Du Fu's Thatched Cottage has been a shrine in the history of Chinese literature. It was dilapidated and collapsed after Du Fu left. It came to the period of the Former Shu Kingdom during the Five Dynasties when Wei Zhuang, a famous poet, found the site and rebuilt the cottage. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the cottage was built into a temple and Du Fu's portrait was painted on the wall. In the following dynasties, the cottage was renovated and enlarged tome and time again, the most important two renovations were in 1500 and 1811 which basically settled its present scale and structure. The most lately thorough renovation was renamed as the Du Fu Memorial Hall; In 1961, it was announced by the state council as the key cultural relic protection site, in 1984 it obtained its present name, the Du Fu's Thatched Cottage Museum.

The inside of Du Fu's Thatched Cottage represents Qing Dynasty style, with gardens of the unique compound style in Chinese gardening tradition. In February 1997, the government allotted a special fund to rebuild the cottage itself. The newly-built cottage shows typical style of the west Sichuan home residence. The site is to the north of the Tablet Pavilion, covering an area of 1000 square meters with a construction area of 240 square meters. The cottage has 5 main and 4 attached rooms, with the thatched roofs and the old fashioned inside empty wall made of two layers of bamboo strip and spread on the surface with clay. Around the house are bamboo fences and inside the fences are vegetable and herb plots, easily reminding people of the scenes described in Du Fu's poems. While taking a quiet walk in such a historical cultural environment, visitors are apt to be brought back to the ancient times.

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