Worth a look.
Du Fu Thatched Cottage is a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national AAAA tourist attraction, a national first-class museum, and a national key protection unit for ancient books.
Du Fu Thatched Cottage is located on the bank of Huanhua Creek outside the west gate of Chengdu. It was the former residence of Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty in China, when he lived in Chengdu. Du Fu lived here for nearly four years and wrote more than 240 poems. The poet Wei Zhuang in the late Tang Dynasty found the ruins of the thatched cottage and rebuilt the thatched cottage to preserve it. It was repaired and expanded in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Today’s thatched cottage covers an area of ??nearly 300 acres, and still retains the complete architectural layout of the renovation and expansion in the 13th year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1500 AD) and the 16th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1811 AD). Simple and elegant, with quiet and beautiful gardens, it is a holy land in the history of Chinese literature. The Du Fu Memorial Hall was established in 1955 and renamed Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum in 1985. It is the largest, best-preserved, best-known and most distinctive site of Du Fu's whereabouts in China, with more than one million visitors annually.
Attraction Overview
The thatched cottage completely retains the layout of the Jiaqing reconstruction in the Qing Dynasty, with a total area of ??nearly 300 acres. The garden is a very unique "hybrid" Chinese classical garden. The museum is divided into functional areas: cultural relics tourist area (former site of Caotang), garden tourist area (Plum Garden) and service area (Caotang Temple). In the old site of the thatched cottage, the screen wall, main entrance, Daxi, Shishi Hall, Chaimen, and Gongbu Temple are arranged on a central axis, with symmetrical corridors and other ancillary buildings on both sides. There are flowing water, small bridges, and bamboo trees in the middle. It looks solemn, simple and elegant, yet deep, quiet, beautiful and clear. To the east of the Gongbu Temple is the "Shaoling Thatched Cottage" stele pavilion, which symbolizes Du Fu's thatched cottage and has become the iconic attraction of Du Fu's Thatched Cottage and a famous landscape in Chengdu.
The word "Thatched Cottage" on the plaque on the main entrance of Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu was written by Aisin Gioro Yunli, the 17th son of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. The Shishi Hall is the central building of the Du Fu Thatched Cottage memorial temple. In the middle of the Hall of Poetry and History is a statue of Du Fu sculpted by the sculptor Liu Kaiqu. The hall displays couplets and plaques inscribed by celebrities from past dynasties. There is a portrait of Du Fu enshrined in the Gongbu Temple, and there are also poets Lu You and Huang Tingjian who once lived in Shu. To the east of the Gongbu Temple is the "Shaoling Thatched Cottage" stele pavilion, which symbolizes Du Fu's thatched cottage. "Shaoling" was originally a place name. The tomb of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was called "Du Ling". The tomb of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty was called "Shaoling" because it was smaller in size than the imperial mausoleum. Mausoleum". Du Fu lived here for a long time, and in his poems he called himself "Du Ling Ye Lao" and "Shaoling Ye Ke", so he was called "Du Shaoling". Behind the Gongbu Temple is the "Thatched Cottage Scenic Area" which was restored and rebuilt in 1997 based on Du Fu's description of poetry and the Ming Dynasty pattern and the characteristics of folk houses in western Sichuan. It recreated the pastoral style of the poet's former residence and created a strong poetic atmosphere; there is also a Du Fu Thatched Cottage located in The quaint and unique "Thatched Cottage" screen wall is inlaid with broken porcelain and is framed by red walls and slender bamboos. In the bonsai garden, there is the "Du Shi Calligraphy Woodcut Gallery" built in 1999, which displays more than a hundred pieces of Du Shi's calligraphy woodcut works. They were selected from thousands of authentic Du Shi calligraphy works by famous people in the past dynasties and carved with nanmu. It is of great ornamental value, and its poetry, calligraphy, materials and craftsmanship are known as the "Four Wonders". The Ten Thousand Buddhas Tower, which was rebuilt in 2005, stands in the nanmu forest to the east of the thatched cottage, restoring the style of Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city with "Chongli Pavilion in the east and Ten Thousand Buddhas Tower in the west". Located in the "Daya Hall", the third major majestic hall of the original Fan'an Temple ancient building complex, there are so far the largest large-scale glazed inlaid lacquer murals in China (64 square meters) and 12 sculptures of famous poets from past dynasties, vividly displaying the The life of Du Fu and the development history of Chinese classical poetry; the basic display in the museum, "Poems and Poems for a Thousand Years", won the Best Creative Award in the fifth "National Top Ten Display Exhibitions".