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Our animated historical documentary series on the history of China continues with a video on the legendary Mulan. Is there a truth to the modern incarnation of her story where she fights against the Huns? What is real history and what is the myth?
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Hi
Kings and Generals is the third battle of Pânipat coming soon?
Can you make a series on anglo-mysore wars or anglo-maratha wars or mughql-maratha wars?
@Kings and Generals China: we defeated the Huns, we can stop any nomadic tribe! The Steppes: Throat singing in Mongolian
to defeat the huns
It was either Disney adopt Mulan or make a story about Cao Cao for kids....the latter did not work out too well.
Just imagine Cao Cao singing "You will never find a Warlord like Me!"
@@abcdef27669 WTF ????😂
@@bosbanon3452 well, if Disney decided to make a movie about cao cao now, they probably going to cast a black person hahah
@@aoecenturion4713 you joke about it, but it may be a real risk, especially after black achilles!
@@aoecenturion4713 Knowing Disney they would totally do that. For me, there are but two Cao Cao actors. Chen Jianbin from 2010 TV series or Yu Hewei from The Advisors alliance.
Since almost 50% of people around the world is at home .KINGS AND GENERALS must upload more videos.
Or, you could just go and fuck yourself.
Evan Roberts Why you... No, no. You’ve got a point.
@@hiruharii I see it on Facebook games groups as well. People demanding free stuff and more and more of it, because "we're at home with nothing to do.." as if everyone who's actually doing something owes them a fucking favour.
Buy some merchandise and a VPN and they can.
Evan Roberts Is it really that hard to be polite? What do you think you achieved by commenting this? His request may not sound like a good idea to you and you may disagree with it, but you have no right to insult him.
Visitor : Where can I get the real life story of Mulan?
Monk: Kings & Generals channel.....
@Cricket All Time XIs Thanks
@boss man Thanks
hahaha... very amusing...
@@gofar5185 Thanks :)
K&G:talks about Mulan
Subtitles: *Milan*
Ah, so that's why Marco Polo went to China centuries later
@V R sad but true
General kenobi you are a early one
Is that a RUclips feature and not uploaded by content creatures?
Milan in MTW2 loves crossbows. The people around the time and place that Mulan lived also loved crossbows. Makes sense.
Fun fact: One of the earliest historical examples of a Chinese woman serving on the battlefield is Fu Hao, who was a general and high priestess during the Shang dynasty!
She lived around 1200 BCE, a thousand years before the Han dynasty!
She captured caucasian pows, dicapitated some of them, boiled their heads and buried some others alive. *generally* that is acceptable on youtube for a 1200BCE girl but I guess that's not the case here since she's Chinese.
Fu Hao is probably Mulan. Fu=Lady and Hao or Fa or Hua is Mulan's last name.
@@zwang3909 sounds like the wet dream of every feminist lmao
@@stoggafllik i wonder what you mean feminist... to tell you, male chauvinism in east asia was realized when in the mao era that female volunteer soldiers sang "hua mulan live in us, we fight under the communist flag for parents and the lands...", the male soldiers would say, "not so loud, within your hearing only..."
@@gofar5185 ahhh shut up and change your tampon
*Chinese families putting their children to bed with the ballad*
Nope, kids have to memorize the whole ballad in front of their desk, finish assignments and write down sentences from this ballad in a close book exam. For me, I can still recite part of this ballad.
The good communist way of governing
Nice
Yeah and Jewish parents have their kids know how to invest in stocks before college years. Get with the times!
@@Lochamp That's the case for most of east Asia, it has nothing to do with communism
@@Lochamp It's kind of cute how some people tend to relate everything with communism, despite the fact the Chinese Communist Party doesn't believe in doctrine communism but pragmatism.
Considering nobody realized she was female probably means she wasn't the dainty beauty that is depicted by Disney.
That's because all han Chinese look the same
@@taotekoncha6275 She was Xianbei not Chinese, check out the mural paintings of xianbeis, many of them look like mixed.
