THE BRAND FILM · 品牌影片
She set out with a story.
She came home with a tea.
Over a thousand years ago,
she rode to war — in order to return.
A thousand years later,
so does this cup of tea.
We do not retell the legend — we return her choice to a cup of tea today.
Her five temperaments — courage, love, devotion, wisdom, return — live in every Mulan work today: a tea, an object, a room, a gathering. What judges it is not the legend, but the sip in your cup.
MULAN TEA STORY®, born in Hangzhou. From one cup of tea grew a world — objects, spaces and people, all extensions of this cup.
Eighteen
當戶織
At the loom, she was an ordinary daughter. 唧唧復唧唧 — the story begins with a loom.
Twenty
代父從軍
Twelve scrolls of conscription arrive. She rides in her father's place, and holds the choice in her own hands.
Twenty-six
策馬守土
Cold air carries the night watch; winter light lies on iron armor. Twelve years pass, and none beside her knows she is a woman.
Thirty
歸來
No minister's rank she asks; only a swift horse to carry her home. However far one goes, one can return.
From one figure,
to a way of living.
Tea, objects, spaces, culture — a world of Mulan.
Mulan
is not a character.
We chose Mulan not because she belongs to the past, but because she belongs to today.
She knows where she comes from, and dares to go farther. Courage need not be loud. Strength need not strike.
She walked the world, and stayed true to herself.
A JOURNEY.
A RETURN.
To set out is courage. To return, also.
WHY TEA · 為什麼從茶開始
Through tea,
we learn time.
A leaf begins in soil and season, passes through judgment, craft and fire, and settles quietly into a cup.
Tea does not need to prove itself loudly. Mountain, rain, light and human patience are held in one clear cup. So we begin with tea — the way Mulan first met the world.
