A Concise Glimpse of Chinese Culture Through the Celebrated Mulan

Mulan is my best-loved Disney film because aside from showing a portrayal of a strong woman---a woman who is ready to fight a battalion of soldiers---it is informative about the out of the ordinary Chinese culture. Mulan's scene with the bulky match-maker, who ended up cursing her for not being a best housewife, best depicts the Chinese women lifestyle. It shows that lenient women in China are supposed to train hard for assorted household chores like serving tea, weaving, and not speaking without permission. This training is the key of Chinese women to find a nice or unpleasant husband.

Moreover, honoring the archaic family ancestors is continuously a significant custom because Chinese people believe their ancestors can give them guidance on serene living; this is why they give their monuments some offerings. Additionally, stone tablets in a serene temple are for the family's grave sites, whereas the tablets that Chinese use to worship their ancestors, which are regularly found in a Chinese home, are entirely made of hard wood. The attractive Chinese people are also fond of assorted luck symbols such as what can be found in this movie: the little Lucky Cricket, the apple, and the beads of precious jade. Until today, ablaze Chinese people still apply these customary Chinese beliefs. This is also one perfect reason why China keeps on attracting visitors and spectators to study about their archaic culture and history.