Du Fu's Cottage

Located by the Blossom-Bathing Brook, Du Fu's Cottage is well-known as the former residence of Du Fu, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, during his stay in Chengdu. In the winter of the year 759, Du Fu fled into Sichuan to be away from the An-Shi Rebellion. He set up a straw-roofed house named Chengdu Thatched Cottage, where he lived for about four years and composed more than 240 poems that are still popular today. The renovation in Emperor Jiaqing’s reign in Qing Dynasty had set the scale and layout of the present thatched cottage, which covers a total area of 300 mu (or about 20 hectares)). Today, the cottage is a renowned shrine to Chinese culture, with a combination of memorials and Du Fu’s residence, simple ancient architecture and elegant beautiful gardening.