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This article is about Competing Memory over the Panthay Rebellion(1856-1874). In the Yunnan(雲南) region at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were frequent conflicts of interest between the Elites of Hui people(回民) and Han Chinese Elites, and officials of the Qing Dynasty, who intervened in the process, frequently chose to slaughter the Hui people. In 1856, five years after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, a popular revolt led by Du Wen-xiu(杜文秀) broke out. These forces soon took control of the western part of Yunnan. And he ruled the western part of Yunnan around Dali(大理) for 18 years. But in 1872, the revolt was suppressed by Chen Yu-ying(岑毓英), a Qing Dynasty official from Zhuang People(壯族). The Qing army carried out a massive massacre of the Hui people of Yunnan area. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, there has been a debate on the nature of this revolt, one claiming was a regime that represents the interests of merchants and landowners, and the other claiming was a peasant revolutionary regime. On the other hand, the following story spread. Du Wen-xiu, the leader of the revolt, built an independent Muslim country(Sultanate) with the support of the United Kingdom, and after the military campaign against the Kunming failed in 1869, he sent a delegation to the United Kingdom to dedicate the Yunnan region to become a servant and asked for military assistance in return. For this reason, in the official history of Chinese history, Du Wen-xiu began to be remembered as a traitor. Some scholars argued against it, but it was not enough. The insanity of the Cultural Revolution wiped out the debate itself, and the 1975 massacre of the Hui people of the Shadian region of Yunnan took place. After the Cultural Revolution, the debate became active again, and Du Wen-xiu regained some honor. Especially in the Yunnan region, Du Wen-xiu became a “ethnic” hero whom the Hui people are proud of, and the controversy has almost disappeared since the mid-1990s. But since 2001, the independence movement in the Uighur region of the Xinjiang(Easter Turk) has reinforced the interpretation of history that criticizes Du Wen-xiu as a national traitor. And this became explicit in the process of scholars of Zhuang People glorifying the hero of Zhuang People, Cen Yu-ying. In the end, this unnerved the Hui people historians who had memories of the massacre twice, and led many papers to be published between 2009 and 2010, which opposed the claim that Du Wen-xiu tried to sell the country.