Hua Mulan is a heroine who took the place of her father and joined the army, described in a famous Chinese poem known as the Ballad of Mulan. It is unknown whether the story has any factual basis. The poem was written during the Northern Wei dynasty，and first recorded in the Musical Records of Old and New from Southern and Northern Dynasties.
According the description of the Ballad of Mulan, the khan of Northern dynasty ordered to recruit for the army to ward off incursions by the Rouran nomads. Her father need to perform obligation. Howere, her father was so old that he could not bear suffering from the bitterness, and she had not an elder brother to go and fight. So Mulan decided to disguised herself into a man to join the army instead of her father. Many years later, the battle was over. In view of her military exploit , the Khan of Northern dynasty offered Mulan a high official position, but she turned down the position to return to her family. She made up herself after coming back home. When her former comrades visited her at home, they were shocked to see her dressed as a woman.
Significant historical event in Chinese history
The winter of 1977, China finally opened the gate of the university entrance exam again, 5.7 million students poured into the examination room. It is the only time in history of the college entrance examination in winter. That year’s college entrance examination accumulated too much expectation. It is a nation's thirst for knowledge and a national age inflection point.
For more than 30 years, a profound influence had been made on the fate of more than ten thousand people. And it also deeply affected the fate of the whole country. At the same time, in the achievement of the country's mainstay, it created new social reality.
Return on May 24, 1977, the third time of deng xiaoping's address \"respect knowledge, respect talentso abolish the 10 year college entrance examination.
After 44 days of debate, in those days in October, the ministry of education made a feasibility scheme: the opinions of the higher school recruitment of students work in 1977.
That winter, more than 500 examinees from the age of 15 or 16 to 36 poured into the examination room. After ten years ‘ break, the University’s wheel are rolling again.
Hua Mulan
Resume Gaokao (University entrance examination)
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