@@XuerLi I know. Even today ppl in north China looks different that was just like a racist joke I said
Chinese calamity jane
To be fair, most women would look like men if you cut the hair short, bound up the breasts (if they are endowed), and dressed in men’s clothing. You can be quite surprised how often you could mistake them for young unbearded men!
Please do King Arthur in the near future. I want to see an close to accurate telling of the tale.
If you are interested in the origins of king Arthur and the legends, Overly Sarcastic Productions did a video on exactly that topic. 😉
There is no account more accurate of King Arthur than Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
A Brittonic king of Imperial Roman blood?
@@pandawok301 I thought he was Alfred, West Saxon King who ruled Kingdom of Wessex and where he and his descendants unified England south of the Humber river?
Ambrosios Aurelianus is thought to be the originator of the Arthurian myth. He was a war leader of the Romano British in the early 6th century who fought off the Anglo Saxons
K&G: uploads video about Mulan
Me: *LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS*
To defeat the huns XD
To defeat the Huns!!!
Did they send me daughters, when I asked for sons?
You're the saddest bunch I ever met!
But you bet before we're through!
Suggestion of short video for K&G crew: the story of Maria Quitéria.
Maria Quitéria was a woman who lived in Bahia, a province of the Empire of Brazil, and disguised herself as a man to fight during the Brazilian War of Independence (1822-1823). After the war, she was received by Emperor Pedro I in person, and asked only one thing from him: to write a letter for her father, apologising for her escape from home.
2:25 The Chinese lines actually come from the Art of War lol
And it should be written from right to left, and top to bottom.
And it mostly would have been written vertically downwards from left to right... But ehh minor slips.. Still cool video.
@@nougan_tanker and it should not be quill pen
Have you planned to cover the other two wars of german unification?
Yep! We have actually covered Königgrätz already, but the war with the French is planned down the line.
I am looking forward to it! Nice video as always 👍🏻
So the Danes are not even worth mentioning? ouch!
@James Newstead Yeah, you know us. It's wörk, wörk, wörk -- even in times of quarantine the economy must wörk.
@Glinkling Smearnops Jep. I mean, why do you think Germany love those "farming simulators" so much?
*"CHINA IS WHOLE AGAIN......... THEN IT BROKE AGAIN"*
(Edit I didn't know the comments turn into a Warzone)
Let's do it again and again
The whole world will be broke soon.
Huppidy dumpity sat on a wall, Huppidy dumpity had a great fall...
That's India's history as well tbh!
That's China's history.......i guess
A part of me doubt that Disney's upcoming remake will continue the advancing evolution of stories that originated in Chinas ancient past as they seem to be completely devoid of neuance and original storytelling, and ideas. On top of that they always have to appeal to modern Chinas creative censorship. So yeah, I dont have high hopes and my standards is set pretty low for the upcoming movie. Hopefully I'm dead wrong but Disney haven't exactely treated any of the other remakes with respect and appreciation and its only been spectacular soulless cashgrabs.
Modern Chinese movie are trash compared to their heyday back in the 70's-90's. Too focus on the action not enough on the story narrative. Did mentioned the over acting?
@@KhanMann66 Mulan is a western/American movie though only with Chinese or other ethnic asian actors. But I couldn't agree more. Modern Chinese movies are cheap imitations of Hollywood movies which are themselves cheap imitations of what Hollywood and western cinema used to be only 1-2 decades ago. I love Chinese movies from the 80s and 90s and some good ones were made in the early 2000s.
@@gentlesirpancakebottoms6692 Bless Hong Kong cinema!
@@gentlesirpancakebottoms6692 City of Life and Death was spectacular. But most Chinese films these days, the good ones are just retellings of old stories.
@@racoonlittle1679 Needed to binge watch his movies.
Thank you guys for always delivering quality content
Battle at the Hydaspes ( Alexander) or Mallian Campaign would be very interesting!
