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Du Fu’s Thatched Cottage, also called Dugong Hall, is located at the gateway of Feilong Gorge, 3.5km southeast of Chengxian County, Longnan city. It is a memorial building, commemorating a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, Du Fu, who spent his drifting days like a refugee here in Tonggu. It is also the one with the longest history among current 37 Thatched Cottages of Du Fu.

In the October of 759 AD, the 2nd year of the Qianyuan period under the reign of Emperor Li Heng, Du Fu departed Tianshui to Feilong gorge. The humble thatched cottage was built on the west side of the gorge, on the shaded side slope of the mountain. Therefore this thatched cottage provided the proof for the sage of poet Du Fu’s refuge here in Longnan. And from here, he moved on to the south, heading for Sichuan Province. Du Fu produced many excellent poems in the cottage.

The Memorial Hall was built on the original site of the thatched cottage to commemorate this outstanding personage in Chinese literature. From then on, it was renovated and enlarged repeatedly during the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and during the Republic of China. Then it begun to take the shape of a solemn and serene landscape. Within the thatched cottage, there are more than 10 steles and poem stone tablets including the poem tablet inscribed by Yuwen Zizhen in the 4th year of the Shaoxi period under the reign of Emperor Zhao Dun in the Song Dynasty. Two poem tablets were set up separately in the 9th and 19th year of Jiajing period under the reign of Emperor Zhu Houcong. The stone tablet was set up in the 47th year of Wanli period under the reign of Emperor Zhu Yijun, of the Ming Dynasty. After the reconstruction and expanding by Chengxian County government in recent years, the thatched cottage provides the ideal landscape with solemnity and simplicity for people to commemorate the sage of Chinese Poems, Du Fu.

Travel Tips
Add: 3 km away from downtown Chengxian County,Longnan City of Gansu Province
Opening Hours: 08:00-18:00
Entrance Fee: CNY 30