decided to surrender the next morning, telling his council that: "What you have said is true. If this generalissimo [Du] decides to fight to the death, then truly not even a chicken or dog will be left alive. If this generalissimo leaves the city, then I can save the old and the young."He had handed himself over to the Qing hoping that the city's residents would be spared, telling General Yang Yuke "spare the people (shao sharen)". However the Qing troops carried out a bloody massacre of the Hui populace; killing ten thousand people (four thousand of whom were women, children and the elderly). Du's head was encased in honey & sent to Beijing along with 24 baskets filled with the ears of the dead Du's body is entombed in Xiadui. His capital was Dali. The revolt ended in 1873. Du Wenxiu is regarded as a hero by the present day government of China. Du Wenxiu's life and related historical facts are a major element of Tariq Ali's novel Night of the Golden Butterfly. Notes 19th-century Chinese people 1823 births 1872 deaths Hui people People from Baoshan, Yunnan Chinese Muslims Qing dynasty people Suicides in the Qing dynasty Generals from Yunnan Founding monarchs