Person
A Hui Muslim leader (1823–1872) who led the Panthay rebellion against the Qing in Yunnan, and ruled from Dali as “Sultan Sulayman”.
What it means
Du Wenxiu led a rising of Hui Muslims in Yunnan from 1856, after years of massacres and persecution, set up a state at Dali, and took the title Sulayman. The Qing army took Dali in 1872, and he was executed.