Who's Zhu Mulan?

The story of Zhao Zhijiang's Mulan Joining the Army as Father has been circulated in China for more than 1000 years, which is a household name. Recently, however, an expert specializing in Chu culture from Hubei Academy of Social Sciences made a surprising statement: Mulan was born in Dachengtan Village, huangpi district Town, Wuhan, not in China. The legend of Mulan joining the army instead of her father originated from the folk song Mulan Ci in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In this folk song, Mulan has a name but no surname. Xu Wei, a zaju writer in the late Ming Dynasty, gave Mulan the surname "Hua" for the first time in his own zaju "Female Mulan's Father Joined the Army". After hundreds of years of artistic re-creation, Mulan's artistic image is becoming more and more perfect. The name "Mulan" has long been accepted by the public and has become the representative of female heroic image. As for Mulan's surname in Mulan Ci, there is no way to verify it, and there is no need to verify it. Literature and art are different from historical classics, and characters need artistic processing. However, when the general public is still immersed in the fictional artistic image itself, experts and scholars have infiltrated literature and rushed to history, trying to find out the thickness of history from this artistic image. When more and more experts and scholars indulge in similar "nitpicking", reflection is inevitable, but it is not about how ignorant the public is, but about what kind of academic atmosphere we need. The Monkey King is very picky about the "brothers buried in the tomb of the gods". Jia Baoyu has calculated the specific birthday. Even Ximen Qing, who has been notorious for thousands of years, is now being robbed of happiness ... It is unknown how many real historical facts can be studied from these illusory characters; However, it seems that it is not difficult to predict how much real money the eyeball economy can bring. In order to tap the limited historical and cultural resources, many places have turned out historical figures that have little to do with the local area, packaged them a little, and put them in the foreground of "revitalizing the regional economy" under the banner of culture. After such a jaw-dropping study, culture does not necessarily increase much, and the extreme desire for economic benefits is really amazing. Mr. Qian Zhongshu once said that if you think eggs are delicious, you can feast your eyes on them. Why do you ask which hen laid the eggs? But now it seems that more and more people are keen on studying hens after eating eggs. Of course, they don't want to thank the hens, but they want to take them home and lay more eggs for themselves. I hope Mulan won't see the so-called "Mulan Park" in Wuhan after she changed her name to Zhu Mulan. We are really tired of watching this ridiculous farce.