Hai Rui
The theme was also the subject of a play written by Zhou Xinfang and with Xu Siyan (), "Hai Rui Submits His Memorial" (海瑞上疏, "Hai Rui Shangshu"), and the play was performed by the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe in 1959. Zhou Xinfang was also arrested and persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and died in 1975.