On this day 88 years ago, on April 26, 1937 (March 16, 1937 in the lunar calendar), Soong Ching Ling and others launched an operation to rescue the Seven Gentlemen. On April 26, 1937, Soong Ching Ling, He Xiangning, and others launched a campaign to rescue the leaders of the National Assembly from imprisonment. They wrote to the Kuomintang Central Committee and wrote to the Suzhou High Court, saying: "Guilty and punishment, and innocence and freedom." This movement was launched for April 3, when the Kuomintang High Procuratorate prosecuted Shen Junru and other seven leaders of the National Assembly (the Seven Gentlemen), framing them in the name of "harming the Republic of China".