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The Story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who is bullied by an arrogant relative of the Qiu Shan ministry. In the heat of the ensuing battle he kills the said man and is hence chased by the district's officials. Trying to use the waterway to shake off his enemies,
Yu Quan finds a true friend in the old fisherman's bark-stearing daughter, Hu Feng Lian (Ting Hung) who becomes his loyal accomplice. As symbol for his gratitude, Yu Quan bestows Feng Lian with a Butterfly Chalice to reflect their eternal friendship bond... 
Master Zhi Zhang is drunk again, so his Disciple Siu Chen (Wang Yu) gets hired for a religious Ceremony. Siu realises that posing as a fake spiritual Master could bring him a lot of Money, so calls himself "Master Siu" and pretends being possessed by different Gods. Finally he settles in a town suffering from the harsh rule of a local crime boss whose loansharking activities have put a lot of farmers in his debt. Along the way, Siu has picked up a female sidekick, Jin Lian, who dresses as a man and helps him out with his tricks. Eventually, Master Siu becomes so confident of his own powers that he stands up to the loanshark and his gang and teaches the people kung fu to defend themselves. When a pair of wanted outlaws, both kung fu experts in their own right, come to town to help the crime boss, they expose Siu's trickery and put him in a real bind. 
Diau Charn was the first color film made at Shaw Brothers Studios. Linda Lin Dai plays the title character, an orphaned girl who works for a government minister in ancient China (ca. 190 A.D.) and is recruited to participate in a plot to topple the cruel tyranny of Prime Minister Dong Zuo. To sum up the plot line, the minster, Wang Yun (Yang Chi-ching), has Diau Charn masquerade as his daughter and, during a visit to the Prime Minister's palace, he promises the girl to the Prime Minister's adopted son, General Lu Bu (Chao Lei), who is quite taken with her (and she with him). The crafty Wang Yun then visits the Prime Minister, Dong Zuo (Lo Wei) and he promises Diau Charn to him as well. Dong Zuo thereupon takes her as his mistress and sets her up in his house right away. When the lovestruck General Lu discovers this, he angrily protests, but Wang Yun lies about it in an effort to turn General Lu against Dong Zuo. Eventually, after the inevitable clash, Wang Yun confronts Diau Charn with yet another task, one that places her in an untenable moral dilemma. 
