The thatched hut
Rebuilt.
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A park and museum in west Chengdu on the Huanhua, the «Flower-Washing Stream», where the Tang poet Du Fu built a thatched hut in 759 and lived for about four years, writing some 240 poems, among them his famous lines on the hut torn apart by autumn gales; it has been a national heritage site since 1961. Its ten or so hectares of bamboo groves, plum trees and lotus ponds, crossed by red walls and paths, lead to memorial halls, a rebuilt thatched cottage and stone tablets carved with his poems in famous hands, and a screen wall bears the words «Thatched Cottage» in large calligraphy. Tickets are CNY 50, and it is open from 8 am to 8 pm from May to October and to 6.30 pm in winter, per visitor guides. The gardens are quietest in the morning, and two hours is enough.
Rebuilt.
In famous hands.
Quiet gardens.
37 Qinghua Road, Qingyang District, west Chengdu
Yes, its gardens are among the loveliest and calmest in Chengdu, panels explain the poet's life in English, and two hours is enough.
