Mulan grandmother. She cares deeply about mulan and her safety as shown by her reaction when learning that mulan has run away to join the army. She faces the worst enemy chinas ever seen the hun leader shan yu who has an army willing to destroy anything in their path. Fa mulan is a young female who is willing to give up her life to save her father.
Grandma fa is mulans grandmother. When fa li laments that she should have prayed to the ancestors for luck despite the fact that in real life chinese women during this time were never allowed to pray to the ancestors grandmother points out that they cant be that lucky as they are dead. In the original mulans grandmother prays to their ancestors to help mulan and they send her mushu the familys dragon voiced by eddie murphy.
Grandmother fa first appears in town waiting on the tardy mulan alongside fa li. Like her husband she seems to be very traditional. Grandmother fa is a supporting character in disneys 1998 animated feature film mulan.
She then opens her eyes and tells cri kee he really is lucky. As her name suggests she is presumably the paternal grandmother of fa mulan the mother of mulans father fa zhou. She is fairly elderly with white hair.
She enters the army as a man named ping. Mushu tiny and goofy provides comic relief throughout the film but also contributes significantly to the films plot. Background fa li is the wife of fa zhou and the mother of mulan.