mulan ( 1964 film ) – Hong Kong opera film.

* A Tough Side of a Lady ( 1998 film ) – Hong Kong TVB drama series of Mulan starring Mariane Chan as Hua Mu Lan.

* Mulan ( 1998 film ) – Disney animated feature based on the legend of Mulan, and the basis of many derivative works.

* Mulan II ( 2004 film ) – Sequel to Disney Mulan ( 1998 film ).

* Mulan ( 2009 film ) – Live action film about the Chinese Legend.

Fa Mulan ( Chinese: 花木蘭 ) better known simply as Mulan, is a fictional character and lead protagonist of Disney's thirty-sixth animated feature film Mulan ( 1998 ).

Earlier in the film, Mulan was declared unfit for marriage, but this is not the case with her budding romance with Li Shang.

In addition, Mulan is, naturally, in the Disney's Mulan Jr. musical stage adaptation of the original film.

Mulan is a 1998 American animated musical film directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, with story by Robert D. San Souci and screenplay by Rita Hsiao, Philip LaZebnik, Chris Sanders, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Raymond Singer.

The 36th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, and a part of the Disney Renaissance, the film is based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan.

Earlier in the film, Mulan was declared unfit for marriage, but this is not the case with her budding romance with Li Shang.

* In Mulan II, it's titled " Mushu's On His Way Out " where the ancestors reject Mushu stating that if Mulan and Shang marry each other, he might lose his job.

* The Legend of Mu Lan: A Heroine of Ancient China was the first English language picture book featuring the character Mulan published in the United States in 1992 by Victory Press.

Mulan's Legend and Legacy in China and the United States ( Temple University Press ; 2010 ) 263 pages ; Traces literary and other images of Mulan from premodern China to contemporary China and the United States.

* The Legend of Mu Lan: A Heroine of Ancient China A bilingual Chinese / English picture book of the Mulan legend

Mulan is praised by the Emperor and the people of China, who all bow to her as an unprecedented honor.

Mulan is set in China during the Han Dynasty.

Mulan is praised by the Emperor and the people of China, who all bow to her as an unprecedented honor.

Although developed late in production progress, Faux Plane was used in five shots, including the dramatic sequence which features the Great Wall of China, and the final battle sequence when Mulan runs to the Forbidden City.

However another version reports that Mulan was requested as a concubine by Emperor Yang of Sui China ( reigned 604 – 617 ).

Though Mulan is set in northern China and employs her Mandarin personal name, Disney gives her the Cantonese pronunciation ( Fa ) for her family name.

The second legend on Qianlong's origins, more popular in northern China, stated that during a trip to the Mulan Hunting Ground ( 木蘭圍場 ) in Rehe Province, Yongzheng had an illegitimate affair with a palace maid and they conceived a son, who would become the Qianlong Emperor.

In 1998, Morita voiced the Emperor of China in Disney's 36th animated feature Mulan and reprised the role in Kingdom Hearts II and Mulan II, a direct-to-video sequel.

Magnolia liliiflora ( variously known by many names, including Mulan magnolia, Purple magnolia, Red magnolia, Lily magnolia, Tulip magnolia, Jane magnolia and Woody-orchid ) is a small tree native to southwest China ( in Sichuan and Yunnan ), but cultivated for centuries elsewhere in China and also Japan.

The story of Hua Mulan has inspired a number of screen and stage adaptations without taking into account pre-modern Chinese plays and operas about the subject.

In the Imperial City, Mulan attempts to warn Li Shang about Shan Yu, but he refuses to listen.

In the Imperial City, Mulan attempts to warn Li Shang about Shan Yu, but he refuses to listen.

Over time, the story of Hua Mulan rose in popularity as a folk tale among the Chinese people on the same level as the Butterfly Lovers.

* New Tang Dynasty TV's 2006 Chinese Spectacular featured a stage performance of the story of Mulan.

* Ode to Mulan The original poem in Chinese and English side-by-side translation.

The character is inspired by the legendary Hua Mulan from the Chinese poem The Ballad of Mulan.

Her character was based on the protagonist of the ancient Chinese legend, " The Ballad of Hua Mulan.

During the scene in which the Chinese are bowing to Mulan, the crowd is a panoramic film of real people bowing.

Disney was keen to promote Mulan to the Chinese, hoping they might replicate their success with their 1994 film The Lion King, which was one of the country's highest-grossing Western films at that time.

The Chinese legend of Hua Mulan centers on a young woman who disguises herself as a man to take the place of her elderly father in the army.

When Mulan masquerades as a man, her name is a Chinese pun.

* Hua Mulan, who disguised herself as a man to join the Chinese army, when her father was too old for it.

Analysis revealed aromatic plants such as maoxiang ( 茅香 " Imperata cylindrica, thatch grass "), gaoliangjiang ( 高良薑 " Galangal "), xinyi ( 辛夷 " Magnolia liliiflora, Mulan magnolia ), and gaoben ( 藁本 " Ligusticum sinense, Chinese lovage ").

Laurence Yep ’ s The Magic Paintbrush, Maxine Hong Kingston ’ s The Woman Warrior, and Walt Disney Pictures ’ Mulan all borrow from Chinese folklore traditions.