Abstract:

During a period of more than one thousand years, the story of Mulan' s joining the army for replacing her father has been undergoing a series of manifestations, such as folksongs, longandshort poems, novels, theatres, films, television series and compute games. And its content has also been developing, being augmented from initial hundreds of words to more than one million words. While the image of Mulan constantly changes and renovates, the related characters and story details continue to multiply. All this constitutes such an enormous story pedigree that the collective memory of nation and the essence of traditional culture are composed. For the restatement of the Mulan story, different ages embody different times characteristics, value concepts and cultural mentality. And to contemporaries, the most attractive is the spirit value of filial morality, heroic deeds and female identity. The theme of the Mulan story develops from typical filialmorality through typical faithfulness to one' s country and parents to typical love for one's father and selfsuccess. And the legend of the Mulan story shapes the main narrative pattern of the Chinese heroine story. Although, under the big background of China' s modern enlightenment and women's liberation, the female independence consciousness of the Mulan story is developed largely, the female identity and affirmation are neglected intentionally. By disclosing the development of the Mulan story, and by analyzing its contained spirit value and the different manifestations of different time contexts and cultural background, also by interpreting the values in many works about Hua Mulan, a process of development for a Chinese cultural sign and its realization of spirit value can be opened out.