At the end of the Qing Dynasty, on the eve of the Guangzhou Uprising, Wong Fei-hung was invited by the International Medical Association to travel to Guangzhou with Leung Foon and Siu Kwan to settle a dispute with the White Lotus Sect and to meet Sun Wen and Lu Haodong.
The White Lotus Sect, the predecessor of the Boxer Rebellion, was crazy, pretending to be gods and goddesses, killing innocents indiscriminately and promoting the idea that “divine power protects the body and is invulnerable to swords and spears”, and burned down the Western School. Wong Fei-hung was dissatisfied with the White Lotus Sect’s brutalization of innocents, and faced a large number of innocent students to save them, and then later got the help of Luk Hao-tung and stayed in the British consulate.
The Qing dynasty governor to deal with the British consulate in the revolutionaries, to assist the White Lotus Sect siege consulate, Huang Fei-hong bravely broke into the headquarters of the White Lotus Sect, killed the Nine Palace real person, to break the magic power to pretend to be God’s tricks.
Wong Fei-hung escorts Lu Haodong to fetch a list of revolutionaries, but he is pursued by a Manchurian governor. Lu Haodong dies of his wounds, Wong Fei-hung kills the governor in a duel, and Sun Wen and the others leave safely by boat at the Guangzhou pier.
The content of the movie is fictional, the real Wong Fei-hung had no relationship with the revolutionary party, and did not know Sun Yat-sen, Lu Haodong and others.
1992 / Hong Kong, China / Drama, Action, Romance, Knight-errant, Costume / Tsui Hark / Jet Li, Kwan Chi Lin
The White Lotus followers take orders from the Manchu minister Nalan Yuanshu (Donnie Yen) to deal with the revolutionaries, and use the slogan of “Support the Qing Dynasty and Destroy the Foreigners” to cause havoc on the embassies and churches of the foreigners in Guangzhou, even the elementary school students are not spared, which makes Wong Fei-hung (Jet Li), Thirteen Aunts (Lynn Kwan) and Leung Kwan (Mok Siu Chung) extremely angry. They are furious.
At a medical conference, Wong Fei-hung meets Sun Wen (Zhang Tie Lin), the leader of the revolutionary party, and when he realizes that the revolutionaries are more far-sighted about saving the country, he decides to help the revolutionaries escape from their fate.
Subsequently, he defeats the White Lotus Sect’s headquarter and exposes its superstitions, and fights Nalan Yuanshu to the death as he laments the decline of the country’s fortunes and the end of the people’s wisdom.
