The Classic Shaping of Typical Female Images by Mulan Motif in Historical Times—Historical Review and Textual Sorting of the Motif

The image of Mulan is well known to the public as an important symbol in the dissemination of Chinese excellent traditional culture. This paper aims to summarise the mother-title from traditional canonical texts, to explore the content and value of sustainable IP development, and to study a large number of derivatives with the image of Mulan as the mother-title, based on the wide circulation of the prototype of the mother-title “The Poem of Mulan” (木兰辞) and the positive values conveyed by the content. Through the processing and imagination of scholars and writers on the mother text in the past generations, the image of Mulan has gradually formed a relatively stable cultural communication theme in the process of dissemination in China’s historical period, and many adaptations with international influence based on the mother title of Mulan have emerged in the foreign dissemination, so through the combing and summarisation of the textual works of various periods both at home and abroad, we will dig out the textual transmission of the mother title of Mulan, which is representative of the mother title of China’s excellent traditional culture, and the development of the Chinese spiritual core.The Development of the Chinese Spiritual Kernel. This paper adopts research methods such as documentary evidence method and discourse analysis to show the textual flow of Mulan’s parent theme in a more diversified form.