

That would cause dishonor, shame and exile to her and the family name. According to the marriage match maker the qualities of a good wife is to be quiet, composed, graceful, elegant, poised, refined, and staying in line behind her husband.Ī woman with Chi was called a witch because that was not considered the norm. Winning in battle meant that a soldier was Loyal, Brave and True.ĭaughters only brought honor to the family through marriage. Chi is that vital life force, the synchronization of mind and body. According to Chinese customs “Chi was for warriors”, and war was reserved for sons.

The problem arose because ‘she’, was not born a, ‘he’. Shang had even clutched it in his hand as he thought about Mulan's point of view with forced marriages, before riding off to save her from marrying a man she doesn't love so she could complete the mission.The story of Mulan is about the daughter who was born with Chi.

Later on, when Shang was found by his horse and pulled out of the river, his necklace was still around his neck. Mulan and Shang look at their necklaces when they are thinking about their feelings for each other and what Zhou had told them before they left for their mission, as they question rather or not if they were too different to be happy together. When they embraced each other after apologizing for their shot, earlier fight, the two necklaces got tangled up with each other until Mulan untangled them. Li placed the Yang necklace around Mulan's neck while Zhou gave the Yin necklace to Shang, so they may become like sun and rain as they build their future together and be in balance with their differences. Mulan was a little surprised that her parents were giving them their necklaces before Li told them that they were once worn by their great-grandparents and were now being given to them. Not long after the happy couple got word from the Emperor and were getting ready to ride off and met with him, Zhou and Li told them the importance of balance with the sun and rain to make the flowers of their blossom tree grow and bloom they took off the necklaces from around their necks and put the Yin-Yang pieces together as they showed it to them. Mulan and Shang's Necklaces are a pair of necklaces that Fa Zhou and Fa Li gave to Fa Mulan and Li Shang, before they rode off for their mission in Mulan II.Īt the engagement party that Grandmother Fa organized, Zhou and Li could see that Mulan and Shang weren't in balance as they thought since their answers for the guests' questions were different from each others' so they decided to give their wedding gift to them a bit earlier they had planned.
