Yesterday I went to see the movie "Mulan", Liu Yifei was so good-looking, even though her makeup was very disgraced from beginning to end.

At the end of the movie, a kid next to me asked his parents: "Do foreigners think that the most powerful thing in Chinese Kung Fu is to catch arrows empty-handed?" (This move appears too many times in the movie) The West has a tendency to "mysterious Orientals" Imagine that even children find it too symbolic.

This is a traditional Chinese story made by foreign directors, so there are many unreasonable plots in the movie, so I won't list them here.

Disney princesses have experienced nearly a hundred years of people's discussion on the value of women, from the first Snow White who is a good wife and mother, to the most recent "Frozen" Aisha.

But I want to say that the power of women in the East has always been there. In our myths, poems, and novels, they are often separated from the male secular value system.

Alack，alas! Alack, alas!

She weaves and sees the shuttle pass.

You cannot hear the shuttle, why?

Its whir is drowned in her deep sigh.

"Oh, what are you thinking about?

Will you tell us? Will you speak out?"

"I have no worry on my mind,

Nor have I grief of any kind.

I read the battle roll last night;

The Khan has ordered men to fight.

The roll was written in twelve books;

My father s name was in twelve nooks.

My father has no grown-up son,

For elder brother I have none.

I ll get a horse of hardy race

And serve in my father s place."

......

“I open the door to my east chamber,

I sit on my couch in the west room,

I take off my wartime gown

And put on my old-time clothes.”

Facing the window she fixes her cloudlike hair,

Hanging up a mirror she dabs on yellow flower powder.

She goes out the door and sees her comrades,

Her comrades are all amazed and perplexed.

Traveling together for twelve years,

They didn t know Mu-lan was a girl.

“The he-hare s feet go hop and skip,

The she-hare s eyes are muddled and fuddled.

Two hares running side by side close to the ground,

How can they tell if I am he or she?”

Mulan goes on an expedition

Mulan was not full of ambitions to show off her ambitions, but the cruel war made her grow unusually. 

Generals die in a hundred battles,

Stout soldiers return after ten years.

Behind this poem is the cruel battle of life and death.What gave her courage was the love for her family and her hometown. She chose to ride a war horse and put on an armor. It was not an ambition to make achievements, but to protect her family.

 Nie 

Film The Assassin 

In 7th century China,the Tang Dynasty is in decline.,The Imperial Court seeksto protect itself,by establishing garrisonsat the frontiers of its empire.The story of Nie happened in this era.

The main task of an assassin is to kill. It doesn't matter who killed, but whether succeeded. The swordsman is to punish bad gays.

Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin turns the story into a clash between national interests and personal enmity, putting the previously detached heroine back into the standard structure of martial arts. In terms of films, this operation may be easier for the audience to understand, but obviously nie yinniang's values in the Legend of Tang dynasty are not so "heavy". She has her own morality, which has nothing to do with the temple, so forget it in the world.

 Fu Hao 

If Hua Mulan is a hero, then Fu Hao is the war goddess. She was the queen of The Shang king Wuding, female general, female politician, female diviner, both military, political, clerical.

The documentary "National Treasure" Liu Tao plays the role of Fu Hao

The oracle records that She led 13,000 people in a war against the enemy, the largest scale of war ever discovered in shang Dynasty, The average war was about a thousand people at that time.

Fu Hao's weapon:  Tong Yue,  8.5-9 kg

She fought not only on a large scale, but also in the process of Chinese civilization is very far-reaching significance. A large number of prisoners of war, many of them Indo-European, or Aryan, were found in her grave. That they had been in China and started a war. 

Fu Hao's Tomb Ruins

Speaking of Fu Hao, many people think of her love story with Wu Ding. There are numerous references to fu Hao in documents unearthed from the Yin Ruins, the capital of the Shang Dynasty.

But the fact is that Wu Ding had more than 60 wives, and he and Fu Hao did not live together most of the time. He wrote to Fu Hao to see him when he was in a good mood. She had her own fiefdoms and was well managed. The woman herself was probably the head of a matriarchal tribe, so their relationship more like a political and military alliance before marriage was institutionalized.

Fuhao's bird-shaped wine bottle

In fighting against foreign enemies, Wu Hao (and Wu Ding's other wives) contributed to it. In the era when feminism and patriarchy alternated, she was above these systems. She was smart, brave and fascinating.