Museum
杜甫草堂
Riverside garden and reconstructed thatched hut where a Tang-dynasty poet lived through years of exile.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Du Fu Thatched Cottage in Chengdu follows the Tang-dynasty poet's years here as a war refugee beginning in 761, when he built a bamboo hut by Flower Rinsing Brook with no money and no official post. It centers on an ordinary visit from a local official named Cui, and the poem Du Fu wrote about having almost nothing in his kitchen to offer a guest. He wrote more than two hundred poems in this garden during his stay, many about hunger, cold and the small comforts he shared with neighbors.
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