This is one of the most influential Hong Kong films in the 1980s. Known as "Tsui Hark's masterpiece of art and entertainment", Tsui Hark himself said it was his masterpiece in the 1980s.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the country was in turmoil and the warlord regime led to the decline of people's livelihood. She is the daughter of the great warlord general Cao and a patriot. But I didn't want to see my father help Yuan Shikai borrow huge sums of money from foreign banks in the name of the country, which made the national finance worse, so I secretly contacted the revolutionaries. However, as a country and a father at the same time, Cao Yun was caught in an inner struggle. Bai Niu (Sally Yeh) grew up in Chunhe's troupe and was treated as a maid by the father of the troupe owner (Wuma). She is crazy about singing and always wants to perform on stage, but she has no chance. Hong Xiang (Cherie Chung) is a greedy geisha who steals a large box of jewelry from a warlord's house when he escapes, but mistakenly transports the jewelry to He Chun's class. These three people met by chance, and through the interweaving of the lives of the three protagonists, * * * composed a patriotic Peking Opera blues.