tl;dr it's a high budget kids movie with heavy nationalist and militaristic overtones – even rewriting the ancient poem's protagonist Mulan from a Mongolian ethnic minority to a Han Chinese (majority ethnic group) – starring a cop lover as the main actress send tweet https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1301953198572417030

Even as a 10 y/o when the cartoon came out, Disney could not sell me a dragon named “Mushu” as representation. (Is that food?)

That said, the ancient poem is a banger and listen to this person unpack it line by line. Most HK kids learned this in school:

Also a line from the poem:

“I wish to ride a swift mount
To take me back to my home.”

Same girl same

Full English translation here: http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/mulan.pdf