Dynasties aren't the only thing that determines China's history, geography plays a role too. China is composed of different climates with different features in different regions of the country. Natural products are largely dependent on rainfall. Some of its exports include wheat, barley, rice, textiles, silk, an a variety of teas. During the Stone Age there was a lot of cultural change such as how people began living together in settled places. They also cultivated land, domesticated animals, and made polished stone tools. Also a 4,000 year old writing system enabled the Chinese people to communicate with each other and maintain a cultural identity.
Can you think of any Disney princess who is Chinese? Congratulations if you guessed Mulan, and if not I don't think you know your Disney princesses that well. In the 1988 animated film, the main character Fa Mulan takes her father's place in a current war against the Huns. She goes to the training camp and pretends to be a guy there (no one suspected a thing. You'd think someone would notice.) and trains to fight. Well the inspiration came from a legend called The Ballad of Mulan, where there is the same plot as the movie except for the fact that the main characters name in the legend is Hua Mulan.
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