Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:58 pm Post subject: DuFu Thatched Cottage Museum
The Thatched Cottage of Du Fu covers a total area of 24 hectares (about
59 acres), and is the combination of both Fan'an Temple in the east & the
Plum Garden in the west.
Construction inside The Thatched Cottage of Du Fu belongs to the Qing
Dynasty (1644-1911) style, with gardens in the unique compound style
of traditional Chinese gardening.
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: Famous Poet's Home ...
Located on the bank of the Huanhua Brook in a western suburb of Chengdu,
the Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum is not a cottage in the literal sense.
It is a commemorative museum including a traditional Chinese garden built
at the site where the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770), constructed a
thatched cottage for his family in 760.
A native of Gongxian County in Central China's Henan Province, Du moved
to Chengdu in 759 to take refuge from the war. In the following spring, he
built a cottage by the Flower Bathing Brook with the financial assistance
of a friend. There he lived a peaceful life for about four years, writing 240
of his 1,400 poems.
Du's poems are known for sympathetic portrayals of human suffering and
bitterness in the face of injustice and corruption. In 761, the roof of his
cottage was destroyed in a storm. That led him to think of the difficulties
of other poverty-stricken scholars.
The experience led him to write a poem in which he said he would die
content in his leaky cottage if the less fortunate could find shelter.
Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:09 am Post subject: I was there ten years ago. Really impressed by the bamboo
forests. But the air is too damp for people from dry areas. _________________ The world is not perfect. That's why so many people are pursuing perfectness and in the proces change other people along with themselves into better human beings.
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