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Dufu Cottage

The Du Fu Cottage was the former residence of the poet's retreat in Tang dynasty. Located in the western suburbs of Chengdu city, the place is surrounded by a stream, ancient style architecture, pavilion pagodas and old trees. The total area of the Cottage is about 200,000 square meters. Its structure is after the style of the Han period.

For not a skilled survivor in government politics, Du Fu, one of the greatest poets in Tang dynasty, moved to Sichuan to take refuge and built a thatched hut at the bank of Huanhua Stream, which he praised it as cottage in 759. He stayed there for 3 years and 9 months composing more than 240 poems, many of which were com posed with the Cottage as the subject at the sight striking a chord in his heart.

There is a huge collection of more than 30,000 volumes of different kinds of materials and over 2000 pieces of historical relics in the Du Fu Cottage Museum.