Chengdu Thatched Cottage Huanhua Walk
A 3.5 km flat loop linking the Thatched Cottage memorial halls, the reconstructed cottage and the Huanhua Brook wetlands.
“Could I but get ten thousand spacious mansions, to shelter all poor scholars under heaven and make them smile!”
「安得广厦千万间，大庇天下寒士俱欢颜。」
This short loop threads the garden rebuilt on the site where Du Fu lived from 760 to 765. It is not a dramatic walk. Its power lies in its ordinariness: a bamboo grove, a reed channel, a stone tablet with a poem about a leaking roof. Walk it slowly and notice that the man who wrote the empire's most generous line about housing had just lost his own.
这条环线穿过杜甫于公元760至765年居住的草堂旧址园林，没有险峻山色，力量藏在平常里：一丛翠竹、一段芦溪、一块刻着漏屋之诗的石碑。走得慢一些，你会注意到——写下「大庇天下寒士」这句最慷慨的诗时，他刚刚失去了自己的房子。
Thatched Cottage Main Gate草堂正门
WGS-84: 30.6605°N, 104.0265°EThe threshold of the only home Du Fu ever owned. He arrived in 760 fleeing the An Lushan rebellion, built a hut beside the Huanhua Brook, and stayed five years.
Inscription: 万里桥西一草堂，百花潭水即沧浪。
Hall of the Great Officer大廨与史诗堂
WGS-84: 30.6620°N, 104.0290°EBronze and stone portraits of the poet, plus the chronological gallery of his 1,400 surviving poems. This is where visitors first grasp how much of his life was spent in motion and loss.
Inscription: 读书破万卷，下笔如有神。
Reconstructed Thatched Cottage茅屋故居
WGS-84: 30.6638°N, 104.0312°EA thatched room standing in for the cottage whose roof was torn off by an autumn gale in 761—the night that produced the most generous housing poem ever written in Chinese.
Inscription: 安得广厦千万间，大庇天下寒士俱欢颜。
Canglang Lake, Huanhua Brook浣花溪沧浪湖
WGS-84: 30.6655°N, 104.0345°EReed beds and egrets at the edge of the memorial grounds—the landscape Du Fu could see from his door, still intact inside a city of twenty million.
Inscription: 两个黄鹂鸣翠柳，一行白鹭上青天。