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In the winter of the year 759, Du Fu, together with his family（安史之乱）. In the next spring, he set up a straw﹣roofed house Chengdu Thatched Cottage（草堂）, where he lived for about four years and wrote more than 240. After Du Fu died, the Thatched Cottage quickly fell into disrepair. Wei Zhuang, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty. Thereafter, the Thatched Cottage has continued to be repaired and enlarged throughout the Song, Yuan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Du Fu Thatched Cottage also experienced large﹣scale renovations（大规模的修复） and since then it has been to the public. Nowadays, the Thatched Cottage has an area of 800 mu.
Nature, love for his family and friendship found expression in many of the poems. It might be due to his life as a semi﹣hermit（半隐士）, there were poems directly describing the people's life. But deep in his heart, Du Fu neverthe serious situation and the physical and mental pain of the people. So when his Thatched Cottage was destroyed by the autumn wind, he could not help thinking of those people. He prayed to God that he could give up his Thatched Cottage and even life if he could offer the poor warmth and. That is the spirit of Du Fu's poems and the Thatched Cottage. by the spirit, people have rebuilt the Thatched Cottage generation after generation, turning it into a monument to the spirit of Du Fu and the sacred land of Chinese literature.
