The Ballad of Mulan

While she is weaving, Mulan finds out her father has been called to war. He is too old and she decides to dress as a soldier and to replace him. For ten years she fights wearing men’s clothes. In the end of the war, Mulan gets rewarded by a king and returns back home. The girl, still disguised as a man, asks for a horse to go back home. Upon her arrival, she hangs up the military clothes to wear her own clothes, showing her battle companions she is a woman. A picture book made from the original legend of Ancient China has won a prestigious Chen Bochui International Award for children’s literature in Shanghai (2015).