I approve the Civilization Sound Track.
I thought the music was familiar!
That’s exactly what i had in mind, endured many hours of civilization 6 and this music just hits the spot
they also used the Total War Three Kingdoms sountrack in the latter half
Jasmine.traditional Jiangsu (chinese province) folk song
The best legend of my nation is about st. Wenceslaus and his knights who are sleeping under the mountain of Blaník. Legend says that they will come to aid the czech people in hour of greatest need. We call them "Blaničtí rytíři" or simple "Blaničtí" (Knights of Blaník).
Btw he really existed, he was duke of Bohemia (Válcav I. - Wenceslaus I.) and now he is the main patron of Czech nation.
@@kippesnikkel5217- Who stole from whom where?
Same legend as Kaiser Barbarossa (the one who drowned in the crusade) who sleeps in a mountain at Kiffhäuser with his beard once grown around a rock will wake and reunite Germany or make it great.
But it already got united. Idk
Maybe I got some things wrong.
*Vaclav
Vitus Kretus seems like A common legend archetype, at least in Europe. Pretty sure King Arthur, Barbarossa and a few others were buried under a mounter and are said to rise again at a nations most desperate hour. Very interesting, I think I’ll look into the saint a little more. Thanks.
We have the same type of legend in Denmark. We have Holger Danske 'Holger The Dane' he was a danish legendary Viking warrior. who had a adventurous life and a legendary sword. There is a statue of him in the katacomes under Kronborg Castle. Where he will rise and defend the nation in our createst need
The Tang dynasty was also when something like Wuxia (武侠) first took shape as a literary genre (initially called Chuanqi (传奇）) , complete with both male and female swashbuckling protagonists in the stories
(although legends of women with extraordinary martial prowess emerged even earlier, with one of the earliest and most notable being The Maiden of Yue (越女）, who was said to have lived during the Spring and Autumn Period.
Of course, there's also Fu Hao and some woman warriors from as early as the Shang Dynasty, but their stories did not get propagated in classical Chinese literature, and we mainly know of them from archaeological work.)
So yeah, among such stories, Mulan is the most well known outside China, but she's not the only one and not even the most extraordinary one in China.
Most importantly, a common theme in these stories is that the heroines are admired/respected.
(even in the Ballad of Mulan, her comrades were simply surprised when they found out she's a woman. There was no negative feeling.)
So it's sort of upsetting to see Disney's live-action Mulan movie depicting ancient Chinese society as if it's averse to the idea of woman warriors ("as a girl you must hide your martial ability lest people see you as a witch!"), which is a *gross* distortion of actual history, portraying ancient Chinese society as far more sexist than it really was.
I mean, have you guys seen all the Chinese Wuxia web-dramas that are proliferating these days?
Where do you think the screenwriters got the ideas for their cool femme fatale characters? Influence from modern western fantasy/ comic books?
No! Such concepts have been a notable trope in Chinese literature for more than a thousand years !!!
I love your series on large scale wars, but these smaller stand alone episodes exploring small singular works or events are in a class of their own. Love you guys keep up the brilliant work!
Oh damn, loved the Mulan movie as a child and still do.
Can't wait for the remake to come out, if it comes out at all this year.
@Klaidi Rubiku I'm glad I never saw it lol
Great job with Mulan. I like the dive into the possible historical, but the writings that accompany the story. It's good to see the influence of people/writers in the story and see their culture and point of view during that of family, duty, and honor. Great work like always and thank you the videos!!!
It breaks my heart that China is not talked about in western history class as much as it should be. I had no idea Mulan was that culturally significant to Chinese people, and I studied Mandarin for 3 years. So much left to discover there!!
