On the modern inheritance of the folk song “Mulan” from Disney’s animated film “Mulan”

Abstract

Disney’s animated film “Mulan” is based on the Yuefu folk song “Mulan Ci” during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China, which makes a wonderful interpretation of the folklore story of Hua Mulan serving in the army instead of her father, and makes an innovative and reasonable adaptation of it in line with the value orientation of modern people, successfully injecting new vitality into traditional Chinese culture. By analyzing the innovative design of the film in terms of content and plot, this paper explores the adaptation ideas of the animated film “Mulan” and the values it conveys and promotes, which provides an empirical reference for how to creatively adapt and innovatively develop traditional Chinese culture in China in the future, and thinks about how to realize the modern inheritance of traditional Chinese culture on the basis of promoting and abandoning.