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Du Fu Thatched Cottage
28 Caotang Rd, Qingyang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, 610072 Phone: +86 28 8731 9258About
Thatched Cottage of Du Fu is the former residence of the famous Tang Dynasty poet, Du Fu. Compelled by poverty and social upheaval in the year of 759 A.D., Du Fu moved from Gansu Province to the outskirts of Chengdu and built a thatched hut.During nearly four years of his stay here, Du Fu composed more than 240 poems reflecting upon the misery and the real life of the common people. Although the original residence disappeared long ago, the site was renovated in the Ming and Qing dynasties and enlarged to its present scale as a park with fine gardening.
A symbolic thatched hut was built to give visitor association to the original site. The poet's thatched cottage is esteemed as the holy land of Chinese traditional literature, and the place to memorize this Saint of Poem.