I won't exactly call her culturally significant
Certainly not like Yue Fei, or Xiang Yu for example
There's a reason why there are a lot more movies and TV series made in China that had Yue Fei or Xiang Yu as characters, rather than Mulan
The story of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, for example, has been remade countless times, like the RoTK
In this time of lock down and curfew due to Covid virus, your videos is much appreciated and needed. Keep up the good work
Thank you so much for creating such amazing content such as this short documental. I want to thank you especially for the only thing I was missing in your series: Sources! Chances to do some historiography! You guys just twiced the fun out of this.
sources...? all passed away... its up to the likes of kings and generals CURIOSITY to fix a jigsaw puzzle... hua mulan is real... an offspring and product of north highlands of china... given that north highlanders live through lightnings thunders harsh winds in mountains and hills with rivers on the foot of mountains... given that some daughters closer to their fathers, naturally, brought along to hunting and whatever mountain climbing to gather wood or tend plants, where the father say, "dont think of water, dont think you are thirsty, purse your lips and wet with your saliva..." it is in the 1960s that government of china in all of east asia enforced schools that many north highlanders gradually resided in cities...
Correct. Because a verse goes that “昨夜见军帖，可汗大点兵.” The translation is “yesterday ‘she’ saw the military letter that the khan was mustering troops.” As it’s to the khan that the Mulan family owned fealty, it could be true that Mulan belonged to a nomadic people in the north
@@pquumm It was probably adapted by the author to fit more with Han culture. They could have heard about it from a northern source.
officecrasher you’re right, I was just throwing an idea out there
I thought it was widely know that Mulan might have been a Xianbei
Not surprising. I've always assumed that Mulan lived in the Northern Wei dynasty because she addresses the emperor as great Khan son of Heaven. The Xianbei-ruled Northern Wei took great steps to sinicize into Han culture to legitimize their rule. Mulan may have had a mix of Han and Xianbei ancestry since there were still a number of elite Han families (ie. The Li family where ultimately Emperor Taizong of Tang came from centuries later) that remained in the North after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty. Even the ruling Touba clan changed its surname to Yuan from Emperor Xiaowen onwards.
@@pquumm Was about to write a reply but I think you've covered everything. Thanks
Really enjoy how you structure these episodes
Amazing video! Enjoyed every second :)
When will you guys continue your Napoleon series?
You are brave and good, and I am very proud of you
@@williamstevenson8454 hello there
general kenobi
They haven't!? I really started watching the channel during their making and if I'm not mistaken they have even remade it.
They're probably not going to continue it yet since Epic History TV is covering that already and the videos are really good.
This was a wonderful video. A truly in depth look at this famous Mythological heroine. I believe that many more interpretations of her will keep appearing in the centuries to come. Great job. My compliments to those who made this video a reality.
Hey thanks for uploading enjoy your teams work! Hope you guys are safe and pls keep me entertained during quarantine👍
Thank you Kings & Generals, great video to keeps us occupied during the COVID 19 Isolation
2:40 IIRC the Chinese use brush, not quill/pen, and they write vertically from right to left.
They actually wrote both ways
If vertical, it's right to left
If horizontal, it's left to right
@@yuenhai Perhaps there are some exceptions, but vast majority the ancients books were written vertically right to left. It makes perfect sense to write that way since, as far as I know, majority of Chinese pictographs ended with your brush at the bottom of each letter.
Using brush, I think it's more natural to continue writing below previous letter, it would be uncomfortable to move your brush diagonally after each letters.
Ofc after "cultural revolution", many switched into "western style" left-right horizontal.
Anyway, I'm no expert, it's just my personal observation.
@@yuenhai Not in your dreams. Before the communist reforms, chinese was always written right to left even in horizontal setting. Also punctuation was not a thing.
You know, before I started watching this video, in the back of my mind I was getting the feeling that the Disney movie would be mentioned at some point and sure enough it is at 3:43. I mean it had to be mentioned plus watching this documentary showed the difference between historical and Disney. Big fan of the channel by the way and I'm looking forward to more videos, particularly campaigns and battles in WWII.
This video paired with “Jasmine Flower” in the background is just perfect!
Very timely subject. Thank you for that.
