Tomb of Du Wenxiu, Memorial tomb in Dali Town, China.
The Tomb of Du Wenxiu in Xiadui Village, Dali, faces south and is built of cut hemp stone. It has a 12 by 10 metre base, a 5 by 3 metre sumeru pedestal, a 4 by 2 metre tomb body and an Islamic-style hip roof, reaching 5.7 metres. A 1.7-metre marble slab on the south reads "Great Marshal Du Wenxiu's Tomb"; the north slab carries Arabic script.
Du Wenxiu's uprising failed in November 1872, when he took poison and had himself carried to the Qing camp; his head was cut off and sent to the provincial capital for inspection, while his body was buried hastily in Xiadui Village. In 1917 his son-in-law Zhang Zhixun built a tomb mound and erected a stele, which later fell into neglect. Dali County repaired the mound and recut the stele in 1956, and between 1985 and 1986 the city rebuilt the tomb, enclosing the original structure entirely within the new one.
The tomb's south face carries a 1.7 m Dali marble slab inscribed "Great Marshal Du Wenxiu's Tomb" with his birth and death dates, while the north face bears an Arabic inscription. In front stand two steles: the 1985 "Tomb of Great Marshal Du" by historian Bai Shouyi, over 1,500 characters long, and the 1986 record of the tomb's reconstruction.
The tomb stands in Xiadui Village, Xiadui Village Committee, Dali Town, about 2 km south of Dali's old town; the walled 4,600 m² cemetery has a gate and a bluestone-slab path. The grave faces south, with the 1.7 m Dali marble stele inscribed "大元帅杜文秀墓" on that side and an Arabic inscription on the north face. The 1985 stele by historian Bai Shouyi stands to the left of the tomb, the 1986 rebuilding record to the right.
The tomb was listed on 13 January 1983 as a Yunnan provincial cultural relic, in the second batch of such designations. The 1985 rebuilding enclosed the original 1917 grave mound entirely inside the new structure, and the old mound was left largely untouched. A 1,500-character stele by historian Bai Shouyi stands to the left of the tomb.
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