25. “The Ballad Of Mulan” Exists In Many Different Versions
The first version appeared in China somewhere around the fifth or sixth century CE, during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties. Its earliest iteration is known as “Musical Records of Old and New.”
In the time since there have been plays and other stories written about the legendary female warrior. The different versions place the hero as living at different periods in Chinese history, with one placing her at the beginning of the Tang dynasty, at about the year 620 CE. However, this would have been after the legendary figure, if she lived at all, would have lived.