Mulan could also very well be Hunnic (or Han Chinese, Xianbei, Qiang, could be any of those really).
After the Three Kingdom area lots of nomad people were allowed to live in Northern China by the government. They've done this because the northern population were severely thinned by warfare, and warlords like Cao Cao desperately need both production and military supplement. For instance the Wuhuan, one of proto-Xianbei tribes, were mercenary cavalry force of Cao Cao. And southern Xiongnu/Hunnic people have been living in Chinese rule for centuries since Han Dynasty.
It was recorded that millions of nomad people lived in northern China during Jin Dynasty, even surpass the Han Chinese population in some counties, which bring headache for the central government.
In the video it said Mulan could lived during Northern Wei (Tuoba Xianbei) Dynasty, this is one of the most popular guess indeed. Northern Wei's army were mainly Xianbei and Han Chinese, but Xiongnu sometimes were considered Xianbei as nomad coalition often were: a military complex. Some researcher pointed out Mulan is more like a Hunnic name. But all those are merely speculations.
Fun fact: Tuoba in Xianbei language means "Quilt".
Every Chinese student learn the Mulan Shi/poetry in middle school, which was written by an anonymous/unknown poet presumely in Wei Dynasty period. The poetry is very interesting and beautifully written, I can still recite every word of it nowadays:
唧唧复唧唧，木兰当户织。不闻机杼声，唯闻女叹息。
问女何所思，问女何所忆。女亦无所思，女亦无所忆。昨夜见军帖，可汗大点兵，军书十二卷，卷卷有爷名。阿爷无大儿，木兰无长兄，愿为市鞍马，从此替爷征。
东市买骏马，西市买鞍鞯，南市买辔头，北市买长鞭。旦辞爷娘去，暮宿黄河边，不闻爷娘唤女声，但闻黄河流水鸣溅溅。旦辞黄河去，暮至黑山头，不闻爷娘唤女声，但闻燕山胡骑鸣啾啾。
万里赴戎机，关山度若飞。朔气传金柝，寒光照铁衣。将军百战死，壮士十年归。
归来见天子，天子坐明堂。策勋十二转，赏赐百千强。可汗问所欲，木兰不用尚书郎，愿驰千里足，送儿还故乡。
Tuoba in Xianbei did not meen quilt, instead it is recorded in the history of Northern Wei that 北俗谓土为托，谓后为跋，故以为氏. Thus in Xianbei, land or soil is Tuo, lord or ruler is ba, thus Tuoba means ruler of the land. What these two transcriptions correspond to, someone that speaks Mongolian or related languages could help.
Muran was strictly xianbei, or xiongnu who merged into xianbei, at least hundreds of thousands defeated xiongnus surrendered to xianbei then declared themselves as xianbeis after abandoning their original ethnicities.
@@XuerLi Indeed. The Tuoba, who were the dominant Xianbei, were definitely Mongolic, while the Yuwen where likely Turkic Xiongnu who became Xianbeinised. There are about seven Tuoba words regarding professions such as "guard" or "killer" transcribed, and all of which end in 真zhen, pronounced jin in Eastern Han Chinese. The "-jin" occupational suffix is unique to Mongolic, so Tuoba is definitely Mongolic. It is mentioned that the Yuwen language was extremely different from the Tuoba language, and that 宇Yu, pronounced Ho in Eastern Han Chinese, meant sky, and 文wen, pronounced men in Eastern Han Chinese, meant people. There is no cognate in Mongolic, but in Turkic it is possibly transcribing "Kökmen", celestial people.
The history for Chinese women joining the force can be dated back to the Shang dynasty, many queens and concubines had helped their husband, the emperor to fight against the enemy according to the Shang’ written accounts, Jiaguwen(甲骨文). The most famous one was Fuhao(婦好), wife of Shang emperor Wuding(武丁), and she was considered as the first-ever female great general in Chinese history. During her years in the army, she helped her husband to win the battle of Qiang(羌) and Bafang(巴方), and let the territory of Shang empire expand into modern Shanxi and Sichuan area.
