明王朝末叶,正是政治腐败,民不聊生,民族矛盾和阶级矛盾交错发展得十分激烈的年代。影片通过当时发生在留都南京的复社文人侯朝宗与秦淮歌妓李香君的一段悲欢离合的故事,反映出南明一代兴亡的过程。片中有力地刻划了嫉恶如仇、具有正义思想的风尘少女李香君的坚贞不屈、不畏权势的高贵品质和动人形象,描写她为了维护她所敬爱的复社文人侯朝宗的清白声名,不受魏阉余党阮大铖的收买,毅然退还阮大铖资助的妆奁,揭破了奸党无耻的阴谋而遭到一连串的迫害。当马、阮权奸仗势强逼她嫁与田仰为妾时,她抱定宁死不从的坚毅态度 At the end of the Ming dynasty, precisely the time when political corruption, popular feelings, ethnic conflicts and class contradictions staggered and developed very intensely. The story of the film passing through the joys and sorrows of Hou Zuzong, a composer who stayed in Nanjing and Li Xiangjun of Qinhuai Geisha, then reflected the process of the rise and fall of the Nanming generation. The film effectively depicts the detestable, the justice of the dusty girl Li Xiangjun’s unyielding, defiant of the noble quality and touching image, describes her in order to defend her benevolent compound writer Hou Chazong’s innocence, not by the Wei The acquisition of Nguyen Phu Yen, a ranture party, resolutely returned the makeup that Nguyen was supporting and exposed a series of persecutions by exposing the shameless conspiracy of the party. When the horse, Nguyen emphatically enforced forced her to marry Tian Tian concubine, she embraced rather die rather than perseverance