Chengdu Du Fu’s Thatched Cottage (in simplified Chinese成都杜甫草堂) is built after Du Fu.
Du Fu (712-770), the Son of the Arts, is the most famous poet in the history of our country. He was also known as “Shisheng.”, that is “God of Poet”.
2 years after the “An-Shih Rebellion” in Tang Qianyuan (759 years) , he went to Chengdu, near the river built cottage door. The Du Fu Thatched Cottage is the former residence of Du Fu, and is located in the western suburbs of Chengdu Ocean Shores. Du Fu can to Chengdu with a lot of difficulties and by the help of friends at West Shores, he was able to build the cottage. He lived here for nearly 4 years, and wrote more than 240 poems. Many famous lines were written here.
In order to commemorate the great poet, since the Northern Song Dynasty, someone at the poet’s former home on the Office Park building the landscape for people to pay respects. Du Fu’s Thatched Cottage’s real structure has no longer existed. Now the cottage, are in fact built after Dufu Memory as a beautiful garden with an area of about 300 acres, having Meiyuan Nan Lin, Bamboo Millennium, etc.
Chamber of staggered streams little bridge, so that the poet’s previous home had unlimited poetic. “Great workplace” Chan kept painting and Du Fu Du Fu Tong Quanjing introduce life.
Du Fu’s Thatched Cottage in streams surrounded by verdant bamboo, Chi Kok Hidden Units at a pair of flowers and trees, are of a rather special garden. It is now a key national heritage conservation unit.
Actually, if you are Chinese culture-lover, you should surely visit this place as Du Fu, a great Chinese culture builder, wrote many great lines in this place. Therefore, you should have a look at this place and you might be able to get some inspiration and compose some great poems!