I never knew that the history of the Mulan story until know. This is a very beautiful and insightful video.
Great work Kings and Generals channel!
Hey Kings, you should make a video about the fall of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368 and the continuation of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
All Chinese learn this Mulan poem in school and they need to Recite the whole damn poem
Trust me, its still better than learning Shakespeare
But not better tha iliad and odyssey
@Klaidi Rubiku I told that to my literature proffesor. I think that the only role that Achilles plays is arguing with king Agamemnon.
@@mybutthasteeth1347 Haha, we also have to learn Shakespeare and recite a small part of it
@Klaidi Rubiku We've been learning and reciting poems to death since China starting civilizing. Honestly its only a US thing where you don't mememorize poetry to death. Or they do but its only three pages at best
Finally a video with some clear background on the subject
early for a King and Generals video. absolutely perfect
In the new remake, she is actually an all powerful Jedi.
Fun fact: in the Mulan from Disney, vilain, Shan Yu bore the name of the supreme leader of Xiongnu, Shanyu.
Great video as usual. However there is a mistake, a small one the Jin Dynasty lasted from 265 to 420 AD not from 317 to 439, and The Eastern Jin from 316 to 420 AD.
Thibault le Tricheur Technically 2 Jin dynasties as well almost 1000 years apart
@@r.m2192 Different Jin. 晉 vs 金.
Your videos really inspire ✊
Went to rewatch most of your series during the infamous XXI century quarentine. Always worth it! What are you future plans, short and long term vids wise?
The term Xianbei (in Chinese as 鲜卑) actually sound like Sibir in the Chinese pronunciation that time.
The name Mulan was actually not a typical Chinese name but a middle-Asian name. Actually Mulan Shi itself had stated very clearly that she didn't serve for an emperor but a Khan. This tale of women courage did not reflect in the traditional Chinese culture, but represent the higher status of women in the nomadic culture.
You must be wrong when you say chinese women never had power when you study the History of China. Treatment of women is different between many dynasties. Women were very influential in politics and instigating regency. Adding on, they were early Chinese Lady Generals and Mulan was not the first or the last.
Usually in Turco-Mongol states, women were commonplace in the army. Story of Mulan wouldn't be out of place at all in XIanbei Northern Wei
Mulan is very likely a Xianbei women or having Xianbei heritage. It is also bery likely her family was not a common peasant family but a hereditary soldier family that exchange the soldier duty of the land. Refuse the military duty will lead to lose of land. Hence there was a urgent need to send one person to army.
Also，xianbei women, following normadic tradition, have more significant role in society than traditional Han women. But at that time point, the northern China was heavily influenced by Xianbei culture. Women in sixteen kingdom era until early Tang had relative higher social significance. Women can openly manage the family estate and go to court for legal case, which is not acceptable in previous Chinese Han culture.
You are mixing up different eras. Women lose power during the late Song dynasty due to popularity of neo-confucianism. Also? the term Khagan didn’t necessarily mean Khan. It’s a term used by nomads broadly applied to anyone who rule. For example Tang emperors are also called Khagan by the Turks and in many official letters from the northern nomads address the southern emperors as Khagan. Moreover, it’s really narrowminded and racist now to think only Han people are chinese... come on, it’s 2019 now.
@@user-kh1jr2nm5v That's propaganda by the CCP to lower unrest in China. That's what every multi cultural nation like Austro-hungarian Empire, Yugoslav, or China does. It doesn't mean its true. Also Khagan is pretty much interchangeable with Khaan.
