This is a 1962 Hong Kong drama partially shot on location at West Lake in Hangzhou China. It centers on a young woman known as Little Su (Su Xiao Xiao) a famous courtesan and poet who died in the year 501 AD at the age of 22. The story is a mixture of historical record and legends that are used to present the heroine within a certain ideological backdrop.

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