Hung Ya Film Company

Ma Qing-tang (Yangming), the son of a fisherman, lost his father at a young age and found himself alone in the world, with no one to turn to. At the age of ten, he was fortunately taken in by the gentleman Huang Jin-sheng (Shang Bo). Qing-tang was intelligent and filial, and was deeply loved by Jin-sheng. Huang had a daughter, Juanjuan (Ding Dai), who was beautiful and demure, and of a similar age to Qing Tang. From childhood, the two had been inseparable, as close as siblings. Huang’s mother doted on her son, De Xiu (Fu Qinghua), as if he were her own life, whilst treating Qing Tang with particular harshness; De Xiu, emboldened by his mother’s favour, went to great lengths to bully and torment Qing Tang.