Everyone knows about Mulan, and visiting the Mulan Temple brings mixed feelings of joy and sorrow

The Mulan Temple, also known as the Mulan Shrine and the 'Filial and Heroic General Shrine', is located in Mulan Town, Yucheng County, Shangqiu City, the hometown of Mulan. It is a key tourist attraction and cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province. The Mulan Temple has existed since the Tang Dynasty and has been renovated in every dynasty. In 1992, the Yucheng County Government invested heavily in its renovation to preserve its history of over a thousand years and to continue to honor the heroic woman admired by the world. In 1999, it was designated as a patriotic education base by the Propaganda Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee and is a must-visit spot for many tourists in Shangqiu. Every year, around Mulan's birthday on the eighth day of April, people from the bordering provinces of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Anhui come to the temple for trade and festivities. This is what attracted us to the Mulan Temple, but the site is still littered with garbage, miscellaneous items, and unused scaffolding; the cemetery gate is tightly closed, and the view through the bars reveals overgrown weeds. What's more puzzling is that the toilets in the temple are like dry toilets, with sewage flowing everywhere, making it difficult to enter. Having visited many major and minor attractions in twenty provinces over the past three years, this place's dirtiness, disorder, and poor condition are unique. In my opinion, this site is unworthy of the title of a key cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province, and it brings shame to the title of a patriotic education base. Moreover, it is disrespectful to the tourists from all over the world who come to pay homage to the heroic Mulan.