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Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage is located at No. 37 Qinghua Road, Qingyang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is 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.
The thatched cottage covers an area of ??nearly 300 acres. It completely retains the 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). The architecture is simple and elegant. The garden is quiet and beautiful, and it is a sacred place in the history of Chinese literature. The Du Fu Memorial Hall was established in 1955 and changed its name to Chengdu Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum in 1985.
Chengdu Food Recommendations
Long Chao Shou has thin skin and tender filling, smooth and fragrant, and the soup is thick and white. The hand wrapper is made of special flour and a few ingredients, kneaded carefully and slowly, and rolled into a translucent shape as thin as paper and as fine as silk. The meat filling is tender, smooth, fragrant and delicious. The original soup of Long Chaoshou is made from several parts of chicken, duck and pig, which are stewed and simmered slowly. The original soup is white, thick and fragrant.
Tofu pudding is the simplest appetizing delicacy in Sichuan and Chongqing. It is tender and soft, so tender that it is smooth in the mouth, but soft enough to be picked up with chopsticks. It does not break or break. What you eat is the fragrance of tofu pudding. And the spicy flavor of dipping it in water. Dandan noodles are a famous snack in Chengdu. They are made of noodles rolled into flour, cooked, and topped with fried minced pork. The cooked noodles are thin, the marinade is crispy and fragrant, salty and slightly spicy, fragrant and very delicious.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Chengdu