Factual error: During the morning training session, Shang shot an arrow to the top of the pole so his soldiers can get it, but the arrow is stuck in a horizontal position. A difficult position to achieve, for someone shooting an arrow from below. Even if the arrow hit the pole at such a point in its arc, its kinetic energy would be at its weakest, preventing it from boring into the pole.

Mulan (1998)
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Directed by: Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft
Starring: BD Wong, Eddie Murphy, Freda Foh Shen, George Takei, Harvey Fierstein, June Foray, Miguel Ferrer, Ming-Na Wen
Genres: Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Disney, Drama, Family, Musical
Other mistake: When Crickie is typing the letter for Mushu he has ink on his feet yet when he jumps on the table to wipe off his feet there aren't any ink footprints where his foot was.
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Answer: They were weights that he made everyone use to try to get the arrow. It's unknown how heavy they were but they must have been heavy enough to even make a strong guy like Chien-Po fall to the ground.