It will introduce children to the problem that China had with invasions from the North, the Great Wall of China, and ancestor worship in China. The Disney rendition departs from the original Chinese myths in several predictably American ways. B.D. Wong, Donny Osmond. Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook. Chinese civilization began more than 4,000 years ago, at the beginning of human civilization.
China has the third largest land mass of any country in the world.
Only Canada and Russia are larger. In the 5th century BC their repeated invasions caused the kingdoms of North China to begin erecting walls to keep them out. The walls were later connected into what became the Great Wall of China. The Hsiung-nu dominated much of Central Asia for more than 500 years. They were a constant threat to China's northern frontier.