Mentioning the ancient national heroine Hua Mulan, I believe that everyone will not be unfamiliar with, throughout the ages, Hua Mulan on behalf of his father in the army has been widely circulated, and has become a role model for people to sing the praises of. As we all know, Hua Mulan is a woman with a bold character, following her father from childhood to dance with swords and spears, with a full set of martial arts.
During Emperor Xiaowen's reforms, a man from each family was required to go to the front line of the crusade against the Zoroastrians, and Mulan's father was very old and her younger brother was very young. After consideration, Mulan decides to disguise herself as a woman and take her father's place on the battlefield. After entering the military camp, Hua Mulan repeatedly built up her battle achievements and made great contributions, and was later posthumously awarded the title of ? General Xiaolie? Some people wonder, Hua Mulan stayed in the military camp for 12 years, how come no one found out her woman's identity? In my opinion, there may be the following three reasons.
Hua Mulan came to the military camp, served as a messenger, usually alone, there is no opportunity to contact the other soldiers, naturally, will not worry about other people to see their own identity of women. What's more, no one would even think that there would be a woman disguised as a man to mix into the barracks.
The second reason was that Hua Mulan had performed well in the barracks and managed to get promoted, earning her the reward of living alone in a single tent. The single tent became the safest place for her to hide her identity without anyone coming in and disturbing her. In the long run, no one would even notice that there was something wrong with her identity.
The last reason could be because of Hua Mulan's looks, which were a bit on the neutral side. Even if the soldiers stared at her face and looked closely, they couldn't tell that she was a woman's appearance, so naturally they wouldn't be suspicious. Not only Hua Mulan, there had been similar things abroad. There was once a Spanish girl, also disguised as a man, joined the Spanish Army, has not been discovered, and later or seriously injured, the identity was exposed. However, from the photo, it seems that there is really no difference with the male soldiers!