Mulan is a famous folk story in China. It tells the story that Mulan disguised herself as a man, joined the army instead of her father, fought in the battlefield 12 years, and made many meritorious deeds. No one found out that she was a woman. In the Tang Dynasty, he was named "General Filial Piety" and was commemorated in a shrine. The Yuefu poems compiled by Guo Maoqian in the Song Dynasty include the Yuefu folk song Mulan Poetry in the Northern Dynasty. There are different opinions on the time of its emergence, but from the historical and geographical conditions, it can be judged that things and poems may have originated in the post-Wei period. This poem originated from the folk, and in the long-term spread process, it has traces of being polished by later literati, but it basically retains the characteristics that folk songs are easy to remember and recite.

Disney's starring in Mulan is Disney's first attempt to make costume comics, and it is also Disney's first real entry into the Asian world. This is undoubtedly an exciting challenge for Disney's creators. Due to the cultural differences between the East and the West, Disney encountered unprecedented difficulties in the process of adapting stories into cartoons. Some people say that this is a story that the outer packaging is China and the internal structure is completely westernized. Some people say that this story no longer has the traditional cultural color of China, but it is up to the audience to judge.

Although this film is a combination of east and west, many people find the brand-new image of Mulan in the film very attractive, mainly because she has some minor shortcomings, and she is not a perfect god. She sometimes makes mistakes in doing things, which makes people feel that she is a very ordinary person living around us and is very real. Mulan lived in a feudal society bound by China's traditional ethics, but she was not swallowed up by this society, but changed the tradition of this society and people's views on her through her own practice.

Mulan not only used China folk stories for the first time to attract the world's attention, but also achieved the highest artistic achievement among all Disney cartoons because of its breakthrough development in animation production technology.