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Instructor’s NameJune 10, 15The Adaption of Chinese Traditional Legend MuLan Abstract MuLan is a legend story from ancient China back to Bei Dynasty. The original story is telling a girl called Mu Lan, she disguised herself as a man to join the army on behalf of her sick and old father. As the legend is influential in history, there are lots of adaptions came to the market, and the most influential one is the classic movie from Walt Disney. This assay will be focus about the points of view which different from original legend and the movie. By the character Mu Lan, the adaption version changed the Chinese traditional woman future into a girl who is more western and vivid and she has more friends in movie than legend ; The movie also added the element of love with Li Xiang; Also, the description of war in detail has been added than original. The theme of the movie portrayed a girl who is self-fulfillment, chasing for freedom and love which the original legend did not tell this part. That is the reason Walt Disney’s culture background entitled this change. There are 3 parts of my essay :The exploration of the original legend and the adaption movie, what are the changed parts ; The analysis of why these adaption happened; My understanding of the adaption, which version I prefer and why. Part I The Chinese Legend Mu Lan The Walt Disney Mu Lan The original legend story was wrote in ancient China. To say the background of that time, during the war, every family in her country need to contribute a male person to join the army. In Mu Lan’s family, there is only a man there, her father who is really sick and old. So the story starts :“jiji (the sound of loom), there is no sound of the loom but only heavily sigh from Mu Lan. Ask she what is she thinking, she said yesterday I saw the military conscription. There is no brothers in my family ,I have only a old father. I am willing to go instead of my father. Mu Lan bought all the things need and farewell to her parents, join