Mulan is my favorite movie from my childhood, I'm really glad they are making a remake and I'm very happy that you made a video about her. Thank you it really means a lot to me
One of the best channels on youtube hands down. Keep it up. Everyone wants more content (most of us are at home)
This channel is perfect for quarantine
According to the military system of the Northern Dynasties, if Hua Mulan really existed, she might have been born into a military noble family. She had to go to war, otherwise her family would lose political and economic privileges (land). The poems about her military equipment and rapid promotion of rank also illustrate that her family has a high status. Furthermore, the soldiers around Hua Mulan should be private soldiers and servants brought from her home. They are very clear about Hua Mulan's identity. And she kept a certain social distance from other knights, which hide her gender nicely. -----From Zhihu
All myths and legends come from some truth. Absolutely love your videos kings. With the Lord of the rings Amazon series starting eventually maybe we can get some battles from middle earth, First age perhaps 😁
most myths and legends are product of human imagination trying to explain the unexplainable
yllbardh Ah yes, of course, because it’s well known that the legend and myth of Romulus & Remus was used to explain the completely unexplainable and super fucking mystical creation of a damn city. Yep, myths are totally only created to “explain the unexplainable”.
The first K&G's video that I've saw with my daughters, they love it! great video guys, waiting the action film with knowledge, thanx!!!
An unexpected surprise. This channel is awesome.
The true Mulan was such a depressing end to a great woman.
No even that was just another variation.
Since this poem was written in the tang dynasty, I think the prototype of Mulan is Princess Pingyang, the daughter of li yuan（Emperor Gaozu of Tang）, who helped her father to attack chang 'an and establish the tang dynasty。
Pingyang was one of the great female warriors with clear official record , there were others, like Qin Liangyu, Liang Hongyu...
‘’可汗大点兵”。。。
@@zwang3909 木兰=muren ,鲜卑人非华人也
absolutely loved the kings and generals banner behind the girl at 12:40
best history channel on youtube
Thanks kings and generals for sharing wonderful stories
Ha, I can't believe this timing. I just had to memorize the Ballad of Mulan.
I really love the original story of Mulan. Her story challenged the social hierarchy in China before. I'm glad that Disney popularized her story despite the changes and the kiddy approach.
Great Video, Kings and Generals I enjoyed it ;) 👍👌
Please do more about folk lore. Such a high quality.
Mulan full name was Hua Mulan, she was one the heroic figures in ancient China, especially for a woman to serve as an army in place of her father because he was too old to fight. There are many live plays theaters, movies, and story books about Hua Mulan, then she must be real person.
Make a video about Tomiris, queen of the messagetae,a reall herkese who fought against the great shah of persia. There is a movie about it too. I think she should be known too.
great work!
Hey! Isn’t that the theme from Civ6 China at the start? Really good at applying it with Mulan episode or bout China
Mulan could have also been the inspiration for the possibly mythical Japanese warrior woman Tomoe Gozen, who shared many similarities with Mulan such as martial prowess and extraordinary virtue.
Last time I was this early Tung had not yet made a man out of Mulan
T'ang
liked your video, can you do Jumong of Gogoryeo next?
Awesome work Kings and General. Interestingly enough, in some variants of the story, her father allowed her to go to war, after she bested him in combat sparring
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Please make a video on 1965 indo pak war
First of all you guys are great! I started a KnG video spree which is the only positive side of the lockdown. Also Devin became a family member everyone is recognizing his voice now :). May i suggest a video about the epic of Manas?
It would be great if you can make some videos on the warring state period of China, there are so much to learn from and an important point of Chinese history.
Why is your character of Lan in Mulan using Simplified character?
蘭 is the Traditional
Agree, please write in traditional chiense characters to refer to history before communist rule in China.
why not ancient Chinese? To be immersed in the origins of the story
This is interesting. I have always wondered the history of Mulan's story. On another note. Hopefully I can host a video I'd love to see you guys do. The Last Battle from The Wheel of Time!
Love the use of the Civilization soundtrack!
I FREAKING LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah!! Mulan my favorite movie since I was a kid
I always thought the legend of Mulan was partly inspired by a number of great warrior queens of the Shang dynasty, most notably Fu Hao who lead her husband's armies into battle and expanded Shang power in the 2nd millennium BCE.
@Klaidi Rubiku I can assure you the beauty standards of that era isnt what most of us like
@Klaidi Rubiku There's a ton of women warriors in Chinese history. Way too many to list and many forgotten by history.
@Klaidi Rubiku One that comes to mind at the top of my head was the Pirate Queen
@Klaidi Rubiku In history record there were 5 or 6, unlike Mulan they were all written in clear records. one of them was an empress of ethnic Di, the other one was a prostitute and later became a general, she was then married to Han Shizhong, who was one of the greatest generals of Song dynasty.
@Klaidi Rubiku Because Mulan is a cultural concept, it inspires girls to be strong, I was not educated in China but I heard from friends from China that all middle school teenagers have to memorize the poem of Mulan as well as Chushibiao and some others. By the way there is a drama about Yue Fei acted by Huang Xiaoming, both Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu are also featured inside, quite a decent drama, you can search for it.
Great video! Not many people outside China know about Mulan's Xianbei Origin. In a video that I will release soon I will discuss the Xianbei, Tuoba and Rourans in greater detail.
Even in China, only a tiny minority of people know about these stuffs, the Chinese are money minded, they do not care about non practical things, ancient China history has always been a topic only for scholarly elite clans in China.
You guys should do a series on progenitors of martial arts and how they influenced countries’ militaries and history. All I know is the prevalence of martial arts in combat training during and after the world wars
Anyone recognize this music from Civ 6, China theme?
Civ 6 is in my blood. I spotted the music from miles away ;)
Who need that stupid remake when we can watch this great video
You mean the "remake" whose director and scriptwriters have actually read the original story?
It's not stupid if you already accept that Disney is going to remake it according to their own lens
@@Ruhrpottpatriot China's already done the more "faithful" live action adaptation. There's no need for a remake. Honestly these remakes are all cash grabs. This new Mulan especially is just a cash grab directed toward the Chinese audience because Disney's been so desperate to break into their movie scene.
What a fantastic video!
I had always wondered the origin of the Mulan movie now I know I love this channel
Can you do the same for Oguz Han? 🤔
Q: how come Hua Mulan is a lady and no one in the army know it?
A: do you really think that some dude in her company who sleep next to her every night will report her to the officer ? ask any man!
jwhanhust If I find the guy sleeps next to me is a girl, I will enjoy it ,won’t report
You are looking from the pov of a modern person. In ancient time, big boob woman is considerated a nympho or lusty. That 's why the ancient Chinese bra is like an apron, to flatten out the breast.
@@GreatYue But how about the monthly period. Way more hard to hide in the barrack.
@Kings and Generals, you should make a episode about tadeusz kosciusko, his life pretty incredible and deserves some attention.
7:24 That vertical rectangle with the Channel's logo looks a smartphone in a selfie stick.
"China's beloved heroin"
I see what you did there, Brit
Jesus XD
lmao
Not funny from a Chinese viewpoint, but yeah, I got it.
Okay Now thats a bit too far😂
Other way around now. Fentanyl
China: I am Whole again!
Chinese Warlords: Oh I don't think so.
I noticed Kings and Generals had one of their banners in Chinese Characters " 王和將軍“， great eye to detail right here!
Y'alls soundtrack goes hard ngl
Makes more sense for Mulan to be a nomadic hero of probably of Hunic or Mongolian origin, rather than Chinese, considering the know culture and morals of the people at the time . Very educational video - always though Mulan was just a Disney movie!
Well the idea of Chinese was a cultural one, not ethnic or racial. For example, Cantonese and Hokkien people were not "Chinese" until late Qin/early Han dynasty. This happened before there were "Mongols", who ever themselves a mix of hundreds of tribes. The Tuoba adopted Chinese culture and identified as Chinese themselves and later the population would have been absorbed into the next dynasty of China.
Why was there no mention of the 2009 live action film adaptation of Mulan?
Not every instance of the story needs comment on.
Amazing!
Kings and generals pure class as always!